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CLEARLAKE
American Legion Post 437 breakfast
We serve bacon, sausage, eggs, cookies, and gravy, $ 9 with the July Special – Blueberry Pancakes – Sunday, July 11th, 8:30 am to 11pm at 14770 Austin Rd. Clearlake CA. Please call 707-994-3677 for information.
—Submitted
SACRAMENTO
Newsom wants to diversify justice
Speaking of Newsom, the governor has largely held back since an investigation last week found he vastly overestimated California’s progress on fire safety and only held one press conference with just two reporters asking him questions. Notably, on Thursday he didn’t reveal the final prices – six Dream Vacation freebies – on the state vaccination lottery; instead, the Ministry of Health hosted the event. The governor, who may have wanted to take on a more sober tone after a series of Carnivalesque lottery draws, instead started a new mentoring program aimed at diversifying the California judiciary. The announcement came less than 45 minutes after Kounalakis set the date of the recall election. This was also followed by a series of reports from CalMatters’ Byrhonda Lyons, which found that white Californians make up nearly two-thirds of the Supreme Court justices but only one-third of the state’s population, while four Latin-American counties do not have a single Latino chief judge .
- Newsom: “This mentoring program supports our efforts to identify the best and brightest judicial candidates from across the state and helps create a stronger, more inclusive bank that can better serve all Californians.”
—Hoofs, CALMatters
CALIFORNIA
Gun sales and murders are increasing
Californians legally bought a record 686,435 handguns in 2020 – an increase of nearly 66% year-over-year – while annual long gun sales hit their second-highest of 480,401 legal purchases, according to data released Thursday by Attorney General Rob Bonta. Although Bonta found that an increase in gun sales does not necessarily translate into an increase in gun-related violence, the numerous reports he released Thursday show that homicides rose 31% from 2019 to 2020, making for the highest homicide rate in California since 2008. Nearly 75% of the 2,202 homicides reported in the past year involved the use of a weapon. Meanwhile, the number of calls for help related to domestic violence with firearms rose by 42% and violent crime by 0.8%. And despite a new law aimed at restricting the use of police violence, the number of civilians killed by law enforcement agencies rose to 172 in 2020, up from 147 the previous year.
- Bonta: “With more weapons, more economic stagnation, more despair, I think these are all possible components and drivers of our position today.”
Rising homicide and violent crime rates are likely to lead to persistent public safety concerns and could play a big role in next year’s general election. Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who takes a more traditional law-and-order approach, announced Thursday that she has raised more than $ 1 million since announcing her AG offering two months ago. Campaign funding records show that Bonta, who has positioned himself more as a progressive prosecutor, raised $ 1.15 million for his re-election campaign.
—Hoofs, CALMatters
CALIFORNIA
The Supreme Court repeals another CA law
California suffered another blow from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday when the nation’s highest court ruled 6-3 down a state law requiring charities to disclose the identities of their primary donors. The ruling was a massive victory for two conservative groups – including one affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers – who argued that the Golden State law impeded their ability to raise money and exposed donors to potential harassment. Attorney General Bonta meanwhile criticized the decision as a decision that would make it difficult for his office to weed out fraud and self-dealing within the vast system of 115,000 charities. It is the second California law to overturn the court’s Conservative majority in less than two weeks: in late June, a law was passed that allowed union organizers to meet with farm workers on farmers’ private property.
But another recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that challenged the notion that college athletes shouldn’t make money encouraged California, which sparked a national move in 2019 when it passed a nation’s first law allowing gamblers allowed to sign paid advertising contracts. Now California lawmakers are pushing for the law to go into effect earlier and extend it to community college athletes.
—Hoofs, CALMatters
SACRAMENTO
Governor Newsom announces appointments
Yong Ping Chen, 58, from Camarillo, was reappointed to the California Acupuncture Board, where she has served since 2020. Chen has been a professor at Alhambra Medical University since 2020 and an acupuncturist at Chen’s Chinese Medicine Clinic since 2002.
Tian Feng, 62, from Walnut Creek, was reappointed to the California Architects Board, where he has served since 2014. Feng has been a District Architect for the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) since 2001.
Mitra Kanaani, 69, from San Diego, was appointed to the California Architects Board. Kanaani has been a professor at the New School of Architecture and Design since 1992, where she has held several roles including Chair of the Architecture Department and the Undergraduate Program, Deputy Dean and Director of the Integrated Path to Architectural Licensing, IPAL program.
—Submitted
– Compiled by Ariel Carmona Jr.
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