October 2024
Chevron Announces Headquarters Relocation From California To Texas
Chevron Corporation said on Friday that it will transfer its worldwide headquarters from San Ramon, California to Houston, Texas before this year ends, marking a shocking loss to the state’s business sector. This action put an end to a long history with California that stretched for 140 years for this energy behemoth and speaks volumes […]
California Governor Signs Landmark AI Regulation Bill
More California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law an ambitious bill that seeks to govern the deployment and creation of artificial intelligence in the state. Sponsored by Senator Brian Jones, and co-authored by Richard Bloom, the Democratic legislator from Santa Monica, the bill has been passed by both houses of the California Legislature this […]
Southern California Wildfire Forces Evacuations And State Of Emergency
A fast moving wildfire in Southern California has led to the displacement of thousands of people, and the California Governor, Gavin Newsom has issued a state of emergency. The fire, the Blazing Fire Bridge, is now the most extended actively burning wildfire in California, burning more than 20,000 hectares of land in no more than […]
California Governor Signs Law Banning Local Voter ID Requirements
Governor of California Gavin Newsom endorsed a new law that would bar local governments from adopting their own voter ID rules that many people in the state disagree with. The legislation that is SB 1174 was ushered in following the passage of an early this year Huntington Beach ordinance that sought to make voter identification […]
Trailblazing Journalist Bob Navarro Honored For Contributions To Latino Media
Bob Navarro, a legendary pioneer Californian journalist and one of the first Spanish-speaking TV and radio hosts in Southern California, is dead at 92. Unfortunately, this week we lost one of the great pioneers of broadcast journalism and Latino representation in the media in Gonzalo ‘s Navarro’s untimely demise. Navarro, born on March 15, 1932, […]
California Lawmakers Reach Agreement With Google On Journalism Funding
As reported this week, in the new pioneering deal, Google will pay millions of dollars for creation of journalism positions in California. The legislation, brokered in secret, will funnel tens of millions of taxpayer and private dollars to bailout local media outlets. The created comes at a time when numerous state governments in the United […]