Category: Northern California

Competing School Choice Initiatives Planned for California’s 2022 Election

Commentary When asked why one should vote to recall Governor Newsom, one response that seems to come up most frequently is that his four children are attending a private school. While Newsom is kowtowing to the public-school teachers’ unions and shutting down educational opportunities this past year for some 6 million children, he can afford…


Up to 30 California Students Stuck in Afghanistan After US Pullout: Officials

Up to 30 schoolchildren from California are stuck in Afghanistan after U.S. troops pulled out of the country, school district officials confirmed to The Epoch Times. Twenty-seven students from 19 families who go to school in the San Juan Unified School District are in Afghanistan, a spokeswoman for the district said in an email on…


Chinese Branch of US Company Issues Fake Reports Triggering Product Recalls in South Korea

A Chinese branch of a U.S.-based multinational electronics testing company has been issuing fake reports for China-made goods entering the South Korean market for eight years, Korean media reported as a massive recall of products was announced. The recall impacted 1,696 products sold by 378 companies in South Korea, Korean media reported. The top three companies with…


4.1 Million Californians ‘Not At All Confident’ About Next Rent or Mortgage Payment

Commentary Over 4.1 million Californians live in households where the primary rent-payer or mortgage-payer is “not at all confident” they can pay their next rent or mortgage payment. This is more than 10 percent of the entire state population living in such households. The entire city of Los Angeles is only 3.99 million persons. More…


Wildfire Forces Thousands to Flee Popular Lake Tahoe Resort

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—Thousands of people rushed to get out of South Lake Tahoe as the entire tourist resort city came under evacuation orders and wildfire raced toward the large freshwater lake of Lake Tahoe, which straddles California and Nevada. Evacuation warnings issued for the resort city of 22,000 on Sunday turned into orders Monday….


County Supervisors Blame Bad Policies—Not Climate Change—for California Wildfires

Ineffective forest management policies are much more to blame than climate change for the massive destruction from wildfires in recent years in California, says Sierra County Supervisor Raul Roen. Fighting wildfires, he said, has morphed into a “self-sustaining” industrial complex, he told The Epoch Times. “It is out of control. The intent is no longer…


Hurricane Nora Forms; on Track to Skirt Along Mexico’s Coast

MEXICO CITY—Hurricane Nora formed early Saturday in the eastern Pacific on a forecast track that would bring it near the Puerto Vallarta area and then head toward a close encounter with resorts at the tip of Baja California Peninsula. Nora had maximum sustained winds of 75 mph Saturday morning, with tropical storm force winds extending…


Prominent Democratic Candidate Rebukes CNN’s Claim Newsom Faces No Democrats

Earlier this week, CNN published an article claiming California’s governor faces no Democrats in the coming gubernatorial recall race. After FOX News and other news outlets reported on the article, CNN changed a sentence in their report from “no Democrats are competing against their own party’s governor” to “no party-backed Democrats are competing … .”…


California Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Overhaul Death Penalty

The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state’s current death penalty law, dismissing an attempt to make it harder to impose a sentence. Under the current system, jurors do not need to unanimously agree on specific aggravating factors used to justify handing an individual a death sentence. The court upheld the longstanding practice in…


San Jose Passes Vaccine Mandate for Indoor City Events

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The San Jose City Council unanimously passed Mayor Sam Liccardo’s urgency ordinance on Aug. 24. The ordinance will require all attendees and staff at events in city-owned facilities to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination prior to entry, and it will not offer an option to use a negative COVID-19 test instead. At the…