A wine bar owner in Santa Barbara County is facing four criminal charges for keeping his business open during the state’s pandemic restrictions, making him one of the few business owners in California formally charged by the state for defying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home orders. Kurt Hixenbaugh, 49, and his wife, Dawn, have owned Vino…
Wine Bar Owner Faces Criminal Charges Over COVID-19 Violations
May 5, 2021
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Suspect Arrested After 2 Asian American Women Stabbed in San Francisco
Police say they have arrested a man who stabbed two women in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon. The women were Asian American and were 65 and 85 years old, according to police. A 54-year-old San Francisco man was arrested on suspicion of committing the attack several hours later, police told the station. The alleged attacker’s…
Sacramento Proposes Record-High Police Budget Amid Calls to ‘Defund the Police’
The city of Sacramento has unveiled a record-high police budget of $165.8 million, despite the creation of a new department that would shift certain responsibilities away from law enforcement. In the face of cries from certain groups to “defund the police” across California and the United States, Sacramento City Manager Howard Chan has proposed to…
Former US Marine Sends Care Packages to Troops
May 2, 2021
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Former U.S. Marine Si Tenenberg is still on a mission: to ensure American soldiers serving overseas receive vital supplies. Over the past 15 years, the 86-year-old resident of San Luis Obispo, California, has sent over 22,000 care packages to soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Korea, Turkey, Germany and elsewhere. “You name it—wherever our troops are…
76000 California Violent, Repeat Felons Get Earlier Releases
May 1, 2021
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California is giving 76,000 inmates, including violent and repeat felons, the opportunity to leave prison earlier.
‘Leaders That Won’t Respond’: Ashli Babbitt’s Mother to Travel to Sacramento to Protest
Ashli Babbitt’s mother announced she’s going on a “Mother’s Day journey” on a Twitter account dedicated to her daughter, who was fatally shot during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. “On January 6th, 2021 Ashli Babbitt was murdered in the United States Capitol in front of the world. Ashli was my daughter and I miss her…
Blighted San Francisco Diagnoses Its ‘Perilous Trifecta’—and Bungles the Cure
April 30, 2021
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San Francisco is coming undone. In recent years, the city has manifested a series of visible and persistent inequalities, with a spoils-to-the-victor world for its technological elite, and a chaotic, brutalized world for its dispossessed. In the city’s Tenderloin district, men openly hawk drugs on the street corners, desperate addicts are crumpled across the sidewalks,…
Newsom Hails Federal Moves to Let California Set Tougher Vehicle Emissions Standards
April 27, 2021
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday praised the Biden administration’s announcement that it was moving to restore California’s emissions waiver, a policy shift that would let the state set more stringent emission standards for cars and SUVs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Monday announced that it is considering overturning a Trump-era action called the…
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Religious Liberty Dispute Between California, Texas
April 26, 2021
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The Supreme Court said on April 26 it won’t hear a dispute between Texas and California over the latter’s ban on state-funded business travel to the Lone Star State. The nation’s top court delivered the decision in an unsigned order. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in February 2020 asked the Supreme Court to strike down California’s ban…
Bay Area Falun Gong Practitioners Commemorate Peaceful Appeal
SAN FRANCISCO—Bay Area Falun Gong practitioners held a rally in front of the Ferry Building on April 24 to commemorate an anniversary and to raise awareness that the meditation discipline Falun Gong is still being persecuted in China today. On April 25, 1999, around 10,000 people gathered peacefully at the Chinese communist headquarters at Zhongnanhai…
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