In a news letter to her constituents, Riverside County supervisor Karen Spiegel revealed she has the coronavirus. Apparently, after 14 days of quarantine from a Riverside County office outbreak, Supervisor Spiegel was negative during that time but later exhibited symptoms after her quarantine. She revealed that exposure to an asymptomatic family member led to her […]
Author: Ricardo Lezama
Learn more about me in my website, but if you must know, I am a computational linguist through industry work and write about things that affect Chicano/Mexican community everywhere.
Southern California totals for Covid-19 Infections are comparable to the entire sum of Covid-19 Infections in several countries including Mexico and South Africa. The total number of infections for Southern California counties is 226,160 total, with 5625 deaths attributable to this novel Coronavirus (Sars-Cov-2), which causes the Covid-19 infection. The entire county of Mexico has […]
Protests held in Solidarity with Vanessa Guillen family. A very large protest was held in Santa Ana, California in front of the Armed Services Career Center – people observed social distancing and mask requirements as they expressed outrage over the brutal murder of Vanessa Guillen. Anger mounts within the California Mexican community over the disappearance […]
Incredibly, the stock market is reaching unprecedented highs thanks to a constant purchase of corporate debt by the US Federal Reserve. NASDAQ had a record day today as money trickles into riskier stocks. The US Federal Reserve is freely purchasing positions in ETF’s (Electronically Traded Funds) which is helping support the value of stocks. Propping […]
8:05 pm ET June 1, 2020 (Dow Jones) Print By Benjamin Mullin Journalists covering the unrest in major U.S. cities stemming from the death of George Floyd are coming into harm’s way, with dozens claiming they have been beaten, chased or even shot at while on the job. Reports of run-ins with protesters or police have come […]
As news outlets continue to focus on looting, the autopsy of George Floyd now conducted by an independent coroner has determined that the killing was only purely the result of asphyxiation. A curfew has gone unprotested. Sadly, most of the news items are defined by correspondents who are not really reflective of the local public, […]
4:47 am ET June 1, 2020 (Benzinga) Print President Donald Trump held discussions with Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg over the phone the day after he had signed an executive order targeting social media legal immunity, Axios reported Sunday. What Happened Both sides described the conversation as “productive,” according to Axios, but more details on the […]
Online retailer curtails operations in a ‘handful of cities’Target temporarily closes dozens of stores across nationBy Spencer Soper and James Ludden(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. scaled back deliveries and adjusted routes in cities including Chicago and Los Angeles, Apple kept some outlets shut, while Target Corp. extended store closures nationwide after the death of George Floyd sparked demonstrations across the country.“We […]
By ASHRAF KHALIL, AARON MORRISON and TIM SULLIVANWashington (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations against police killings of black people overshadowed by unrest that quickly ravaged parts of cities from Pennsylvania to California.City and state officials had deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers, […]
Minneapolis erupts in outrage over George Floyd murder. CNN Crew Arrested. See story from Dow Jones. 10:50 am ET May 29, 2020 (Dow Jones) Print By Benjamin Mullin A CNN television crew was arrested and detained briefly by Minnesota state patrol officers early Friday morning while covering a protest in Minneapolis sparked by the death of George […]