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California Doubles Down on COVID-Era Overreach with AB 144

September 23, 2025 7:00 amSeptember 23, 2025 7:33 pm

California lawmakers just proved they learned nothing from the COVID years. In the final hours of session, they gutted and amended Assembly Bill 144 — handing the Department of Public Health unchecked power to dictate vaccines for all Californians, while...

Why the Senate Cover-Up of the Absent Senator?

June 30, 2025 10:00 amJune 30, 2025 2:01 pm

Friday, after 5:00pm, the Globe received an email from Senate Rules, with a letter attached and signed by Senate Secretary Erika Contreras dripping with attitude, announcing that despite their previous stonewalled response to my California Public Records Request seeking public...

Is Senator Eloise Gomez Reyes Serving as an Elected State Senator or Not?

June 24, 2025 3:04 pmJune 24, 2025 3:07 pm

California State lawmakers and bureaucrats are appearing more and more like members of the Stalinist-era political elite in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed a gratuitous level of luxury, power and privilege. Our lawmakers and appointed bureaucrats certainly are, as they snub...

Who Are California’s Winners and Losers of 2020?

January 1, 2021 2:07 amJanuary 4, 2021 11:02 am

While 2020 has been a perfectly horrible year thanks to abusive politicians, the gross mismanagement of the coronavirus, job loss and business closures, and the tanking of the economy, not all politicians are corrupt or obsessed with power. However, the...

Senate Resolution 86 a Power Grab by Sen. President Toni Atkins During ‘Emergency?’

March 19, 2020 2:21 amMarch 19, 2020 11:21 am

If Senators or Assembly members can vote remotely, does California need a full time Legislature? While most of the California public and news media was focused on the coronavirus earlier this week, the California State Senate worked into the...