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Historical Look at Bills That Became Law Without the Governor’s Signature

November 3, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 3, 2025 2:01 pm

In California, the Governor has three options when a bill reaches his desk: sign the bill (and it becomes a statute), veto the bill (and the bill does not become law, unless the Legislature overrides the veto), or allow the...

Snapshot of Bill Signing Messages

October 20, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 20, 2025 2:01 pm

The following chart covers five Governors and their bill signing messages that accompany bills. I only have them for the second term of Governor Wilson, but then all of the years for the current and three prior governors. This chart...

Gov. Newsom’s Attempt to Fast-Track Delta Tunnel Project Rejected by Legislature, Again

September 11, 2025 1:53 pmSeptember 11, 2025 1:53 pm

The California Legislature just killed the Delta Tunnel project, again, by refusing to do anything on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pet project. “A Coalition Stops Trailer Bills Threatening the Bay-Delta and Communities Now advancing real water solutions rooted in creating local...

Sacramento City Council Votes Homeless Out of City Hall… and Back to the Streets

July 31, 2025 3:30 amAugust 2, 2025 7:48 am

Earlier this month, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty announced a new policy to prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight. His policy would overturn former Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s original ordinance allowing homeless vagrants to sleep on City Hall grounds...

How Did California’s Public Education Go From Best in the US to Worst?

July 9, 2025 2:00 pmJuly 10, 2025 12:29 pm

American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies, sacrificing school children on the altar of power and control. My parents were teachers throughout the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, into 2000’s. They saw...

California’s Sordid Trans History: Young Female Athletes are Treated Immorally and Dishonestly

June 2, 2025 7:43 amJune 3, 2025 7:26 am

Men dressing in women’s clothing and playing on women’s sports teams should be ridiculed and perpetrators should be shunned. Instead, in California’s current bizarre opposite world, “trans-women” athletes are competing in women’s sports and dominating, and even physically harming female...

Amador County Sheriff Will Work with ICE Over Criminal Illegal Aliens

March 3, 2025 2:55 amMarch 3, 2025 2:56 am

Amador County Sheriff Gary Redman is the first sheriff in California to publicly state that he will cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement when dealing with criminal illegal aliens. “I’m the first Sheriff to come out strong on a common...