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Assemblywoman Castillo: Just Say No to Genetically Engineered Pets

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

Biotech firms are ushering in a new era of engineered animals including glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats, dire wolves and unicorns. Developments by the Los Angeles Project and Colossal Biosciences using CRISPR gene editing, cloning, and related techniques, though some animals remain...

Republican Study Committee Slams Gov. Newsom’s Response to Trump CA Visit

August 5, 2026 4:04 pmAugust 5, 2026 4:04 pm

President Trump’s visit to California this week, and Governor Gavin Newsom’s childish response, elicited reactions from the Republican Study Committee’s California Members. Governor Newsom’s response on X likely was penned by his PR flaks, but attributed to the governor: Donald...

Alameda County $30 Wage Won’t Appear on November Ballot

August 5, 2026 10:29 amAugust 5, 2026 10:32 am

Alameda County is proposing to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour, following similar proposals in Los Angeles, the Globe reported in March. However, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to “study” the $30 per hour minimum...

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 24, 2026 11:08 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...