Katy Grimes – Page 157 – California Globe

FTC, Calif. AG Lawsuits to Block Kroger-Albertson’s Supermarket Merger

March 7, 2024 2:45 amMarch 7, 2024 7:01 am

The Federal Trade Commission announced in late February it had filed a lawsuit to block the largest proposed supermarket merger in U.S. history—Kroger Company’s $24.6 billion acquisition of the Albertsons Companies, Inc., alleging that the deal is anticompetitive. The “Largest...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Fast Food Council: How to Kill Another Industry

March 6, 2024 8:13 amMarch 7, 2024 6:28 am

With California Governor Gavin Newsom mired in “PaneraGate,” after he exempted a billionaire buddy from California’s new $20 minimum wage law, people are asking about this new Fast Food Council the Governor just announced. Newsom’s friend, Billionaire Greg Flynn owns...

PaneraGate: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Biggest ‘Blunder’ Since French LaundryGate

March 5, 2024 3:10 amMarch 6, 2024 3:59 pm

We now know that California Governor Gavin Newsom exempted a billionaire buddy from California’s new $20 minimum wage law. Billionaire Greg Flynn owns more than two dozen Panera Bread locations in California, as well as Applebee’s, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell,...

Steve Garvey Leading in California Senate Race Sends Message to Republican Voters

March 4, 2024 4:13 pmMarch 5, 2024 10:49 am

With former Major League Baseball player Steve Garvey narrowly leading in the U.S. Senate race, it’s past time to start praying that California Republicans don’t crap in their own nest again. Republican voters tend to be a fickle bunch. They...

Another First from California: the Nation’s First Transgender Voting Place

March 4, 2024 7:41 amMarch 4, 2024 7:41 am

California is amazing. So many firsts in the nation – the first state to outlaw Foie Gras and shark fin soup, the first state to outlaw fur, the first state to fund abortion tourism, the first state to pay for...

Did Fish and Game Officials Just Cause 850,000 Juvenile Salmon to Die?

March 3, 2024 9:53 amMarch 3, 2024 2:42 pm

The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold to Californians as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish,” the Globe reported. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

California Republicans are Gaining Traction in Voter Registrations

March 2, 2024 10:00 amMarch 2, 2024 10:01 am

Well this is interesting – “the percentage share of registered Republican voters increased in every single one of California’s counties, assembly, state senate, and congressional districts,” according to Rob Pyres, research director for the California Target Book. Wait – what???...