Category: Northern California

Nonprofit Helps Wives of Peace Officers Find Community, Support, and Marriage Coaching

August 13, 2022
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A nonprofit in California is dedicated to the mission of providing healthy homes for those who serve. Crystal Ienni started Peace Officer Wives of California in 2017. She and her team coach other wives (husbands also welcome) on how to support the mental health and wellbeing of their peace officer partner at home. As a…

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California Trump Supporters Question FBI Raid on Mar-a-Lago

August 13, 2022
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California Republicans are demanding answers about why the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida earlier this week. Republican Congresswomen Michelle Steel and Young Kim, both Californians, questioned the “unprecedented raid” on a former president’s home, while some residents protested at multiple FBI office locations. “I find the lack of information from…

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Summer Splendor at the Historic Filoli House and Garden

August 13, 2022
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“Filoli is too beautiful to be private.”—Lurline Roth In 1975, Lurline Matson Roth gifted her beloved Filoli House and Garden to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. One year later, Filoli, located at 85 Canada Road, Woodside, California, opened to the public. It remains open to this day. The entrance to the Filoli House. (Courtesy…

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California Unveils New Long-Term Strategy to Bolster Water Security

August 12, 2022
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The governor of California on Thursday unveiled a new water-supply strategy that will enhance storing, recycling, and conserving more water that would otherwise go to waste. Gavin Newsom’s (D-Calif.) proposal comes as drought continues to grip the West Coast and the state prepares to lose 10 percent of its water supply by 2040, according to…

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Delta Conveyance Project: Time to Start Moving Dirt and Stop Throwing Mud

August 12, 2022
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Commentary The window may be closing on the Delta Conveyance Project as California slowly slides back to the stone age, while blaming everyone and everything except the organizations and individuals who have perfected the policy of paralysis by analysis. The Delta Conveyance Project would be the completion of the state’s most vulnerable and valuable asset—and…

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Committee Shelves California Bill That Would End Mandated Domestic Violence Reporting by Medical Workers

August 12, 2022
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Legislation to remove mandatory requirements for doctors and other health practitioners to report suspected domestic violence has been shelved by a California senate committee on Aug. 11. Assembly Bill 2790 would remove criminal liability for health care professionals who don’t notify law enforcement when they suspect a patient has been assaulted or abused. Instead, the provider would be required…

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Newsom Nominates New California Supreme Court Chief Justice

August 12, 2022
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom nominated Aug. 11 Supreme Court Associate Justice Patricia Guerrero to serve as the state’s next chief justice following the end of Tani Cantil-Sakauye’s term. If confirmed, Guerrero would become the state’s first Latina to serve in the role, according to Newsom’s office. “Justice Guerrero has established herself as a widely respected…

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California Middle and High Schools Start the Day Later This Year

August 12, 2022
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Middle school and high school students in California will be able to snooze a little longer before heading to class this year, due to a law delaying school start times that takes effect this year. Citing research on the impacts of adolescent sleep deprivation and the benefits of a later school start time, the state…

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Walgreens Prescriptions Added to San Francisco’s Opioid Epidemic: Judge

August 11, 2022
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Walgreens Boots Alliance contributed to the opioid epidemic in San Francisco through its sale of prescription drugs in the city, a federal judge concluded on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said that Walgreens failed to properly investigate suspicious opioid orders for nearly 15 years. The amount the pharmacy chain must pay…

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California: Suicide by Committee

August 11, 2022
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Commentary California is in free-fall. We see the signs and symptoms as we go to work, when we see the news, or when we experience personal loss associated with the intentional destruction of our criminal justice system. Citizens can measure the above through the year-over-year increased rates of assault, rape, and murder. It is incumbent…

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