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CA Congressmen Urge Gov. Newsom to Protect Wildfire Prevention Goat Herds

August 5, 2026 6:00 amAugust 5, 2026 6:01 am

Mid-July, the Globe reported that a business-killing labor bill in the California Legislature is coming for the state’s goat herders. As hard as that is to believe, the back story is important: After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural...

Corrupt Media Will Not Report on the Good Economic News and Booming Manufacturing Sector

August 4, 2026 5:00 pmAugust 4, 2026 6:44 pm

Tuesday has been a strong blowout-style rally day on Wall Street, with major U.S. indexes surging amid tech and AI strength, solid corporate earnings, and easing oil prices tied to Middle East developments. “Boomsday Not Doomsday: AI Will Make Us...

Proposition 38 Benefits its Billionaire Backers

August 4, 2026 9:12 amAugust 4, 2026 11:38 am

Proposition 38, the November ballot measure designed to fund medical research, is designed to be exclusively directed to a single research institute founded by the top donor of the ballot measure: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy (CIII), a...

California Assembly Republicans Elect Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo after Ousting Frat Boy Leader Heath Flora

August 3, 2026 8:36 pmAugust 7, 2026 1:00 pm

California Assembly Republicans replaced Heath Flora (R-Ripon) as minority leader Monday, and quickly elected Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo (R-Tulare) to the leadership position. The Globe has long reported on Flora’s troubled leadership, including annual Kentucky Derby junkets, and most recently, voting...

Fatcat Lobbyist Rusty Areias Now Trying to Get Confirmed as UC Regent

August 3, 2026 2:30 pmAugust 3, 2026 3:32 pm

Back in June, the Globe reported on Rusty Areias attempting to get a state highway named after him. Both Democrats and Republicans on the California Assembly Transportation Committee blocked the attempt by Areias and his powerful lobbyist colleagues. “Bizarre backroom...

Newsom Admin’s Bad Job of Collecting Mandated Statewide Drug Treatment Outcome Data

August 3, 2026 6:00 amAugust 3, 2026 6:01 am

Governor Newsom’s administration has done a very bad job collecting the mandated and very important statewide drug treatment outcome data. Thus, there is not valid treatment outcome information to determine who’s providing effective treatment and for whom. As one industry...

Equipment Manufacturers Meeting on CARB Engine Emissions Regulatory Landscape: The Need for Regulatory Certainty

August 1, 2026 6:30 amAugust 3, 2026 8:03 am

Equipment manufacturing executives met with California Air Resources Board (CARB) leadership in Sacramento on Wednesday for an off-the-record discussion. This followed CARB’s July 2, 2026, approval of $70 million in incentives aimed at cutting emissions from off-road equipment. Media were...