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SLO DA Dow Proposes Urgency Legislation for Looting During a Disaster and in Evacuation Areas

January 16, 2025 11:12 amJanuary 16, 2025 11:12 am

San Luis Obispo District Attorney Dan Dow announced Wednesday his proposal for urgency legislation for looting during a disaster and in evacuation areas. This is a great plan, particularly the bigger picture position with statewide legislation… and especially with the...

Benevolent CA Air Resources Board Withdraws Federal Waiver Allowing Truck Drivers to Stay in Business

January 15, 2025 7:44 amJanuary 15, 2025 9:31 am

“California has no choice but to abandon its groundbreaking rules for zero-emission trucks and cleaner locomotives,” CalMatters reports. That’s one way of acknowledging that the benevolent California Air Resources Board has withdrawn the federal waiver to enact emissions limits that...

Will California’s Wildfire Failures Usher in a Common Sense Political Era?

January 15, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 15, 2025 2:56 am

The eye-opening failures we’ve witnessed in the Pacific Palisades and Los Angeles fires could potentially occur all over the state. Because, it boils down to a top-to-bottom lack of leadership. This lack-of-leadership stems from hidden agendas, which stem from incompetent...

CA Legislative Republicans Get Their Special Session on Wildfires, Water and Insurance

January 13, 2025 4:35 pmJanuary 13, 2025 4:49 pm

California Legislative Republicans held a press conference calling for immediate action to ramp up California’s wildfire prevention efforts, stabilize the state’s insurance market and investigate why there was no water in fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades fires. Numerous companies...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is Running from His Past With Fire Response

January 13, 2025 7:20 amJanuary 13, 2025 8:48 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom who is clearly play-acting at being the governor of the largest state in the country, went on Meet the Press Sunday in an attempt to control the narrative on the devastating Pacific Palisades fires. He failed...

California Wildfires are NOT Climate Driven

January 11, 2025 8:37 amJanuary 14, 2025 5:25 pm

Yesterday the Sacramento Bee claimed that the Palisades fires are because of climate change. “No joke,” as the outgoing President likes to say. Sacramento Bee: Climate change fueled LA area wildfires in CA, experts say PBS: Warming climate created ‘perfect...

The Special Session Gov. Newsom and Lawmakers Should Have

January 10, 2025 11:48 amJanuary 12, 2025 8:13 am

The California Assembly gaveled in a special session of the Legislature to “Trump-proof” the state Thursday, as the wildfires continue to burn Los Angeles down. KCRA’s Ashley Zavala confronted Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Los Angeles) about the timing of the...