Category: Northern California

Newsom Lifts Freeze on UC Berkeley Enrollment

March 18, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this week overturned a recent Supreme Court ruling that would have required the University of California (UC)–Berkeley to deny admission to about 3,000 students after they had already received acceptance letters. Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 118 into law on March 14—a bill that passed unanimously both in the…

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Professor Objects to UC Schools Allowing Academic Departments to Issue Political Statements

March 17, 2022
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Entire departments in the University of California system may be allowed to take political sides in what could be a massive policy change to neutral education institutions, but UC professor Ethan Miller is opposed to the idea. Miller, a professor of computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, told NTD Television that the proposed change in…

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California’s State of Emergency Is Hurting, Not Helping: Republican Lawmakers

March 16, 2022
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As an effort to end California’s state of emergency recently failed in a senate committee hearing, Republican lawmakers are arguing that extending the state of emergency is now unjustified and hurting people’s livelihoods when most of the COVID-19-related mandates enacted without the state legislature’s approval are waning. “Regrettably, my SCR 5 [Senate Concurrent Resolution 5]…

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California Lawmakers Reject Measure to End Newsom’s Emergency Powers

March 16, 2022
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California lawmakers on March 15 voted down a measure that would have ended the emergency powers Gov. Gavin Newsom has been wielding for over two years. Eight members of the California Senate Committee on Governmental Organization voted against the measure, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5. Four members voted in favor. The measure, if approved, would end the…

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LGBTQ Activists Face Rare Defeat in Florida

March 15, 2022
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Commentary LGBTQ activists are enraged at Florida’s legislature for passing the “Parental Rights in Education” bill, which they mislabel the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The bill seeks to ban teachers from instructing students about sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Few believe children of this age (five to eight years old)…

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Major League Baseball Narrowly Survives Latest Suicide Attempt

March 15, 2022
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Commentary After a final week of intense negotiations, Major League Baseball (MLB) decided not to commit suicide and decided to actually “play ball.” I’ve played baseball since I was four years old, starting with T-Ball, into coach pitch, and then becoming a pitcher myself. All the while, I watched greats like Will Clark and Barry…

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San Francisco Mayor’s “Welcome Back to SF Pledge” Needs More Substance

March 15, 2022
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Commentary On March 3, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced the “Welcome Back to SF pledge”—a commitment by large private employers to return their workforce to offices in several areas of the city by the end of March. When we first heard about this, we thought, “Terrific!” and pored over the press coverage for the…

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[PREMIERING 7:30PM ET] ‘Crime Is Coming to the Suburbs’—Larry Elder on Rise in Robberies, Homicides, and Homeless Encampments in California

March 15, 2022
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“When you’re finding these smash-and-grabs taking place at Neiman Marcus and these high-end stores, all of a sudden, people on the left are beginning to rethink their assumptions.” At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference, I sat down with Larry Elder, host of the Larry Elder Show on Epoch TV, to discuss California’s rise in…

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‘Crime Is Coming to the Suburbs’—Larry Elder on Rise in Robberies, Homicides, and Homeless Encampments in California

March 15, 2022
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“When you’re finding these smash-and-grabs taking place at Neiman Marcus and these high-end stores, all of a sudden, people on the left are beginning to rethink their assumptions.” At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference, I sat down with Larry Elder, host of the Larry Elder Show on EpochTV, to discuss California’s rise in crime,…

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California Teacher Finds New Calling Amidst Pandemic Mandates

March 14, 2022
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As California lifted its school mask mandate and schools began to consider whether to modify their individual mask rules, one educator from Shasta County reflected on how the pandemic and school mask mandates led her to create her own education program. “I believed that I was harming students by forcing the masks on them. I…

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