[vemba-video id=”politics/2021/03/16/gavin-newsom-dinner-covid-19-lead-vpx.cnn”] The organizers of the effort to recall California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom turned in their final batches of signature petitions to the registrars of the Golden State’s 58 counties on Wednesday. Now they wait as county and state officials determine whether they have collected the 1,495,709 valid signatures they need to qualify the recall election…… MORE
Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., is taking the campaign to kick him out of office seriously, trying to frame his opponents’ recall effort as an extension of the divisive 2020 presidential fight while preparing for a media blitz, and assembling a political A-team to steer him safely through it. Republicans nationwide view the California recall as their best chance to…… MORE
Multiple public schools and teachers’ unions in California at one point discussed using some of the federal and state funding for COVID-19 relief to provide teachers with bonuses, according to The Daily Mail. The group Reopen California Schools shared memos with the Daily Mail that appear to show discussions on how to use the relief…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Los Angeles police say an officer has been wounded and a gunman killed during a standoff near the University of Southern California. The gunman died at an Exposition Park home Tuesday afternoon. Police Chief Michel Moore says the man’s family reported he’d fired a rifle into the air. Moore says the…… MORE
ONTARIO, Calif. (AP) – Authorities say two people were killed when a fireworks stash exploded in inland Southern California, setting a house on fire, blowing out windows across the neighborhood, and sending up a huge plume of smoke. Multiple blasts were reported around midday in Ontario, east of Los Angeles. TV news footage showed at…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California would start licensing law enforcement officers, create a way to end their careers for misbehavior including racial bias, and make it easier to sue under an expanded version of state Senate legislation that died at the end of last year’s legislative session. Law enforcement groups say the proposal lacks due…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The family of a 61-year-old California inmate who died of the coronavirus sued state corrections officials Tuesday. The family blames a botched transfer of infected inmates to San Quentin State Prison that killed 28 inmates and a correctional officer last year. His family’s attorneys said it’s the first such federal civil…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former Republican congressman Doug Ose says he’s entering the California recall election aimed at ousting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Ose becomes the third established Republican to enter the race, joining former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and businessman John Cox. Ose is a businessman from the Sacramento area who says he’s…… MORE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California’s Democratic-controlled state Legislature is considering making it more difficult for local election officials to disqualify ballots. Voters who cast ballots by mail must now sign their ballot. Election officials then compare that signature to the one in the voter’s file. Officials can reject ballots when the signatures don’t match. Temporary…… MORE
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Race and ethnicity can be tricky topics to discuss, especially in the classroom. But the California Department of Education had no idea how heated the debate would get when it set out to draft a model ethnic studies curriculum for high schools across the state. After several years and nearly 100,000…… MORE
