Katy Grimes – California Globe

California Golden Fleece® Award 2026 Goes to California’s Nuclear Power Ban

May 8, 2026 9:00 amMay 8, 2026 11:28 am

In California, the land of clean, green recycling, wind and solar, bicyclists, public transit, electric cars and banned plastic bags, every economic energy source should be used. Instead, the largest hydroelectric dam removal project in U.S. history was completed last...

Steve Hilton Alleging CHIRLA Using Illegal Immigrants to Campaign for Xavier Becerra for Governor

May 7, 2026 2:27 pmMay 7, 2026 2:27 pm

Republican Candidate for California Governor Steve Hilton unleashed a bombshell Wednesday against Democrat candidate Xavier Becerra: Hilton alleges that California taxpayer funding is being used by the Becerra campaign to pay for illegal immigrants to campaign for Xavier Becerra, in...

New California Bill Would Let Deported Professors Keep Teaching under ‘Catastrophic Leave?’

May 6, 2026 3:58 pmMay 6, 2026 4:01 pm

A new bill introduced in February 2026 from California Assemblyman Mike Gipson (D-Los Angeles) would let illegal immigrant community college professors who get deported, continue to teach students remotely. From the “you can’t make this $@*! up file, Assembly Bill...

Racial Redistricting: How the Supreme Court Ruling Could Affect California’s Prop 50

May 6, 2026 8:18 amMay 7, 2026 11:12 pm

California’s controversial mid-decade redistricting scheme is on notice: not only did the mapmaker who drew the map publicly state that districts were designed to “bolster” Latino voting strength and to hit specific racial targets, last week’s Supreme Court ruling in...

US Treasury Announces Form 990 Transparency Initiative to Expose Hidden Funding and Strengthen Oversight

May 6, 2026 6:00 amMay 6, 2026 9:33 am

For two decades I’ve been on a crusade to expose fraudulent non-profit organizations, to no avail. Even when Jerry Brown was California Attorney General 2007 – 2011, I reported several dubious non-profits, but never saw any investigations. After Jerry Brown,...

California Lettuce Growers Regulatory Compliance 1,400% Higher Per Acre Since 2006 When CA Climate Change Bill was Passed

May 5, 2026 12:32 pmMay 6, 2026 4:02 pm

A 2025 Cal Poly research paper revealed that California lettuce growers now spend 12.6% of their total production costs on regulatory compliance. The Cal Poly study, which updated prior analyses in 2006 and 2017, titled “Two Decades of Change: Evolving...

First Partner Siebel Newsom Conflates CA’s Historic Spending on Youth Mental Health With Results

May 4, 2026 12:22 pmMay 4, 2026 5:30 pm

“First Partner Siebel Newsom celebrates state’s historic investments in youth mental health at South LA’s Exposition Park, blasts the headline in an email from Governor Gavin Newsom’s office. We took care of that little glitch and rewrote the headline for...