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Sacramento Mayor, City Council Get Raises While Crime Spikes, Homeless Multiply, and City Still Locked Down

May 7, 2021 9:21 amMay 7, 2021 10:13 am

As many Sacramento residents are still locked down and unemployed, Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the Sacramento City Council and City Manager are getting big raises, as crime spikes in the city, the drug-addicted homeless are only multiplying, and while still in...

Why Do Californians Have to Choose Between Food, Agriculture, and Fish?

May 6, 2021 8:34 amMay 7, 2021 3:46 pm

The long time political dispute between California farmers and state and federal water regulators predates the latest drought and will continue long after, unless some political honesty takes place. Most of the media and public officials paint California farmers and...

California #50 (again) in Chief Executive Mag’s Best & Worst States For Business 2021

May 5, 2021 3:57 pmMay 7, 2021 7:07 am

In 2020, Tesla founder Elon Musk announced he had enough of California’s lockdowns and left California for Austin Texas, and took more than 10,000 jobs with him. Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its global headquarters move to Houston, Texas from California. Oracle announced...

Appellate Court Decision on Kiley/Gallagher Lawsuit Against Gov. Newsom’s ‘One Man Rule’

May 5, 2021 1:54 pmMay 5, 2021 2:07 pm

The lawsuit filed by Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley is to determine whether the governor has the emergency authority to make law without legislative authority, using his emergency powers during the COVID shutdown of the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom...

UC Berkeley 2021 Conference on ‘Male Supremacism and Right-Wing Studies’

May 4, 2021 1:27 pm

It’s not often that the general public gets a peek inside modern-day academia. The Globe got that peek this week thanks to a friend who forwarded an email from the University of California, Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, which is...

CA National Guard Base Camp Roberts to House Thousands of Border Migrants

May 4, 2021 7:19 am

“U.S. military bases are now being used for illegal immigrants’ housing in addition to the Donna, Texas border detention facility, the convention center in Dallas, and San Diego Convention Center,” the Globe reported in early April. “Migrants are currently being held...

Roughly 20% of Electric Vehicle Owners in California Replaced Cars with Gas Ones, New Study Shows

May 4, 2021 2:12 amMay 3, 2021 6:13 pm

With California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mandated phase-out of gas-powered automobiles, we learn that one in five plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) owners switched back to owning gas-powered cars, because charging the batteries was a hassle, new research reports. Business Insider reported...