April 2025 – Page 10 – California Globe

Ringside: Ways to Rein in the California Coastal Commission

April 17, 2025 2:55 amApril 17, 2025 12:08 pm

There is a growing bipartisan consensus even here in California that environmentalist restrictions have gone too far. It would be a dishonest oversimplification to pretend environmentalists have outlived their usefulness, or that many of the accomplishments of environmentalists over the...

California Cadet Corps

April 17, 2025 2:30 amApril 17, 2025 6:29 am

The California Cadet Corps is established in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Military and Veterans Code. Section 500 allows the students of a school, college, or community college in this state to be organized into...

Oakland Mayoral Special Election: Loren Taylor Holds Narrow Lead Over Barbara Lee

April 16, 2025 7:23 pmApril 16, 2025 7:23 pm

The Oakland Mayoral Special election was held in Oakland on Tuesday, with results on Wednesday showing former City Councilman Loren Taylor holding a narrow lead over former Congresswoman Barbara Lee, albeit with no clear winner. The latest results have Taylor...

Valero Energy Announces Plans to Exit California, Incurs $1.1 Billion Charges to Refinery Operations

April 16, 2025 5:50 pmApril 16, 2025 5:51 pm

Citing low operating margins, increased operating costs and a growingly harsh regulatory environment, including a state mandated moratorium on the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, and in the wake of an $85 million fine related to “egregious...

California Sues Trump Administration Over Tariffs

April 16, 2025 2:27 pmApril 16, 2025 2:27 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Wednesday that they are suing President Donald Trump over his tariff’s, becoming the first state in the country to do so. According to the suit, which was filed in the U.S....

Valero Announces it Will Shut Down Benicia Refinery April 2026

April 16, 2025 12:39 pmApril 17, 2025 12:05 pm

California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not for the people. In another blow to California’s oil and gas industry, and the state’s fuel; supply, Valero Energy Corporation announced Wednesday it will shut down its...

Cash to California’s Classrooms, Not Bureaucrats

April 16, 2025 6:53 amApril 16, 2025 6:53 am

California’s education system is broken and needs deep, system-wide reform. Despite the state spending more than $18,000 on each student, public school performance continues to worsen. In the 2023–2024 school year, the rate of chronically absent students reached 20.4%, meaning...