EDD backlog and fraud timeline: How we got here
The problems with California s Unemployment Department date back farther than just 2020 Share Updated: 10:40 AM PST Feb 12, 2021 David Manoucheri
The problems with California s Unemployment Department date back farther than just 2020 Share Updated: 10:40 AM PST Feb 12, 2021
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Show Transcript okay. It has been said that there is no honor among thieves. And there is no better example of this than the massive a d D. Fraud that is occurring within our jails in our prisons here in California. Okay, tens of thousands of inmates, local stay and federal institutions all involved every type of inmate that you could conceivably think of murderers doing life or life without the possibility of parole rapist serving hundreds of years of a sentence or perhaps life as well. Child molesters, serial killers and other murderers sitting on California s death row. Hundreds of millions of dol
CalTrans will conduct its annual mandatory emergency response drill at the Devil’s Slide tunnels on Highway 1 beginning 9 p.m. tonight, Feb. 3, and ending 4 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4.
Dodd to host virtual town hall on COVID-19 and housing
SONOMA State Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa, will host his next in a series of virtual town halls on the coronavirus pandemic at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, featuring updates on the vaccine rollout, the eviction moratorium extension and presentations from state officials on housing and homelessness.
The town hall will be broadcast live on KSVY Sonoma Radio/TV and streamed across multiple channels. Panelists will join Dodd in answering submitted questions and calls from listeners.
Panelists are Lourdes Castro Ramirez, secretary of the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency; Jason Elliott, senior housing and homelessness counselor to Gov. Gavin Newsom; and Lori Nezhura, deputy director of planning, preparedness and prevention at the California Office of Emergency Services.
Updated Tsunami Maps Show New Hazards, Will Be Released On 10-Year Remembrance Of Japan Earthquake
This map shows the larger tsunami hazard area identified in 2021 versus the area identified in 2009. Courtesy of CalOES and the California Geological Survey
Though there isn’t a dramatic change for Del Norte County, new tsunami hazard maps show several areas that are more vulnerable than initially thought.
Introduced to the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, the new maps take into account better science and modeling as well as lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
“Instead of being a 500-year return map it’s been updated to a 1,000-year return map so we don’t get blindsided like what happened in Japan,” said Del Norte Emergency Services Manager Kymmie Scott, chair of the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group. “(The hazard) didn’t change drastically, but there are some areas going up the 101 in town where it goes further in and