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California Legislature Passes Health Insurance Individual Mandate Penalty

June 25, 2019 6:40 amJanuary 16, 2020 12:19 pm

Despite that 93 percent of Californians have health insurance, the California Legislature voted Monday to tax California citizens who do not buy health insurance. This penalty revenue will be used to fund health insurance subsidies to encourage more people to purchase...

SMUD Utility ‘Summer Rates’ Surge To Accommodate Increasing Renewable Cost Subsidies

June 25, 2019 2:07 amJune 26, 2019 6:04 am

On June 1st, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District began charging Sacramento electricity users and ratepayers a new rate system that charges residential users higher rates between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m… much higher rates, just in time to get home...

Just How Patriotic is California Compared to Other 49 States?

June 24, 2019 11:27 amJune 24, 2019 12:28 pm

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and is a holiday that many Americans look forward to. Camping trips, barbecues, fireworks displays...

LA’s Purple Line Subway Expansion: Under a Public School, Through Methane Zone and Abandoned Oil Wells

June 24, 2019 2:06 amJune 25, 2019 6:11 am

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding a line of the Los Angeles subway system directly beneath the historic Beverly Hills High School, through ground littered with more than 80 abandoned oil wells and saturated with methane gas and...

Sen. Wiener’s SB 50 is Back; Will Strip Zoning and Land-Use Requirements From Any Type of Housing

June 22, 2019 9:29 amJune 24, 2019 12:43 pm

Unable to accept the killing of his controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has found the backdoor answer to reviving it: Wiener has replaced the language in two other bills with most of his SB 50...

The ‘Right To Choose’ Does not Apply to Childhood Vaccinations Under Senate Bill 276

June 21, 2019 2:02 amJune 24, 2019 12:08 pm

A five-hour hearing Thursday in the Assembly Health Committee on another vaccination bill, SB 276 by Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), had a turnout of thousands of angry parents worried about the explosion of anaphylactic allergies, pediatric cancers, autism, autoimmune diseases,...

Record Public Safety and Judicial Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 20, 2019 8:31 amJune 21, 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. “Pork barrel” is a metaphor...