L.A. won’t immediately follow CDC’s relaxed mask rules
- Federal officials on Thursday announced a sweeping relaxation of face mask guidelines, including allowing fully vaccinated people to stop wearing masks in most places — either outdoors or inside
- The state and county will review the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations in order to “make sensible adjustments to the orders that are currently in place,” L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said
- It could be a week or more before substantive changes to mask-wearing orders take effect locally
Newsom proposes COVID grants up to $25,000 for thousands more California businesses
- Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday proposed adding $1.5 billion to a program providing grants of up to $25,000 to small businesses harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic in California
- The additional funds from federal COVID-19 aid to the state would bring the amount allocated in recent months for grants to $4 billion
- Even with the new funds, it is unlikely the grant money will be sufficient to help all of the California businesses suffering financially because of the pandemic
Caitlyn Jenner’s bid to be California’s next Governor is falling flat
- Caitlyn Jenner hopes to repeat Schwarzenegger’s success as a celebrity running to replace the governor but polls suggest it’s not working
- In the past week alone, she has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and Fox News to put out an introductory campaign ad positioning herself as a “compassionate disrupter”
- A new poll this week shows Jenner gaining little traction with just 6% of respondents saying they would vote for her, putting her far behind other Republican contenders
