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Consequences for Gascon?

June 21, 2024 4:19 pmJune 21, 2024 4:19 pm

Wealthy people tend to be immune to crime – that is, the day-to-day violent kind of crime. While claims involving novel interpretations of the IRS code, a dodgy lawyer, a business manager that may be more interested in taking care...

A Living Parody: Alleged Berkeley Bomber Arrested

June 19, 2024 2:36 pmJune 19, 2024 2:36 pm

If you have recently been wondering why the world seems so awful these days, we may have found the poster boy. He’s a white guy with a PhD in African-American studies, he’s 34, he lives with his parents in their...

South Coast Air Quality District Enacts Yet Another Gas Heater Rule

June 19, 2024 11:52 amJune 19, 2024 11:52 am

The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is at it again, enacting a new rule that will force restaurants and other businesses and just regular folks with pools and hot tubs to replace their more efficient, less costly gas...

‘Poison Pills’ or Suicide Pact – Dems Prop 47 Amendment Schemes is Worse Than You Think

June 18, 2024 10:16 amJune 18, 2024 10:43 am

There are seven lies making their way through the California legislature right now that may even be less true – if that is possible – than first surmised. Terrified voters will amend the infamous Proposition 47 – which obliterated the...

National Opposition to CARB Rail Rule Growing

June 17, 2024 3:42 pmJune 17, 2024 3:42 pm

The California Air Resource Board (CARB), never a shrinking violet when it comes to regulating things out of existence, is running into national opposition in its bid to force railroads to go to zero-emission locomotives. Last fall, CARB approved its...

Stealth Zoning: Cities Allowing the Sale of ‘Granny Flats’

June 17, 2024 7:00 amJune 17, 2024 7:01 am

They were called “granny flats” when government agencies first started discussing allowing “additional dwelling units” (ADUs) to be created in single-family zoned areas. Sounds nice – a place for grandma (or big mommy and mops and grangran or whatever they...

Gascon Facing Deposition Demand: Deputy DA Sued Him Over Political Retaliation

June 14, 2024 4:03 pmJune 14, 2024 4:03 pm

One of the many Los Angeles County deputy district attorneys who sued their boss George Gascon has gone back to court, this time to force Gascon to sit for a long-avoided deposition in the case. John Lewin, most well known...