California’s first-in-the-nation task force to identify reparations for African Americans voted Tuesday to limit eligibility to those who can trace their lineage
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- The California budget has new funding to build animal overpasses and underpasses, including $2M to build a tunnel for deer and mountain lions to pass under Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains bit.ly/3jP5Zbl
00:00 - COVID-19 burnout is driving many nurses to quit, and hospital administrators say the state’s new vaccine mandate is compounding the shortage, too. @khwangreports: bit.ly/38dONph
- Breaking: Gavin Newsom will face a recall election later this year, with 1,626,042 valid signatures submitted bit.ly/3aaIVxy
- California was the first state to offer paid leave to parents and caregivers. But many lower-paid workers can’t take advantage, even though money for the program gets taken from their paychecks bit.ly/3r2lpuF
- A new COVID-19 variant, lambda, has arrived in California. The emerging lambda variant has been popping up in the news as it spreads rapidly throughout South America. In California, at least 152 cases have been reported bit.ly/2UfcOst
- Yesterday, Gov. @GavinNewsom defeated the second California recall attempt to remove a governor. Today, Democrats are already starting the push to make recalls more difficult
- Hospitals brace for strikes as California workers protest staff shortages: Almost a third of California hospitals report insufficient numbers of critical workers, including nurses, technicians and janitors
- An entire California town is without running water, in a heat wave: The only functioning well in the rural community of Teviston broke in early June, leaving over 700 residents without running water as temperatures soared to triple-digits in a drought
- California is running out of water
- In the past month, 4 ER nurses have quit at one Eureka hospital, exhausted from the onslaught of patients & emotional turmoil of COVID-19. “On the bad days, I think 'What am I doing and is this what I want to be doing?' It’s shifting me to my core” bit.ly/38dONph
- Assemblymember @KevinKileyCA (R): “California is hosting the actual Super Bowl during a state of emergency. It is time to end the absurdity and let the people of California get back to their lives" bit.ly/3sy9TZc
- California scores gun control victory — for now: A federal appeals court reinstated California’s bans on the sale and possession of high-capacity magazines that can funnel more than 10 rounds of ammunition into a single firearm bit.ly/3E8xLXP
- Universal basic income? California moves to be first state to fund pilot efforts California lawmakers OK funding programs to guarantee some people — especially foster youth and pregnant women — an income floor bit.ly/3BcYBwY
