Category: Northern California

Some California Hospital Workers Plan to Defy Sept. 30 Vaccine Deadline

More than 70 employees at a hospital in Monterey, Calif., have decided to defy a state mandate requiring health workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 30. Elisabeth Sims, a registered nurse at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) told The Epoch Times the group of nurses and other medical professionals are planning…


Ancient Mysteries Await at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California, contains a wealth of ancient treasures—the largest such collection in western North America. Not only does the museum house artifacts from the Pre-Dynastic to early Islamic era, it also has exhibits on non-Egyptian Assyrian, Babylonian, and Sumerian periods. Four large galleries—the Afterlife, Daily Life, Rulers, and Religion—tempt…


California Gov. Newsom Facing Recall as Voters Hit the Polls

California Gov. Gavin Newsom ended his campaign to keep his job as voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to determine whether he should be recalled and potentially replaced by another candidate. Newsom, a Democrat, recently received support from heavyweight members of his own party, including President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Vice…


Allegations Fly From Rose McGowan as Recall Vote Looms in California

LOS ANGELES—In a blitz of TV ads and a last-minute rally, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom urged voters Sunday to turn back a looming recall vote that could remove him from office, while leading Republican Larry Elder broadly criticized the media for what he described as double standards that insulated Newsom from criticism and scrutiny…


Drought Has Farmworkers Dreaming of Escape From California’s Breadbasket

By Priscella Vega From Los Angeles Times Rosario Rodríguez never wanted to leave her hometown of Trigomil, Nayarit. She was surrounded by family and could quickly get to the nearest grocery store or clinic. But love called, and she followed her then-boyfriend to Three Rocks—a speck in Fresno County where he worked in the fields….


House Democrat Says Speaker Pelosi’s District Should Get More Funds Than Others

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Thursday argued in favor of allocating more taxpayer funds to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Ca.) district than other districts, sparking immediate pushback from Republicans. Cohen made the argument as House lawmakers on the House Natural Resources Committee continued to clash on day two of the budget reconciliation markup meeting. Cohen’s remarks came…


Harris Rallies for California Governor Facing Recall Election

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday returned to her home state of California to campaign for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faces a recall election in the country’s most populous state. Harris appeared with Newsom in San Leandro and urged voters to vote against the recall effort. The area is not far from Oakland, where…


Is Your AI Woke?

Commentary At its core, artificial intelligence involves statistical discrimination; that is, AI algorithms extract decision-making insights from statistical information. In contrast to run-of-the-mill statistical discrimination techniques, AI algorithms are able to “learn” through a process that involves training on data. The key to the success of AI is that the algorithms can generalize from the…


Vote Fraud and Black Hat Testing

Commentary In the early days of the present century, there was something of a moral panic on the left concerning computerized voting systems. Supposedly, some of these systems were developed by people with known rightwing tendencies, and the software was vulnerable to tampering— undoubtedly by those pesky Russians. It was even suggested that George W….


Schwarzenegger: California Recall Not a GOP ‘Power Grab’

The man ushered into office after the last California recall election proved successful in unseating the sitting governor says the current recall is not a “power grab” by Republicans and that the atmosphere this time around reminds him of what unfolded in 2003. “Almost half of the people that are running are not Republicans. So…