Tag: Policies & Impacts

The Exodus From the San Francisco Bay Area

News Analysis SAN FRANCISCO—San Franciscans started to feel the impact of a massive exodus starting with the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing as crime skyrocketed more recently. Residents have found that there are not as many people walking the streets downtown now. Usually there are more tourists than office workers, even during lunch break. No more crowds…


California Could Lose Most Populous Status in 20 Years, Caltrans Predicts Population Decline Through 2050

Estimates released by the California Department of Transportation show the exodus out of the state continuing, with the population expected to decline from about 39 million today to approximately 35.7 million by 2050. The transportation department began analyzing populations to guide road and highway planning and development in 2000. Orange County’s population is expected to…


US Must Defend Its Pacific Territories Against Chinese Threat: Former NSC Director

In light of the growing influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Indo-Pacific, it is imperative for the United States to devote as much attention to the defense of its Pacific territories as it does to the defense of its states, said a former National Security Council (NSC) director during an oversight hearing…


‘Millions of Lives Lost’ in Pandemic Mainly From Pharma-Government Nexus, Says Critical Care Expert

Dr. Pierre Kory, a pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist, is blaming the nexus between the pharma industry and the government along with corrupt medical journals for deceiving the public about COVID-19 and vaccines, which resulted in “millions of lives lost.” “I always knew pharma was bad. I didn’t understand that they are literally a…


Justice Gorsuch Slams COVID Emergency Powers: ‘Greatest Intrusions on Civil Liberties’ in ‘Peacetime History’

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday lamented what he calls an intrusion into civil liberties by pandemic emergency decrees since the start of COVID-19 as the high court dismissed a suit on Title 42 as moot. “Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of…


Troubling Trend: Marijuana Use Among US Workers Jumps To Historic Highs

American workers using marijuana on the job rose to a “historic” high last year, according to a new study. Diagnostic information service Quest Diagnostics released a report on May 18, analyzing over 6 million employee urine samples in 2022, and found that 4.3 percent of them were positive for cannabis, up from 3.9 percent in 2021….


The MAGA Battle Between Trump and DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his run for president in 2024 sometime next week. On Thursday, he took a swipe at former President Donald Trump, allegedly saying during a private call to donors that he’s the only one who could beat President Joe Biden. Yet his poll numbers are looking rough, as…


[PREMIERING NOW]: The MAGA Battle Between Trump and DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to announce his run for president in 2024 sometime next week. On Thursday, he took a swipe at former President Donald Trump, allegedly saying during a private call to donors that he’s the only one who could beat President Joe Biden. Yet his poll numbers are looking rough, as…


House Bill Would Help Farmers Get Soil Data From Satellites

Proponents of precision agriculture hope to dodge the often scary and complex debates about the potential merits and menaces of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by making their evolving science a meat-and-potatoes issue. And Congress appears to be among those supporters with the House in April overwhelmingly adopting its second precision agriculture measure in five years. In…


Supreme Court Rules IRS Can Secretly Grab Bank Records of Outside Parties

The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in a delinquent taxpayer case that it is lawful for the IRS to secretly summons the bank records of third parties. In other words, the nation’s highest court recognized that the Internal Revenue Service is not required to notify third parties who are not under investigation when seeking a…