Costs Rise as Cargo Ships Backlogged at LA Ports
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are facing one of the worst backlogs they’ve ever seen, as dozens of cargo ships wait at anchor in San Pedro Bay. Together, they handle as much as 40 percent of the nation’s imports.
A combination of trade wars, tariffs, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a shift in spending habits of Americans have all played a part in creating the logjam, says Phillip Sanfield, a spokesperson for the Port of Los Angeles.
“This has been brewing for months,” Sanfield told The Epoch Times.
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Demonstrators shout slogans while carrying a sign calling for a recall on Gov. Gavin Newsom. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
Opponent of Newsom church restrictions identified as California recall donor
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OAKLAND An Orange County donor named John Kruger has been identified as the source of a $500,000 contribution toward recalling Gov. Gavin Newsom, solving a mystery that transfixed California political watchers.
The burgeoning effort to unseat Newsom received its first six-figure infusion last week courtesy of an Orange County-based limited liability company called Prov 3:9. The firm had a virtually nonexistent business presence and no record of political spending, fueling questions about its true funder and spurring a request for a state investigation from former state and federal campaign finance commissioner Ann Ravel.
Wednesday, Jan. 6, and I’m your guest host, Tony Barboza. I’m filling in for Julia Wick and writing from Long Beach.
We made it through to the New Year, with the surging coronavirus making it the strangest, and perhaps darkest, holiday season in many of our lifetimes. But 2021 isn’t having much of a honeymoon period.
The pandemic in California is already at a point of crisis. Cases, deaths and hospitalizations in L.A. and other areas across the state keep rising, signs that we are well into a new spike in infections from holiday gatherings and travel. It’s the beginning of the dreaded “surge on top of a surge on top of a surge” warned of by health officials.
Former FEC Chair Urges Investigation of $500,000 Donation to Newsom Recall
On 1/6/21 at 6:53 AM EST
A former chair of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has filed a complaint against a company that donated $500,000 to the effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Ann Ravel, who served as chair of the FEC under President Barack Obama for the entirety of 2015, called on state authorities to investigate the Orange County-based company Prov. 3:9 LLC. Her complaint alleges that it is a shell company. Such a dark money scheme is antithetical to a functioning democracy and in violation of the state s comprehensive campaign finance laws, her complaint says. The people of California have the right to know, when the recall is being circulated, who is behind the effort.
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01/06/2021 09:23 AM EST
THE BUZZ: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic management has fed a backlash from Californians who want to reopen their businesses, dine out, join their families for holidays and send their kids back to school. But it’s church closures that have fueled the highest-dollar blow against Newsom so far.