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Get Ready For Higher Gas Costs In Time for California Summer Travel

June 17, 2019 7:56 pmJune 18, 2019 2:13 pm

On July 1, just in time for summer road trips, California’s gas tax will go up another 5.6 cents. The increase occurs even as the rest of the country is looking at gas decreases, with drivers in some states paying...

CalEPA and California Air Board Exempted In Budget From Open Meetings Law – Again

June 17, 2019 7:41 amJune 18, 2019 8:13 am

The Omnibus Resources Trailer Bill for 2019-20, contains various statutory changes “necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2019.” Yet it contains language exempting a commission of the California Air Resources Board and CalEPA from the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act,...

Record Health and Human Services Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 17, 2019 2:06 amJune 18, 2019 7:03 am

California’s largest state budget ever — $215 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. “Pork barrel” is a...

CA Democrat Rep. Norma Torres Says She’s Tired of ‘Sex-Starved’ Male Colleagues Talking About Abortion

June 14, 2019 3:28 pmJune 14, 2019 3:33 pm

While debating legislation on the House floor Wednesday that includes language related to Title X funding, Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) said she’s tired of hearing “so many sex-starved males on this floor talk about a woman’s right to choose,” the Hill...

Record Resources and Transportation Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 14, 2019 1:40 pmJune 17, 2019 6:14 am

California’s largest state budget ever — $215 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Largest Budget in CA History ‘Falls Short’: $2 billion in New Tax Increases and Lots of Pork

June 13, 2019 5:47 pmJune 14, 2019 1:41 pm

Thursday, the California State Legislature passed the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget along party lines. At $215 billion, it is the largest budget in the history of the state due to new tax increases and hundreds of millions of last minute...

California Legislation to Limit Predatory Lending Excludes Three Lenders

June 13, 2019 12:10 pmJune 13, 2019 10:10 am

Assembly Bill 539 by Assemblywoman Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) establishes an interest rate cap of 36 percent plus the federal funds rate for California Financing Law (CFL) licensee-provided consumer loans with principal amounts between $2,500 and $10,000. This bill also...