California – California Globe

Courts Could, and Arguably Should, Yank The Billionaire Tax Before Voters Ever Get a Chance To Weigh In

April 28, 2026 6:00 amApril 28, 2026 6:01 am

The SEIU-backed punitive tax measure is claimed to have enough signatures to place the question on November’s ballot. The Secretary of State still needs to verify the signature count, and once that happens, that’s the moment to act. The proposed...

SEIU Announces They Have Enough Signatures for Billionaire-Tax to Qualify for Ballot

April 27, 2026 7:50 amApril 27, 2026 7:55 am

Supporters of the proposed California billionaire tax, sponsored by SEIU, announced Sunday that they had gathered nearly twice as many signatures as necessary to qualify the controversial proposal for the November ballot. Democrats and the SEIU are pushing the “2026...

DEFUND THE CHAOS: Congress Finally Pulls the Pin on Sanctuary City Funding

April 6, 2026 1:00 pmApril 6, 2026 1:01 pm

Here is a civics lesson your senator apparently cannot grasp: if a city refuses to cooperate with federal immigration law, it should not receive federal money. Enter H.R. 7640, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, advanced 22-11 by the House...

Gubernatorial Rivals Agree: California Got This Farmworker Law Wrong

April 2, 2026 6:30 amApril 2, 2026 12:54 pm

Political agreement is rare. What happened this week at Fresno State demands attention. On April 1, 2026, Republican and Democratic candidates for governor shared the stage and acknowledged a hard truth: California’s elected leaders got it wrong. The Legislature and...

Greenberg: A Novice Congressional Candidate Blows it on Energy Politics

March 25, 2026 7:16 amMarch 25, 2026 7:16 am

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway separating Iran from Oman and the United Arab Emirates, is a critical global chokepoint. Roughly 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade, about 20 million barrels per day, normally passes through it. Today...

Mamdani Proposes ‘White Homes’ Estate Tax; California Pushes Billionaire Tax

March 24, 2026 8:12 amMarch 24, 2026 12:22 pm

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is attempting to increase the estate tax “by lowering the exemption to $750,000 from its current value of $7.1 million” and massively raising the “top rate from 16% to 50%,” proclaiming his own apartheid. $750,000...

Aquaculture in California

March 19, 2026 2:00 pmMarch 19, 2026 2:01 pm

Fish and Game Code Division 12, Chapter 1 provides general provisions on aquaculture in this state. Section 15000 states that the business of aquaculture is governed by this division and is exempt from specified laws and any other provision of...