Author: Katy Grimes
Katy Grimes, the Editor in Chief of the California Globe, is a long-time Investigative Journalist covering the California State Capitol, and the co-author of California's War Against Donald Trump: Who Wins? Who Loses?
Zuckerberg to Replace Facebook ‘Fact Checkers’ With Community Notes
Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...
SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’
The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters, which reduced property tax rates on homes, businesses, and farms by about 57%. Opponents have long claimed that because of...
The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves
U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...
Who and What is Behind Wrecking Our Food Supply?
What is happening to our food supply? Cows are under attack, meat packing and food processing plants have burned to the ground across the country, avian flu was unleashed and millions of chickens have been culled. California growers and ranchers...
California Minimum Wage Madness
“Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Economist Thomas Sowell explained in 2013. “As for being ‘compassionate’ toward ‘the poor,’ this assumes that there is some enduring class of...
California Gas Prices Still Highest in the Country, but a Little Less High
Just ahead of Christmas, California Governor Gavin Newsom took credit for a drop in gas prices. But that is like celebrating being a little less sick. “California Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated a gas price decline of 89 cents per gallon...