June 15 is the deadline for the passage of the California budget, which must be passed by midnight. As of Friday afternoon, lawmakers who are members of the Conference Committee on the Budget were still waiting around for news of...
Presidential candidate California Sen. Kamala Harris has called President Donald Trump’s tariff threat against Mexico the “Trump trade tax” and says it could cost California “like 50,000 jobs because of it,” McClatchy reported. The numbers Harris used are from a...
A bill by San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener would allow prison inmates to decide their own sex, how they want to be addressed (Mr. Miss, Mrs. Ms.), and would require California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials to refer to...
In February of 2018, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra created the Bureau of Environmental Justice within the Environment Section at the California Department of Justice. The mission of this agency within an agency is “to protect people and communities that...
Following the contentious Los Angeles Unified School District strike in January, the controversial property tax hike proposed by the school district went down in a resounding defeat Tuesday. Measure EE garnered only about 45 percent of voter approval when it...
“Today’s election did not go our way. Although some ballots remain to be counted, it’s not enough to overcome our current deficit of 53 percent to 47 percent. Congratulations to Senator-elect Brian Dahle. I wish him the best in his...
Assemblyman Jim Patterson says it took almost three years to get approval for an audit of the California High Speed Rail Authority… and what an audit it was. “The ruling Party really pushed it off,” said Patterson, a Republican from...