Tag: Southern California

California Bill to Ban School Boards From Abruptly Firing Administrators Advances

April 29, 2023
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California state senators advanced a bill last week that aims to discourage newly-elected school board majorities from terminating their head administrators—after two Southern California school boards recently opted to fire superintendents just weeks after they took office. State Senate Bill 494 would require board members to wait a minimum of 30 days after they are…

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University of California–Irvine to Construct Nation’s First All-Electric Hospital by 2025

April 28, 2023
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The University of California–Irvine is set to finish construction on a new health center—fully electric and solar-powered with diesel fuel generator backups—by 2025. It will be the first all-electric hospital in the country. “UCI Health is building the next chapter of healthcare in Orange County,” UCI Health CEO Chad. T. Lefteris said in a 2021…

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Surfers Hall of Fame to Add 3 Icons to Its Ranks in Huntington Beach

April 28, 2023
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Just across from the Huntington Beach Pier several people walked April 27 over the hand and feet pressings of surfing legends. As part of the city’s “Surfers Hall of Fame,” the impressions have grown from their initial location in 1997 at the entryway to Huntington Beach Surf and Sport shop and now reach…

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San Clemente City Councilman Resigns, Moves to Wyoming

April 28, 2023
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San Clemente City Councilman Gene James announced his resignation from the council in an April 26 farewell letter. His last day was April 28. James, whose term was set to expire next November, said in the letter he plans to sell his home on Avenida Del Verdor in San Clemente and move to Wyoming where…

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California Bill Targets Faith-Based Foster Parents Over ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ Opponents Say

April 28, 2023
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Opponents of a bill that would require all foster parents in California to “affirm” the chosen gender identities of children in their care have called the proposed legislation an attack on constitutionally protected religious freedom and parental rights. State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced the proposed legislation, Senate Bill (SB) 407, told the…

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New California Gold Rush Coming as Record Snowpack Melts

April 28, 2023
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Gold isn’t raining from the sky in the Golden State, but it might be flooding into the rivers by summer. “Nugget Nick” Prebalick expects the record snowpack in northern California to deposit even more gold in Woods Creek in Tuolumne County, where he shares a claim with his father and son near Jamestown. The family has…

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Superhero Nonprofit Travels the Country to Bring Cheer to Those in Need

April 28, 2023
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After his mother’s death in 2009, one Long Beach, California-based juvenile probation officer channeled his sadness to create a charity spreading cheer and art to those suffering throughout the country, a mission which has now gained him national recognition. Yuri Williams, founder of the nonprofit “A Future Superhero and Friends,” will be honored for his…

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$2.3 Billion Awarded in Sex Abuse Lawsuit That Named Mormon Church

April 28, 2023
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RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A woman who was molested for years by her stepfather has been awarded $2.28 billion by a California jury in a lawsuit that also implicated her mother and the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which both parents were active, her attorneys announced. The panel in Riverside County Superior Court awarded…

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The Western US Remains Divided Over Abortion

April 27, 2023
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Idaho and Utah have continued banning or limiting abortions, while Oregon and California are stockpiling abortion pills. Idaho and Utah were two of the 13 states that had trigger laws to make abortions illegal when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. As soon as Roe v. Wade was overturned, Idaho joined the list of…

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California Committee Holds Special Hearing on Fentanyl Bills, Many in Limbo Again

April 27, 2023
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SACRAMENTO—Six pieces of fentanyl legislation were reconsidered by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on April 27, as the issue of punishment versus prevention took center stage, with the eight-member panel deferring many for later discussion. “It’s a lot of excuse-making, instead of addressing the real problem,” Assemblyman Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale), a committee member, told The…

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