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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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McCarthy Wants CA High-Speed Rail Funding Repurposed For Water Storage Projects

March 20, 2019 6:15 amMarch 25, 2019 1:13 pm

Republican California Congressman Kevin McCarthy has fired the next volley in the war over the 3.5 billion in federal funds meant for the state’s troubled high speed rail project. McCarthy (R-CA), Congressional Representative for most of Kern, Tulare and Northeast...

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Why California is Club Med For Murderers

March 18, 2019 2:05 amMarch 18, 2019 1:01 pm

A false-documented Salvadoran national calling himself Carlos Eduardo Arevalo Carranza has been arrested for the murder of Bambi Larson, 59, in San Jose. As ABC News reported, Larson suffered “extensive and deep wounds” and police tracked down the suspect by...