Mar 28, 2020 – Federal prosecutors have secured a second guilty plea in connection with their ongoing investigation into corruption at Los Angeles City Hall. The investigation focuses on “pay to play” schemes wherein developers, lobbyists, and the like bribe city officials to ensure that their development projects are shepherded through the various regulatory...

Mar 27, 2020 – At the end of a week of flip-flopping by Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva on the issue of whether gun stores are “essential” businesses or not during a public health emergency (the anti-2A authoritarian eventually decided they were not), four gun rights organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against...

Mar 27, 2020 – As millions of people across the country are losing some or all of their income due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, banks, mortgage companies, utilities, and other companies are offering special programs to help ease financial the pressure. But union bosses in Los Angeles still need their dough, yo....

Mar 27, 2020 – President Donald Trump speaks with Vice President Mike Pence as they arrive for a Fox News Channel virtual town hall, at the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Friday afternoon President Trump “signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services...

Mar 27, 2020 – Photo: Dyson As the world battles the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, ventilators are in high demand and short supply. Existing manufacturers have ramped up production of the devices, which utilize proprietary technology, but absent a disruptive event a major shortfall is still projected. At least one disruptive event is taking...

Mar 27, 2020 – FILE – In this May 1, 2009 file photo, a 3M N95 mask is modeled in New York. 3M Co., which makes everything from Post-It Notes to insect repellent, said Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, strong sales of health care products in flu-wary Asia helped lift earnings beyond analyst expectations in...

Mar 26, 2020 – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases has doubled in Los Angeles in the last three days but the county’s elected Sheriff, who also serves as the Director of Emergency Operations (for now), seems to be more concerned with scoring media points against the Board of Supervisors, with whom he’s been...

Mar 26, 2020 – #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/G4tGaoUWyh — Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) March 26, 2020 It reads: As a result of the global…

Mar 25, 2020 – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shows a Memorandum with COVID-19 city departments guidelines, as he takes questions at a news conference in Los Angeles, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Garcetti closed City Hall to the public and banned all events or conferences on city-owned properties for more than 50 people. (AP...

Mar 25, 2020 – Currently, as covered by RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar, the bill represents the largest stimulus ever proposed.…

Mar 25, 2020 – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, left, and councilmember Jose Huizar shows their Metro Pass cards as they ride the Angels Flight Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. Angels Flight, the beloved little railroad that’s almost as much a symbol of Los Angeles as the Hollywood Sign, began pulling people toward the heavens...

Mar 25, 2020 – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber as lawmakers negotiate on the emergency coronavirus response legislation, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Early Wednesday, a negotiating team comprised of Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin,...

Mar 24, 2020 – CORRECTS TO CULVER CITY, INSTEAD OF LOS ANGELES An employee stands at the entrance to a guns shop Tuesday, March 24, 2020, in Culver City, Calif. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he would like to see gun shops shut down. “We will be closing them, they are not...

Mar 24, 2020 – After declaring the county’s gun stores “nonessential” Monday, on Tuesday morning Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told Fox 11 Los Angeles “he is beginning to close gun stores immediately,” and is sending deputies to gun stores “one by one to order them shut down.” The Sheriff told me he...

Mar 23, 2020 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks outside her office on Capitol Hill, Monday, March 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)It’s almost as if they coordinated their remarks. Until sometime on Sunday, March 22, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was on board with the stimulus bill being...

Mar 22, 2020 – In these days of quarantine, “Stay-At-Home” orders, and cabin fever being experienced by office workers suddenly forced to work remotely, people are online, looking for ways to connect with others. Celebrities and musicians have posted videos on Twitter or YouTube in an attempt to connect and bring people together....

Mar 21, 2020 – Since California’s controversial anti-freelancer bill was signed into law in September 2019, one (not unpredictable) result has been staffing shortages in the healthcare industry, particularly in fields generally staffed by contractors or locum tenens providers: physicians assistants, nurses, nurse anesthetists, and respiratory therapists. As the Wuhan coronavirus made its...

Apr 9, 2020 – A man looks toward the skyline from Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and...

Apr 9, 2020 – FILE – In this June 18, 2018, file photo, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy, who just returned from a congressional trip to Russia warned against trusting President Vladimir Putin, saying that dealing with the Russian government is like “dealing with the...

Apr 8, 2020 – A pharmacist shows a bottle of the drug hydroxychloroquine on Monday, April 6, 2020, in Oakland, Calif. President Donald Trump and his administration kept up their out-sized promotion Monday of an malaria drug not yet officially approved for fighting the new coronavirus, even though scientists say more testing is needed...

Apr 8, 2020 – As my colleague Jennifer Van Laar reported, she credits hydroxychloroquine and Trump’s touting it with saving her life.…

Apr 7, 2020 – Though he predicts that the state’s coronavirus “surge” won’t occur until May, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has sent (loaned) 500 ventilators back to the national stockpile, shipping them directly to heavily affected states. Newsom made the announcement Monday, and Tuesday the machines were shipped from Sacramento. CA's 500 ventilators...

Apr 7, 2020 – A mayor in suburban St. Louis, faced with an increase in gatherings violating the state’s “Stay at Home” order, asked his town’s police department on Friday to “more strictly enforce” the governor’s executive order. Brant Walker, Mayor of Alton, Illinois got a big surprise early Sunday morning when he...

Apr 7, 2020 – In Tuesday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing, President Donald Trump announced that “we’re gonna put a hold on money spent to the WHO [World Health Organization].” The President said: The WHO, that’s the World Health Organization, receives vast amounts of money from the United States, and we pay for...

Apr 7, 2020 – Dr. Zeke Emanuel, a member of Joe Biden’s coronavirus “Public Health Advisory Committee,” appeared on MSNBC Monday night and declared that “Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more,” and that “we will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or...