Editorial by Carl Goldman Jessica Sutta, vocalist for The Pussycat Dolls, the superstar pop group that topped the music charts from 2003-2010, Brianne Dressen, a preschool teacher from Utah and Ernest Ramirez a single father from a border town in Texas visited with KHTS last week to share their life-changing stories after taking the Covid-19 vaccine. They only represent a ...

Senate Bill 866, which would allow minors to receive vaccinations without permission from their parents was withdrawn  Monday, to the relief of Santa Clarita representatives. On Wednesday, Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said the bill was “several votes short of 41” needed to pass, with no “viable path for these final few votes.” “Sadly, months of harassment and misinformation — ...

The final Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approval of COVID-19 vaccines for infants and young children aged 6 months to 5 years is expected to come next week.  In the wake of this approval, Los Angeles County is preparing to make the vaccines widely available across the county next week as soon as June 21st.  The CDC’s Advisory ...

Senate Bill 871 would mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all California students, and administrators in Santa Clarita are sharing their thoughts with KHTS. Steve Doyle – Superintendent, Castaic Union School District We are all very concerned about the impacts with the vaccine mandate bills.  We are already struggling to fill vacancies in open positions.  Mandating the vaccine for staff would only ...

Assembly bill 1993, (AB 1993) that would have required all businesses to mandate all employees and contractors be vaccinated against COVID-19 has been put on hold, officials announced Tuesday.  AB 1993’s leading Author Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, announced that she would not move forward with the Bill at this time. “We’ve defeated AB 1993, the employer vaccine mandate. The author ...

AB 1993 Could Be The Final Straw That Kills The California Economy A proposed new law –  AB1993 –  introduced by Assembly Members Wicks, Aguiar-Curry, Low, and Akilah Weber would require all California public and private businesses of all sizes to have their employees and independent contractors to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by January 1, 2023. Wicks Defends Her Authorship ...

SB-871 will force all Public and Private School students to take all vaccines mandated by the California Department of Health. A new law, SB-871, authored by California State Senator, Dr. Richard Pan (Democrat — Senate District 6) would require every California school (public, private, nursery, daycare, family daycare home or development center) to not admit a student unless they are ...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn released a statement on Twitter Tuesday about the Department of Public Health (DPH) reportedly lifting indoor mask mandates for the vaccinated in L.A. County later this week.  This week, Supervisor Hahn tweeted about a new Health Order by the L.A. County DPH which would allow those who are vaccinated to remove their masks indoors ...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released the latest data on COVID-19 on Sunday, revealing 16,835 new cases and 40 new deaths.  Most of these cases include the Omicron and Delta variants, according to public health officials.  At Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, 69 patients are currently hospitalized for COVID-19 and as of Sunday, one additional person has died, ...

Public outcry over the state vaccination mandate for schools has prompted the William S. Hart Union School District board to pass a resolution to reconsider or rescind the mandate at their Wednesday meeting. The board passed a two-part resolution to approve a letter that calls for Governor Gavin Newsom to revisit the state vaccination mandate. The second resolution on the ...