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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
