Category: Northern California

San Francisco Bay Area Doctors Petition to End COVID-19 Restrictions

January 25, 2022
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.—In an open letter and petition to California Governor Gavin Newsom and other state officials, a group of Bay Area doctors called for an end to COVID-19 restrictions. They say the strict policies are harming professional and personal lives, and children also need normalcy in schools again. They called on officials to “acknowledge…

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New Bill Would Mandate COVID-19 Vaccine for All California Schoolchildren

January 25, 2022
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All California school students would be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 under legislation proposed Monday. The proposed bill, titled the Keep Schools Open and Safe Act, would eliminate a personal belief exemption in school-based COVID-19 vaccination requirements. State Sen. Richard Pan, a Democrat, introduced the legislation during a news conference at a Los Angeles…

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PG&E’s Criminal Probation to End Amid Ongoing Safety Worries

January 25, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO—Pacific Gas & Electric is poised to emerge from five years of criminal probation, despite worries that nation’s largest utility remains too dangerous to trust after years of devastation from wildfires ignited by its outdated equipment and neglectful management. The probation, set to expire at midnight Tuesday, was supposed to rehabilitate PG&E after its…

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Forest ‘Resilience’ May Translate to Fewer Trees: Study

January 24, 2022
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Scientists studying forest density in the Sierra Nevada have found that trees there were scarcer but physically larger in 1911 than in 2011, meaning that “resilient” forests could be remarkably thin by today’s standards. “Our findings suggest forests need to be treated more intensively than is often done when just reducing fuels, particularly greater reductions…

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Newsom and Biden Conspire to Implement Open Borders

January 24, 2022
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Commentary America is facing its highest level of illegal border crossings in its history, with likely over two million such crossings since President Biden took office. In the midst of the crisis, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that, thanks to a newfound budget surplus, California will expand free healthcare to all illegal immigrants regardless…

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Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Scrap COVID Vaccine Personal Belief Exemptions for California Students

January 24, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—A California state lawmaker proposed on Jan. 24 to eliminate personal belief exemptions and expand upon a state COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all school students. “We have an opportunity here to keep kids safe,” Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) said Monday during a California Medical Association news conference, where the legislator and pediatrician announced details of the…

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Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Scrap COVID Vaccine Personal Belief Exemption for California Students

January 24, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—A California state lawmaker proposed on Jan. 24 to eliminate personal belief exemptions and expand upon a state COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all school students. “We have an opportunity here to keep kids safe,” Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) said Monday during a California Medical Association news conference, where the legislator and pediatrician announced details of the…

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Proposed Bill Requires All California K-12 Students Get Vaccinated for COVID-19

January 24, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—A bill was introduced Jan. 24 that would require all students K–12 in California to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and eliminate the personal belief exemption. Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a statewide school vaccination mandate, but it will not take effect statewide until a vaccine receives full approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)….

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UCLA CRT Study Itself Shows Why Parents are Revolting

January 24, 2022
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Commentary I’ve read thousands of academic studies, but the worst just came out. Sorry for the excess verbiage in the next two sentences, a trait of modern academics. The title: “The Conflict Campaign: Exploring Local Experiences of the Campaign to Ban ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Public K–12 Education in the U.S., 2020–2021.” It’s published by…

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New Senate Bill to Give California Minors 12 and Older Vaccine Autonomy

January 22, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—California lawmakers introduced a bill on Jan. 20 designed to allow children 12 and older to receive any U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved vaccination, including the recent COVID-19 vaccine, without parental consent. The Teen Choose Vaccines Act, or Senate Bill 866, builds on an existing state law that gives autonomy for…

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