WTF California: Mental Health Has Become Free For All Plus Universal Basic Income Issues

On this episode, we talk mental health after a man throws rocks at a local church in the City of Antioch, while we also get into the argument these Universal Basic Income Programs are excluding white people from them. California Election Rules could impact timelines of Gavin Newsom Recall. CDC Director warns of 4th wave if we are not careful. Study said media went negative on COVID-19 coverage until Donald Trump out of office. San Diego gets new policies on homeless cleanups and more.

Show Overview

• Protest criticizes Danville police for Tyrell Wilson shooting
  Dozens turned out for a march and rally in Danville to honor a man recently shot and killed by law enforcement. The march began close to where 32-year-old Tyrell Wilson’s life ended, near the Park and Ride lot on Sycamore Valley Road and Camino Ramon.

• Basic Income Programs in Marin County and Oakland Exclude White People. Is That Legal?
  The answer mostly hinges on how much the government is involved. Basic income pilot programs are proliferating throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The goal is to empower poor families with unconditional cash grants. But there’s a catch: You aren’t eligible if you’re white.
• California’s election rules could make a Newsom recall a wild ride
  There is very little set in stone for a recall election in which voters could remove Gov. Gavin Newsom from office beyond the ballot’s basic question of whether the governor should keep his job. Recall elections have been the electoral equivalent of a comet making its way through the solar system. Of the 55 attempts in California history to qualify a gubernatorial recall, only one, the dismissal of then-Gov. Gray Davis in 2003, has made it to the ballot. That is likely to change by year’s end, as backers of the effort to oust Newsom are on the verge of triggering a special statewide election this fall.
• CDC director warns of “impending doom” as COVID cases increase
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky went off script at a briefing Monday and made an emotional plea to Americans not to let up on public health measures amid fears of a fourth wave.
• Study: Media Reported Only Bad COVID News (Until Trump Lost)
  Researchers at Dartmouth College and Brown University did a content analysis of tens of thousands of COVID-19 news stories to look at the levels of negativity. What they found was that 87% of the stories published by the top 15 news sources in the country were negative in tone. That compares with 50% of international news sources, and 64% for scientific journals. They also found the mainstream media were 25 percentage points more likely to be negative than more general U.S news sources.
• Gloria announces policy changes to homeless encampment cleanups
  SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Mayor Todd Gloria Monday announced a number of changes to polices governing how the city intends to handle homeless encampments and unsheltered people’s belongings. The changes are aimed at providing transparency and consistency to reduce negative impacts of city sidewalk-cleanup activities on people experiencing homelessness.
• New bill aims to prevent use of pepper spray in juvenile detention centers
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) – A new bill being proposed may end the use of pepper spray in all juvenile detention centers across California. Sacramento County Youth Detention Facility officials told FOX40 Sunday that pepper spray is used by every one of their assistant probation officers.
• Man convicted of helping brother who killed Newman police officer sentenced to 21 months in prison
  FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A man convicted for helping his brother escape to Mexico after killing Newman Police Corporal Ronil Singh in 2018 was sentenced in federal court on Monday. Mendoza was found guilty in October 2019 of conspiring to aid and abet Paulo Virgen Mendoza’s flight to avoid prosecution for Cpl. Singh’s murder, along with Erick Quiroz Razo, 28.
• Jack London had racist ideas. It’s time to rename the square
  The Jack London I learned about in grade school was a seafaring adventurer. High school teachers taught me about his prolific pen and penchant for weaving together intoxicating descriptions of elemental sensations. It wasn’t until adulthood that I realized London was more complicated than his reputation. While he was noted for being a progressive socialist, London was also adept at dystopian race-baiting and published horribly xenophobic prose, including about Asian people. Some of his writing also revealed an affinity for white supremacy.
• California members of Congress want wildland firefighter jobs to become year-round
  California’s U.S. senators and nearly two dozen representatives asked the Agriculture and Interior departments on Monday to transition their agencies to a year-round wildland workforce because blazes are no longer limited to traditional fire seasons. The move would require reclassifying more seasonal federal firefighter positions as permanent, said a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
• Citrus Heights home for sale receives 122 offers in one weekend, sells in 3 hours
  CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. (KTXL) — A Citrus Heights home in a quiet cul-de-sac received 122 offers in one weekend on the market. The 1,400 square feet home has three bedrooms, two baths and a spacious backyard with a swimming pool and an asking price of $399,900.
• February 2021 Hottest Housing Markets
  Smaller outlying markets continued to rise in the rankings in February. Affordability continues to be a driver of demand as spillover markets dominate our list of the hottest housing markets. Realtor.com’s Market Hotness rankings take into account two aspects of the housing market: 1) market demand, as measured by unique viewers per property on realtor.com, and 2) the pace of the market as measured by the number of days a listing remains active on realtor.com.
• Earth safe from asteroid for 100 years, NASA assures
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all-clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid. The space agency announced this week that new telescope observations have ruled out any chance of Apophis smacking Earth in 2068.

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