PublicSafety

Father-son duo suspected of starting Caldor fire face charges over makeshift machine gun

Labor Day weekend 2021 up in Lake Tahoe, California, was spent evacuating residents and tourists while the Golden State threw everything it had to fight the Caldor fire. The wildfire, exacerbated by …

Sun Dec 12, 2021

Health care staffing CEO resigns after ties linked him to anti-mask group

On Friday, Overland Park, Kansas-based company Krucial Staffing announced that CEO Brian Cleary would be stepping down. The company provides emergency health care staffing. Cleary’s ties to anti-mask …

Sat Sep 11, 2021

News Roundup: Biden administration goes on the offensive; lessons from the pandemic

It’s Friday! The Biden administration continues its work of trying to fix the last guy’s mess while moving us into a future where we don’t rely on rich benefactors to get women medical care and dead …

Sat Sep 11, 2021

Extremist candidate urges ‘strong men’ to flood school board meeting. Sheriffs will be there instead

As cases of COVID-19 surged across the country due in no small part to the growing prevalence of the delta variant, Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania announced a statewide order requiring that both public …

Fri Sep 10, 2021

DeSantis is failing Florida on COVID-19. New polling shows Floridians damn well know it

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade against masking and other pandemic mitigation efforts isn’t playing well for him among Floridians, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. …

Wed Aug 25, 2021