SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s embattled unemployment benefits agency has cleared about 246,000 of its more than 1.6 million backlog in claims. The agency said Wednesday it has started accepting new unemployment benefit applications after a two-week “reset” where it updated its technology. But Employment Development Department Executive Director Sharon Hilliard said the backlog won’t…… MORE
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Farmers More Optimistic
U.S. agricultural producers became more optimistic again in September. The Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer climbed to 156, the highest reading for the index since the pandemic began last winter and 12 points higher than one-month earlier. Since July, the index is up 38 points and is 60 points higher than its 2020…… MORE
Calif. Sees No Link From School Openings to Virus Spread
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California has not seen a link between the reopening of K-12 schools for in-person learning and increased coronavirus transmission. Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s top public health official, said Tuesday it can take time for trends to emerge, but so far the results are encouraging. California requires counties to report coronavirus…… MORE
Suspect Identified, Wanted in Deadly Fresno Shooting
FRESNO, CA (KMJ) — Fresno Police identified the man they say is responsible for a deadly shooting in Southeast Fresno as 25-year-old Andrew Levi Hammond. Hammond is accused of killing 41-year-old Fernando Gonzalez. Just before 10:00 pm, back on Monday, September 28, Fresno PD’s ShotSpotter pinged six rounds fired in the 4600 Block of…… MORE
Rock Legend Eddie Van Halen dies at 65 of Cancer
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August Complex Wildfire Now Termed a “Gigafire”
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Wildfires have gotten so extreme in recent years that experts have had to coin new terms to describe their increasingly massive scale. Enter the “gigafire” — a term for a blaze that burns at least a million acres of land and a level above the “megafire,” which burns more than 100,000 acres.…… MORE
October is Cal Farmer & Farmworker Month
An agriculture industry promotional effort known as CA Grown is celebrating and highlighting the work of California’s farmers, farmworkers, and everyone whose work helps to keep the food supply chain flowing during the month of October.. According to a CA Grown press release “This month was born out of the desire to thank our farmers…… MORE
Group Sues to Block Calif. Boardroom Diversity Law
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A conservative legal group has sued the state of California over a new law that will require hundreds of California-based corporations to have directors from racial or sexual minorities on their boards. Judicial Watch said Monday that its lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court claims the law is unconstitutional. Gov. Gavin…… MORE
Cattle Markets Bill Introduced
South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson introduced the Price Reform in Cattle Economics Act. The House Ag Committee member says the bill would increase transparency in the cattle market, as well as improve risk management for producers and support new and existing meat processors. The Hagstrom Report says he wrote the bill as a response…… MORE
