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Disposition of California Assembly Bills

October 17, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 17, 2025 2:01 pm

Over the past seventeen years, I have tracked by each year of the 2-year California Legislative Sessions a series of actions related to bills. The following chart lists those seven actions per session year. The first figure is the number...

How Many Bills Has Governor Newsom Considered?

October 16, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 16, 2025 8:51 pm

Now that the 2025 Legislative Session has ended and, as we head into the second and final year of the biennium session and Governor Gavin Newsom’s last year in office, how many bills have reached the Governor’s Desk? And how...

Ringside: Steps Toward Water Abundance

October 16, 2025 8:00 amOctober 16, 2025 8:01 am

Earlier this month a letter was sent to Governor Gavin Newsom from the State Water Contractors, an association of 27 water agencies that together deliver water to nearly 30 million Californians and irrigate nearly one million acres of farmland. This letter is...

2025 Session Governor Bill Signing Messages

October 14, 2025 2:09 pmOctober 14, 2025 2:09 pm

Like governors before him, Governor Gavin Newsom on occasion includes a “signing message” with bills that he has signed. Although only veto messages are specified in the California Constitution, governors have historically used signing messages to express their intent or...

Amid Mideast Peace, Gavin Newsom Acts Like a Child

October 14, 2025 8:00 amOctober 14, 2025 8:01 am

President Donald Trump continues to exhibit unparalleled support for American Jews, Israelis and the Holy Land. Yet today, amid the historic signing of a multi-national peace agreement in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to end the war in Gaza and facilitate the...

California Transit Agencies Cost Taxpayers $10 Billion Per Year – And They Want More

October 14, 2025 7:00 amOctober 14, 2025 8:38 am

By Marc Joffe and Athan Joshi California transit agencies required over $10 billion of taxpayer funds to provide service and maintain their capital plant in Fiscal Year 2023. This is the key finding of our analysis of data from 85...

Gov. Newsom Signs Sen Wiener’s SB 79 to ‘San Francisco’ all of California

October 13, 2025 2:55 amOctober 13, 2025 2:56 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed Senate Bill 79 by Democrat State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, to force single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings, overriding local zoning restrictions which ban dense development to favor “transit-oriented housing development.”...