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Newsom’s Proposed Education Budget Grows as Students Test Scores Continue to Drop

January 16, 2024 2:31 pmJanuary 17, 2024 3:49 pm

Last week California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his 2024-2025 state budget, feigning indignation over the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s recent update on the state’s actual budget deficit, which the LAO put at $68 billion. Newsom’s $330 billion budget has supposedly been...

Pfizer COVID Campaign Contributions: $162,400 to California Legislators 2021-22

January 16, 2024 2:55 amJanuary 16, 2024 1:34 pm

In 2021-2022, a two-year period, Pfizer gave more than $8.5 million to elected members of all of State Legislatures throughout the country. The Pfizer 2021-2022 campaign also gave $162,400 to California Lawmakers for what? To push the COVID vaccine… or...

New Guide to California State Government Published

January 15, 2024 2:45 amJanuary 15, 2024 2:46 am

Regular California Globe contributor Chris Micheli has just released his newest book, which is titled “A Practical Guide to California State Government: FAQs and Glossary of Terms.” The book contains nearly 80 short chapters and a glossary of terms and...

Sacramento DA Files Brief as SCOTUS Justices Take up Homeless Camping Ban Case

January 14, 2024 12:44 pmJanuary 14, 2024 12:44 pm

The United States Supreme Court announced on Friday they’ve accepted a case to decide whether Grants Pass, a city in Oregon, can enforce its ban on homeless public camping. Sacramento’s District Attorney Thien Ho has been a pioneer on homeless...

KCRA Leaves Out Most Important Detail in Article about Man Caught Planting Explosives Along Highway

January 13, 2024 8:57 amJanuary 13, 2024 9:01 am

An article about a “man accused of planting explosives along roads, highways in El Dorado, Sacramento counties,” caught my eye this morning. KCRA Channel 3 reported: Placing explosives along roads and highways is what landed a man in jail, the...

$478,000 Per Unit: Homeless ‘Tiny’ Apartments Now Open in Sacramento

January 11, 2024 8:17 amJanuary 12, 2024 4:56 pm

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg proudly announced “Sacramento’s historic Capitol Park Hotel reopens this week as St. Clare at Capitol Park, a permanent supportive housing complex for people experiencing homelessness.” Calling the state’s homeless vagrant population “unhoused” has justified spending billions...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Disappears $30 Billion of the Deficit in New Budget

January 10, 2024 1:47 pmJanuary 10, 2024 1:47 pm

Where did $30 billion of California’s budget deficit go? California Governor Gavin Newsom put on quite a budget show this morning, feigning indignation over the Legislative Analyst’s Office’s recent update on the state’s actual budget deficit, which the LAO put...