Gov. Newsom’s job approval rating among California voters has plummeted, driven largely by dissatisfaction over the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies. latimes.com/california/sto…
More than a third of the state’s registered voters said they would vote to oust Newsom from office if the a Republican-led recall campaign qualifies for the ballot, though 45% said they would oppose such a move, the survey found. latimes.com/politics/story…
The decline in Newsom’s standing could endanger his policy agenda as he guides the state through the pandemic and as even his political allies begin to question the actions he has taken. latimes.com/california/sto…
California voters were almost evenly split when asked whether Newsom has done a good or bad job as governor, a precipitous drop from September when two-thirds of those polled gave him high marks.
The poll also found that just 31% of those surveyed thought that Newsom and other state government leaders have done an excellent or good job handing the pandemic, while 23% said they have done a fair job and 43% called it a poor job.
California lawmakers on demanded quick fixes to the state unemployment benefits system a week after two scathing state audits found poor planning and ineffective management caused significant delays in payments to people left jobless during the pandemic. latimes.com/california/sto…
Many officials are also sounding the alarm that Californians whose identities were stolen as part of unemployment fraud schemes will need immediate help from the state EDD to avoid tax liability on the benefits wrongly paid to others in their names. latimes.com/california/sto…
State Auditor Elaine Howle laid out recommendations that include developing better tools for processing claims and stopping fraud, and expediting reviews of 1.4 million claims suspended in December pending investigation of potential fraudulent activity. latimes.com/california/sto…
"I didn’t realize that I would be as like excited or nervous as I was when it actually came down to that moment. But, yeah, I was screaming," Corrin says.
She has grown in celebrity during quarantine. "It’s been really nice because it meant I could process everything in a very slow way and it means that the focus has mainly been on the work."
The Ralphs supermarket on the corner of Wardlow Road and Los Coyotes Diagonal in Long Beach has become a flashpoint in the heated battle over whether grocery workers deserve “hero pay” for their work during the pandemic.
Ralphs now plans to close the location after Long Beach approved a hazard wage. And the industry has warned that more stores will close if the such pay rules expand. That has outraged some officials.
The concept is that grocery store workers who have put their lives at risk during the pandemic get extra pay.
Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to back a proposal requiring grocery stores to temporarily pay workers an extra $5 an hour. latimes.com/california/sto…
Sean Penn’s nonprofit CORE has an army of volunteers and staff at the Dodger Stadium COVID vaccine site.
But after anonymous online comments about long days and lettuce wrap lunches, Sean Penn fired off a scathing, nearly 2,200-word letter to his staff. latimes.com/california/sto…
Penn described the comments as “dissent in the low-hanging fruit of cyberspace,” “uninformed inaccuracies,” “shameful entries,”“obscene critiques” and a “betrayal of all,” and you can read it here: latimes.com/california/sto…
The unnamed pair wrote disparaging comments about Penn’s operation in the comments section of a Jan. 28 story in the New York Times that depicted a day at the vaccination site.