October 2025 – California Globe

2025 Letters to the Daily Journal – Assembly Bills

October 31, 2025 3:44 pmOctober 31, 2025 3:44 pm

With the conclusion of the 2025 California Legislative Session, and almost all of the printing of all the Daily Journals for both houses, I have compiled a chart below of the legislator letters to the Daily Journals in the Assembly...

Rep Derek Tran Rakes In Corporate Cash Despite Campaign Pledge

October 31, 2025 2:02 pmOctober 31, 2025 2:05 pm

California Democrat Congressman Derek Tran (CA-45) built his campaign around rejecting corporate PAC money and “Big Oil” donations, even earning endorsements from End Citizens United and the League of Conservation Voters for those pledges, but his latest FEC filings tell...

AZ Lawmaker Eyes Speed-Limiting Tech for Repeat Offenders Amid Rising Road Fatalities

October 31, 2025 1:19 pmOctober 31, 2025 1:19 pm

An Arizona state representative plans to introduce legislation next year that would allow courts to mandate the installation of speed-limiting devices in vehicles owned by drivers convicted of criminal speeding, offering an alternative to license suspension. State Rep. Quang Nguyen...

Poll: Proposition 50 Leading By a Hefty 22-point Margin One Week Before the Election

October 31, 2025 11:04 amOctober 31, 2025 11:05 am

A final pre-election survey conducted by Berkeley IGS (see below) finds 60 percent of Californian’s likely voters voting Yes on Proposition 50, while just 38 percent are voting No. The survey also reveals that the results are highly partisan with...

California’s Poverty Machine Manages Misery Instead of Solving It

October 31, 2025 10:10 amOctober 31, 2025 10:10 am

Something is broken in California. As the federal shutdown threatens to cut off food assistance for 5.5 million residents, we’re once again reminded that our state, the world’s fourth-largest economy (or 5th), is a symbol of wealth and a portrait...

Vessel Sanitation

October 31, 2025 6:00 amOctober 31, 2025 6:01 am

Division 3, Chapter 6 of the Harbors and Navigation Code deals with vessel sanitation. Section 775 contains three legislative findings and declarations, as well as a statement of legislative intent that every vessel with a toilet shall comply with federal...

Scary Governor Newsom

October 31, 2025 3:45 amOctober 31, 2025 3:46 am

I served in the California State Senate for six years, from 2015 to 2020. While there I was given an office on the second floor not far from being able to observe what occured on the first floor of the...