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“The United States today filed a civil complaint against the state of California, several of its officers, the California Air Resources Board, and the Western Climate Initiative Inc., for unlawfully entering a cap and trade agreement with the Canadian Province...

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California Community Colleges’ New Mandate To Serve DACA Students Has No Funding

October 22, 2019 11:51 amOctober 24, 2019 8:43 am

Community colleges serve the largest number of undocumented students of any of California’s higher education systems, but continue to receive the lowest per student funding levels. Now that Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 1645 into law, California Community...

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Governor Newsom Takes a Hike

July 2, 2019 2:33 amJuly 2, 2019 8:06 am

“California is struggling to give raises to state workers who were supposed to get them last year even as a new contract year begins,” reports Wes Venteicher of the Sacramento Bee. The delay involves 1,000 members of Professional Engineers in...

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Newsom Deploys Budget Weapon

July 1, 2019 2:05 amJuly 1, 2019 3:37 am

As Katy Grimes noted, Governor Gavin Newsom got “most of what he wants” in California’s 2019-20 budget, including taxpayer-funded health care for those illegally present in the state. On the other hand, some regions of California will not be getting...

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High Speed Rail’s Top Consultant Suspended After Assemblyman Requests Ethics Investigation

June 5, 2019 2:05 amJune 6, 2019 5:09 am

Assemblyman Jim Patterson says it took almost three years to get approval for an audit of the California High Speed Rail Authority… and what an audit it was. “The ruling Party really pushed it off,” said Patterson, a Republican from...

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Derailed: Trump Admin Pulls $1B in Funding for California High-Speed Rail Project

May 16, 2019 9:52 pmMay 17, 2019 6:25 am

The Trump Administration’s Federal Railroad Administration announced Thursday it will not be providing California the nearly $1 billion promised for the High Speed Rail project. California “repeatedly failed to comply with the terms” of its grant, “failed to make reasonable...

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Sacramento’s Software Incompetence in the Software Capital of the World

April 4, 2019 6:00 pmApril 6, 2019 5:10 am

California owns a well-deserved reputation as being the global epicenter of high technology. In nearly every critical area, from aerospace to biotech, from nanotech to green tech, to telecommunications, to chip design, California’s universities and private companies are either the...

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U.S. Dept. of Justice Files Lawsuit Against California’s Illegal Climate Agreement with Quebec

California Community Colleges’ New Mandate To Serve DACA Students Has No Funding

Governor Newsom Takes a Hike

Newsom Deploys Budget Weapon

High Speed Rail’s Top Consultant Suspended After Assemblyman Requests Ethics Investigation

Derailed: Trump Admin Pulls $1B in Funding for California High-Speed Rail Project

Sacramento’s Software Incompetence in the Software Capital of the World