Schools and churches were closed for a year, depriving students of quality education and depriving people of any communal expression of faith.

"They close us down, we go in and put the strength into pastors to open them up," he said. Gibson said his organization helped 5,000 churches reopen against governors' order during the first three weeks of shutdowns earlier this year.

"We are likely, I think it's pretty self-evident, going to need to extend those regional dates," Newsom said.

act the church claims is retaliatory.

Another was being established at Village Church of Irvine at 77 Post.

“We actually need to bring back churches into our schools. ... The answer is not throwing money into it,” she said.

He is ignoring the cries from small business owners struggling to keep their dreams alive, desperately trying to avoid the over 19,000 businesses that have permanently closed."

It’s hard to imagine that state lawmakers would vote to shutter churches, destroy businesses, and close down schools in their own districts. They’d have to answer to their own angry neighbors and constituents.

Gavin Newsom ordered the nation’s first statewide shut down because of the coronavirus, masks remain mandated, indoor dining and other activities are significantly limited, and Disneyland remains closed.

Gavin Newsom of California and Andrew Cuomo of New York.

At that point, he knew something was “very, very wrong,” went inside and closed his doors and garage.

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