Walk for Life West Coast held its 19th annual rally and walk in San Francisco on Jan. 21, one day before the 50th anniversary of the historical Roe V. Wade decision. The event started with a rally at Civic Center Plaza outside City Hall with two stages and several speakers. Then participants walked through the city…
Art Exhibit Shows Award-Winning Documentary ‘Eternal Spring’ at Reception
MILPITAS, Calif.—The Classical Arts Foundation, a nonprofit aiming to preserve and nurture the classical arts, hosted a reception and showing for the award-winning film “Eternal Spring” at the Milpitas library on Jan. 21, ahead of the Lunar New Year. The reception and film showing was part of the foundation’s art exhibit inside the library. “The…
Californians for Equal Rights Foundation to Release Rebuttal Responding to PTA’s ‘Myth Busters’
Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), a nonprofit group focusing on equal rights and merit, is planning to release a rebuttal against a document titled “Myth Busters” that was published by a parent-teacher association (PTA) group. The Palomar Council PTA JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Committee published “Myth Busters” in December 2022. It lists…
Prosecutors: Convicted CEO Elizabeth Holmes Is a Flight Risk
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk and shouldn’t be allowed to stay out of prison while she appeals her 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors, federal prosecutors said in court documents. Holmes had a one-way plane ticket to Mexico booked for Jan. 26, 2022, three weeks after being convicted by a jury on…
Study Finds Increased Lead Exposure in Children Living Near California Airport
A new study from Colorado State University found that lead levels in the blood of children living near airports are higher due to the leaded gasoline of aircraft. According to the study, 4 million Americans live within about 547 yards (500 meters) of an airport that has aircraft using leaded fuel, and 170,000 such aircraft…
Biden Tours Beach Town Damaged by California Storms
CAPITOLA, Calif.—President Joe Biden walked along the splintered boardwalk of this picture-postcard California beach town Thursday and heard from business owners struggling to repair damage to their shops after deadly storms caused devastation across the region and killed more than 20 people statewide. Biden toured a gutted seafood restaurant and the badly flooded Paradise Beach Grille, not…
Behind California’s Skyrocketing Natural Gas Bills
Californians are expecting skyrocketing natural gas bills this month, but this can’t all be blamed on the weather, according to industry insiders. Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), which serves about 5.9 million households and businesses, warned customers to expect “shockingly high” January bills that could be 128 percent higher compared to December. Those who typically…
What’s Behind California’s Skyrocketing Natural Gas Bills: Insiders
Californians are expecting skyrocketing natural gas bills this month, but this can’t all be blamed on the weather, according to industry insiders. Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), which serves about 5.9 million households and businesses, warned customers to expect “shockingly high” January bills that could be 128 percent higher compared to December. Those who typically…
Parsing Gov. Newsom’s Second Inaugural Address
Commentary Almost every California governor or senator looks longingly at the White House. According to biographer Ian Halperin, even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did so and was planning a national movement to excise the Constitution’s requirement that the president be born in the United States. So at this point in his carefully planned career, Gov. Gavin…
Election Integrity Watchdog Finds California Lost 10.9 Million Mail-In Ballots in 2022 Midterms
An election integrity group said 10.9 million out of a total 22.1 million ballots that had been mailed out to registered voters during the 2022 midterm elections went “unaccounted for,” according to a Jan. 18 report. “Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap,” the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) said on Monday. “The public cannot…
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