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Sen. Wiener’s SB 79: Forcing Single-Family Neighborhoods to Accept Low Income High-Rise Apartments Next Door

July 7, 2025 10:28 amJuly 23, 2025 4:54 pm

SB 79 by Democrat State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco would force single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings. This favorite policy of Sen. Wiener goes back to 2019 when he authored the controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, which...

U.S. Labor Secretary Cutting 63 Regulations on Work Rules Fulfilling Trump Promise

July 7, 2025 2:55 amJuly 7, 2025 6:11 am

The Trump Administration Department of Labor gave America an early Independence Day gift last week: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced she will cut 63 costly and burdensome regulations, anti-business holdovers from the Obama and Biden administrations. The idea is to...

Celebrating America’s 249th Birthday in a Small Town

July 5, 2025 9:36 amJuly 5, 2025 9:36 am

As California Governor Gavin Newsom was probably sipping on a PlumpJack Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and bashing the President for the One Big Beautiful Bill passage, as well as hard-timing him over fires which broke out of federal land in California,...

On Independence Day Remember the Declaration of Independence

July 4, 2025 3:00 amJuly 4, 2025 3:01 am

America’s revolutionary Charter of Freedom, the Declaration of Independence is a document upon which our nation’s founding principles were established, and set the course for our nation on a journey of freedom. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the...

One Big Beautiful Bill Passes House, Goes to Trump for July 4 Signature

July 3, 2025 5:20 pmJuly 7, 2025 6:04 am

“OBBB” as the One Big Beautiful Bill is nicknamed, has passed the House and is one its way to President Donald Trump for a July 4th signing. What a symbolic signing that will be. There’s a lot to love in...

Sacramento Mayor McCarty Kicks Homeless Out of City Hall

July 3, 2025 8:04 amJuly 3, 2025 5:24 pm

Last week, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty announced a new policy to prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight. His policy would overturn former Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s original ordinance allowing homeless vagrants to sleep on City Hall grounds overnight....

New California Government Guidebooks Available

July 2, 2025 10:00 amJuly 2, 2025 10:01 am

Long-time Globe contributor Chris Micheli has recently published two additional books in his series about California state government. The first book offers practice tips on working with state government, from the legislative process to the executive branch. The second book...