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USA TODAY This time, Lindsay McAndrew was running away for good. After a decade of suffering domestic violence, the COVID-19 pandemic made her realize she needed a clean break. McAndrew, 35, grabbed birth certificates, Social Security cards and $1,700 cash from her children's piggy banks. She packed the minivan with the three kids and family dog, Charlie. As she pulled out of the driveway in Orlando, Florida, in September, she headed to the only safe haven she knew: her mother's house in New Jersey.  "I felt like I was screaming, but nobody could hear me," McAndrew said. Now, months after ...

An article published here at Orange County Breeze recently gave details about SB 397, the “Religion is Essential Act.” The bill is sponsored by State Senator Brian Jones (R-District 38). A reader responded to that article in this fashion: So Brian believes that his faith is too weak and/or his god is too weak to survive basic safety precautions. If he believes that his faith carries him then let it carry him and his adherents without endangering others. If he believes that his god is all powerful and omnipresent then allow his god to support him anywhere and everywhere during this time w...

Senator Brian W. Jones (R-Santee) today introduced Senate Bill 397, the “Religion is Essential Act.” “Americans are guaranteed religious freedom and the right to congregate with fellow members at their chosen house of worship,” stated Senator Jones. “For 11 months, California Governor Newsom used the excuse of COVID to violate those rights and his fellow Democrat legislators sheepishly sat on their hands and allowed it to happen. Mercifully, the United States Supreme Court recently stepped in and returned our religious rights, but the threat from Newsom and others to undermine those...

Senator Murray : “Families are facing unprecedented struggles in getting quality child care—and this bill will put more money in their pockets so they can afford the child care they need” Senator Cantwell : “There are too many middle-class families struggling to make ends meet and simply not enough quality, affordable child care options” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the chair of the Senate education committee, and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) joined Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and more than 25 of their Senate Democratic colleagues in intro...

Print this article As we near the one-year mark since the United States began balancing COVID-19 protocol and civil liberties, the debate over how to achieve them both is ongoing, as are the lawsuits. Late Friday night, the Supreme Court partially granted an application for injunctive relief in two cases, South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom and Harvest Rock Church v. Newsom. Now California Gov. Gavin Newsom must end the state's total ban on indoor worship and let religious spaces reopen at 25% of occupancy, though the state can continue to ban singing and chanting indoors. The...