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Sacramento Could Be One Of First Cities To Reform Single-Family Home Zoning. Here’s How It Would Work.

February 25, 2021 | Chris Nichols

The Sacramento City Council recently voted to allow a greater variety of housing, from duplexes to fourplexes, in neighborhoods zoned almost exclusively for single family homes.

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Yes, California Requires Signature Verification For Mail-In Ballots And Newsom Recall Petitions

February 16, 2021

Despite false claims on social media, the same law that requires signatures for vote-by-mail ballots also applies to recall petitions like the one circulating in an effort to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy Distorts Job Loss Estimates For $15 Minimum Wage Hike

February 11, 2021 | Chris Nichols

GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour “would destroy up to 3.7 million jobs.” That estimate relies on the high-end of an old report.

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Can You Handle The Truth?: Fact Checking False Claims On Newsom Recall Campaign, Pelosi’s Tesla Stock Purchase

February 4, 2021 | Chris Nichols

The campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom shared a false claim this week that Facebook tried to ‘shut down’ the effort when it stopped running its ads on the platform. In reality, Facebook stopped accepting all political ads regardless of party.

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No, Facebook Didn’t Try To ‘Shut Down’ Gavin Newsom Recall Effort

February 2, 2021 | Chris Nichols

Facebook stopped accepting social, political and election advertising on its platform last fall, though it allowed ads in the U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia. It did not single out the Newsom recall campaign.

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Can You Handle The Truth?: Fact-Checking Claims About Hank Aaron And COVID-19 Vaccines

January 28, 2021 | Chris Nichols

Despite the false claims on social media, PolitiFact found there is no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine contributed to the death of baseball legend Hank Aaron last week.

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No, Efforts To Recall California Gov. Newsom Are Not ‘A Coup’

January 13, 2021 | Chris Nichols

For more than a century, the state constitution has allowed California voters to use the recall process to try to remove local and state officials, for any reason, midway through their terms in office.

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After Calling U.S. Capitol Insurrection ‘First Shots Against Tyranny,’ California Lawmaker Backtracks

January 12, 2021 | Chris Nichols

A California state lawmaker from San Diego and a Santa Clara County GOP party official are among Republicans nationwide who either justified or encouraged last week’s deadly attacks at the U.S. Capitol.

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PolitiFact California

High-Ranking California Republican Lawmaker Pushes Misinformation About Storming of U.S. Capitol

January 6, 2021 | Chris Nichols

Numerous videos, photographs and eye-witness accounts show supporters of President Trump, and not antifa activists, breaking into the U.S. Capitol.

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Yes, L.A. Hospitals Were Packed With COVID-19 Patients, Contrary To Viral Video’s Claims

January 6, 2021 | Chris Nichols

A video flagged by Facebook users claimed there are “absolutely no patients” at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles despite recent media reports that it was inundated with patients following the coronavirus surge.

 

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