To meet its zero-emissions goals, Los Angeles and Long Beach ports will start charging fossil fuel trucks an extra fee on April 1 to pick up or drop off shipping containers.
Category: California
California town declares Independence from “dictatorship powers” Of State, Federal COVID mandates
A town in California has declared itself a “constitutional republic,” independent of executive orders issued by the federal or state governments, in protest of lockdowns, mask mandates and compulsory vaccinations.
Mass looting moves to Democrat Suburb
A looting spree in the San Francisco Bay Area continued for a second straight night on Saturday — this time, reaching the suburbs.
Gavin Newsom slammed with more accusations of hypocrisy after revealin his daughter isn’t vaccinated
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is embroiled in another controversy accusing him of hypocrisy surrounding his own COVID-19 orders. The California governor admitted that his daughter is not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 despite enacting a sweeping mandate requiring students to get the coronavirus vaccine.
PG&E charged With 4 counts of manslaughter, 11 felonies stemming from 2020 Zogg fire
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) was sued by the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office on Friday over 31 charges, including 11 felonies and 4 counts of manslaughter, stemming from the Zogg Fire last year.
LA Times columnist: Larry Elder is “Black Face of White Supremacy”
The Los Angeles Times published a column Friday by Erika D. Smith declaring that conservative talk radio host Larry Elder is the “black face of white supremacy.”
Elder is leading polls among likely replacements for incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is facing a Sep. 14 recall election.
$2.7 billion bond fund sits idle in California
“That money is held up because of environmental permitting,” said Republican state Sen. Jim Nielsen, who has the Oroville Dam in his district. “The construction [overseers] said it will be six more years before we have water in that lake. Meanwhile, not one gallon of water has been placed in above-ground storage pursuant to this bond measure.”
U.S. Judge overturns California’s 32 year ban on “assault weapons”
A federal judge has overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, calling it a “failed experiment” that violates people’s constitutional right to bear arms.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled on Friday that the state’s definition of illegal military-style rifles unlawfully deprives law-abiding Californians of weapons commonly allowed in most other states and by the U.S. Supreme Court.
California releasing 63,000 violet felons back onto the streets in effort to make “prisons safer”
Of those who are set to be released, nearly 20,000 are serving life sentences. Another 10,000 inmates were convicted for serious nonviolent offenses who have served half of their initial sentence.
Fund the police: LA County increases police funding by $36 million after defund movement backfires
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted Thursday to boost its contracts with law enforcement by $36 million through the end of this year amid a spike in crime across the city.
