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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday requiring that a mail-in ballot be sent to every registered voter in the state for the presidential election in November. Newsom in May ordered that county elections officials send every voter a mail-in ballot for the November election, citing the health threats of voting in person during the coronavirus …
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California will remove statues of Christopher Columbus and his patron Queen Isabella from the state Capitol rotunda, 137 years after they were installed there. Democratic state legislative leaders announced Tuesday that the marble statues are set to be removed, calling Columbus a “deeply polarizing” figure. “Christopher Columbus is a deeply polarizing historical figure given the deadly impact …
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his partner Grimes were recently forced to alter the spelling of their newborn son’s name to comply with California law, as seen on the baby’s birth certificate obtained by TMZ. The power couple had originally planned to name the newborn “X Æ A-12 Musk,” but were forced to change it …
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Coachella 2020 has reportedly been canceled. After rescheduling its April dates to October due to the coronavirus lockdown, the end has finally come for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Billboard reports. This week, the parent company for Goldenvoice, AEG, laid off 15% of its staffers, furloughed more than 100 people and issued …
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The family of the pilot who flew the helicopter that crashed, killing Kobe Bryant and his daughter in January says the NBA star’s wrongful death trial can’t be held in Los Angeles because jurors there can’t be impartial, according to a report. Widow Vanessa Bryant, who also lost her and Kobe’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna in …
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On January 1, 2020, California Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) went into effect, drastically curtailing Californians’ freedom to work on their own terms as freelancers. The law, which was written by the AFL-CIO, presents many freelancers in the state with only two options: find a permanent employer willing to hire you or find a new line of …
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The University of California is hurting the students it’s trying to help by eliminating objective measures for admissions. On Thursday, the regents of the University of California voted to phase out the SAT and ACT tests as a requirement for admission across all nine of its undergraduate campuses, which make up one of the country’s …
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Silicon Valley-based software company Palantir is following Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lead and openly considering leaving the “increasing intolerance and monoculture” of California, its co-founder said. Speaking during an appearance Monday on “Axios on HBO,” CEO Alex Karp said the company was “getting close” to deciding whether it would leave the Golden State. Karp was …
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Kelly Dodd continued to downplay the coronavirus pandemic via social media over the holiday weekend. On Monday, the “Real Housewives of Orange County” star — who has gotten heat for her controversial comments about COVID-19 — appeared celebratory when she saw mall patrons not wearing face masks while out to eat in her California hometown. …
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The doctor in charge of a Bay Area, Calif. trauma center said the state should end its lockdown orders after an “unprecedented” spike in suicide attempts amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time,” Dr. Mike deBoisblanc, head of trauma at John Muir Medical Center, told …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday requiring that a mail-in ballot be sent to every registered voter in the state for the presidential election in November. Newsom in May ordered that county elections officials send every voter a mail-in ballot for the November election, citing the health threats of voting in person during the coronavirus …
