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UPDATED: California Globe Has a Hater

June 28, 2023 2:45 amJune 29, 2023 6:34 am

UPDATE below The Globe receives unpleasant emails occasionally from people objecting to our coverage of state politics for myriad reasons. We received an email this week from someone displeased with our recent reporting. “Mike Lunsford” emailed me with some pretty...

Take the Weekly California Globe Survey!

April 23, 2021 7:16 amApril 23, 2021 7:43 am

Last week we introduced a new feature – weekly survey questions. Our first survey was about vaccine passports and the recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Take the survey HERE this week: California Globe Survey We want to hear...

Coronavirus Side Effect: CalPERS Drops to 60% Funded

May 5, 2020 7:08 amMay 5, 2020 7:38 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus emergency management policy to shut down the economy rather than triage the vulnerable has resulted in a 10 percent investment fund loss for the California Employees Retirement System – CalPERS – from 70 to 60 percent...

Gov. Newsom Reappoints Green Power CEO to CA Grid Operator Board

March 10, 2020 3:03 pmMarch 10, 2020 3:17 pm

Gov. Newsom recently re-appointed Angelina Galiteva to the Board of Governors of the California power grid operator – Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) – even though she is CEO of a solar systems company and advocates “the end of cheap energy.” ...

GOP Uses Obama Law to Fund Dams Barred By State Water Bond

March 9, 2020 2:12 amMarch 9, 2020 7:32 am

The 2014 California Water Bond mainly benefits constituents of the Democrat Party, such as environmentalists, scientists, commercial fishermen, Indian tribes and Bay-Delta farmers to the exclusion of Central Valley farmers and towns for which the federal Central Valley Project was...

Rooftop solar monopoly

March 2, 2020 6:31 amMarch 2, 2020 6:59 am

Now that the rooftop mandate for new homes has been relaxed to allow communities to choose cheaper power from municipal solar farms, will new homeowners be allowed to choose cheaper and cleaner conventional energy sources through local Community Choice energy?...

A Bumper Crop of Farmers Protest Water Plan at Capitol

August 20, 2018 4:08 pmAugust 22, 2018 7:54 am

Anyone who’s seen Chinatown knows there’s really only one issue that matters in California politics. Water. That sentiment was on display by farmers and others who showed up in force to express their opposition before tomorrow’s hearing on a proposal...