Category: Northern California

California Man Pleads Guilty to Impersonating Spokesperson of Newsom Recall Campaign

June 23, 2023
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A San Bruno man has pleaded guilty to impersonating the former spokesman and senior advisor for Recall Newsom 2020, an organization that led the unsuccessful effort to remove California Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. Henry Kuhn, 37, reached a plea deal with the Riverside County District Attorney that allowed him to avoid jail but was…

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Home Prices Down Nearly 17 Percent in San Francisco, Erasing More Than $330 Billion in Value

June 22, 2023
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San Francisco’s housing market has retreated from record highs last April, with sales volume collapsing and pricing down double digits—approximately five times the decline recorded nationally. Prices fell 3.3 percent across the country since last year, with values in San Francisco plummeting 16.7 percent, according to Redfin—an online real estate listing company. This decline represents…

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Home Prices Down 17 Percent in San Francisco, Erasing More Than $330 Billion in Value

June 22, 2023
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San Francisco’s housing market has retreated from record highs last April, with sales volume collapsing and pricing down double digits—approximately five times the decline recorded nationally. Prices fell 3.3 percent across the country since last year, with values in San Francisco plummeting 16.7 percent, according to Redfin—an online real estate listing company. This decline represents…

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California 95 Percent out of Drought, Major Reservoirs Overflowing

June 22, 2023
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The historic barrage of storms this winter offered some breathing room for California’s extreme dry conditions, with 95 percent of the state now reported to be out of drought, according to the newest drought monitor map, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Climate Prediction Center, released June 13. The update showed that now…

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California Drought Is Over, Major Reservoirs Overflowing

June 22, 2023
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The historic barrage of storms this winter offered some breathing room for California’s extreme dry conditions, with 95 percent of the state now reported to be out of drought, according to the newest drought monitor map, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Climate Prediction Center, released June 13. The update showed that now…

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California Leaders Demand More ‘Diversity,’ LGBT Themes in Schools

June 22, 2023
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California leaders demand more “diversity” in education, including LGBT themes, and vow more oversight for resisting school boards. California’s Department of Education and legislators joined forces and came together on Wednesday to call on textbook publishers to commit to producing educational resources and materials “free from discrimination and inclusive of the diverse narratives that reflect the…

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Why California’s Schools Are Losing Their Teachers, Part IV

June 22, 2023
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Commentary Operating schools is a business, not something governments do. Public sector enterprises and public sector employees are less creative than the private sector, almost by definition, and are not capable of running a school district. This is why until 1890, when progressives created what we have today (amalgamated public school districts), all U.S. schools…

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Man Arrested for Allegedly Starting California’s Devastating 2022 Oak Fire

June 22, 2023
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CAL FIRE announced the arrest of Edward Wackerman of Mariposa County for allegedly starting last year’s Oak Fire that ravaged California’s Yosemite National Park area. “This fire has become the most devastating fire in Mariposa’s history. And as a community, we stay engaged to support one another,” said Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese at a…

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California Is Cooperating in China’s Eco-Scams

June 22, 2023
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Commentary One of the persons with the best insights into what’s going on inside the People’s Republic of China is Winston Sterzel and his YouTube channel. He lived there for 13 years until leaving in 2019 after he received death threats. On June 15, he shared a video of a massive field of electric cars…

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California Bill Allowing Minors to Consent to Mental Health Care Stirs Controversy Amid Gender Ideology Debate

June 21, 2023
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The California senate judiciary committee has voted in favor of controversial proposed legislation that opponents involved in the national debate over gender ideology have called “child emancipation” and “state sanctioned kidnapping.” State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Assemblywoman Wendy Carillo (D-Los Angeles), the authors of Assembly Bill 665, claim the criticisms of the bill…

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