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A sign welcoming customers at Reformation in San Francisco on July 25, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff, CalMatters
It’s really happening California is really reopening. After more than a year of wearing masks and waiting in extra-long grocery lines due to six-foot rules, almost everything will snap back to normal on June 15, state health officials said Friday. Business capacity limits? Gone. Physical distancing requirements? Gone. Mask mandates? Gone for fully vaccinated people in most situations, though restrictions will remain for unvaccinated people and workplace guidelines still have to be finalized. Dr. Mark Ghaly, the state’s health and human services secretary, also said California will not create a vaccine passport, though the state is working on privacy and equity guidelines for businesses who decide to use such a system. Californians who attend indoor events with more than 5
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What schooling will look like in Los Angeles Unified in the fall will be settled over the next few weeks amid escalating demands from parents, advocacy groups and unions all pressing their agendas for the educational recovery of some 465,000 students.
One group of parents on Sunday put their stake in the ground: They demanded that district officials commit to a normal, full-time schedule for the fall. Separately, the teachers union last week called for maintaining safety measures, hiring more union members and raising pay. Meanwhile, a coalition of community groups recently called for increased funding for schools that they identified as most in need.
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May 24, 2021
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Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino said Monday that defunding the police has been “the dumbest idea” from liberals because it has increased crime across America.
“Defunding the police is the single dumbest idea in the history of liberalism,” Bongino told “Fox & Friends.”
“Now, think about it. That’s saying a lot right there, because liberalism is, I mean, their thing is dumb, that’s their thing, it’s like their campaign slogan: vote liberal, we have dumb ideas , that’s their thing, right like fork over a lot of money to the government, they can spend it better than you and everybody is like really they don’t know anything.” he said.
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Despite California’s high unemployment rate, many positions at restaurants, bars and retail stores are going unfilled causing some business owners to fear they won’t be able to fully reopen even when the state gives the green light on June 15.
The Golden State’s unemployment rate remained unchanged between March and April, holding steady at 8.3% even as employers added nearly 102,000 jobs, according to figures released Friday by the Employment Development Department. That accounts for 38% of all U.S. jobs gained last month a bright spot that dims when one takes into account that California still has the nation’s second-highest unemployment rate and has regained only 48% of jobs lost amid the pandemic. In some areas, the share of jobless residents is actually increasing: Los Angeles’ unemployment rate shot from 11.4% in March to 11.7% in April.
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education appears to have missed the lesson about not responding to tantrums, and the toddler-like United Teachers Los Angeles is in charge now.