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Boots Riley’s “I’m A Virgo” starring Jharrel Jerome just got picked up by Amazon. The 30 minute series is a coming of age tale about a 13 foot tall Black man growing up in Oakland, California. Riley wrote the series & will be directing & producing as well, with Michael Ellenberg of Media Res, Tze […]
California is postponing its reopening plans due to a spike in statewide coronavirus cases. Currently, California has over 1 million cases and a 4.2% infection rate – joining Texas with the highest pandemic rates in the country. San Diego county is being forced back to the most severe of the color-coded levels and many small […]
California has been requesting a disaster declaration due to the six uncontrollable wildfires that have been ravaging the state since the season began. According to Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services,The Trump administration has denied the request. “The request for a Major Presidential Disaster Declaration for early September fires has been […]
The state of California will be phasing out all gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The reason for this new bill is to encourage people who I’ve in California to buy electric vehicles. California also wants to lead the country in the reduction of greenhouse emissions. The new executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom will not […]
The West Coast is in for another round of heat as a major weather pattern rolls into that part of the country. This weather pattern will create perfect conditions for more wildfires and also a major heatwave in the South West. Yesterday there were already high wind warnings and air quality alerts in place for […]
An executive order by California Governor Gavin Newsom was signed on Wednesday that will slowly phase out gas powered cars by 2035. More specifically, the order will ban the sale of internal combustion vehicles and encourage zero-emission cars instead, thereby decreasing California’s greenhouse gas emissions to reduce pollution. Newsom gave a statement, saying: “For too […]
The President was in Sacramento Monday for a briefing on the record-setting wildfires that have devastated California. During the brief, the secretary of California’s Natural Resources Agency, Wade Crowfoot pleaded for assistance from the government. He stated how climate change was impacting California with extreme temperatures and working with science to succeed in protecting California. […]
Smoke from the California wildfires has reached the East Coast. According to AccuWeather meteorologist Matt Benz, you can draw a line from California all the way to Norfolk, Virginia and almost everyone north of that line is seeing smoke-tainted skies. The only reason states south of that line aren’t affected is because of air coming […]
Due to record high temperatures, dry conditions and extreme winds, huge areas of land in California have gone up in flames. Over 2 million acres of land have burned away, setting a new record for worst wildfires that California has ever seen. Randy Moore, regional forester for the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region says: […]
The governor of California is requesting federal aid to help combat the 2nd and 3rd worst wildfires in the state’s history. Hundreds of thousands of people have been given evacuation orders and even more aid is being requested from 10 states, Canada and Australia. In all, there are around 560 wildfires raging but the two […]