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Californians Choosing Between Gas or Groceries, Utility Bills or Rent

August 11, 2025 7:53 amAugust 12, 2025 6:26 am

How is it possible that in California, hard-working families must choose between gas or groceries, utility bills or rent? The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. today is $3.138. California’s cost for that same gallon...

How Many California Cities are Running Huge Budget Deficits?

May 12, 2025 3:00 amMay 12, 2025 6:24 am

How many California cities are running huge budget deficits, yet refuse to cut out the real cancer – the bureaucratic and administrative bloat? California’s colleges and universities too – they are cutting sports and academic programs, but not the high-salaried,...

The Amazing Gavin Newsom and CA’s 4th Largest Economy in the World

May 1, 2025 7:46 amMay 1, 2025 7:46 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is bragging that California owns the 4th largest economy in the world. But he leaves out some important details, like poverty, homelessness, crime, taxes, gas prices, housing costs, illegal aliens, welfare recipients, and a $1.3 trillion...

After Battering Oil/Gas Industry, Gavin Newsom Wants California Oil Refineries to Stay Open

April 26, 2025 2:55 amApril 28, 2025 6:22 am

In 1988, the state of California only imported about 4.5% of all the oil that we consumed in our state. By 2020 we were importing over 70%. California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not...

Valero Announces it Will Shut Down Benicia Refinery April 2026

April 16, 2025 12:39 pmApril 17, 2025 12:05 pm

California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not for the people. In another blow to California’s oil and gas industry, and the state’s fuel; supply, Valero Energy Corporation announced Wednesday it will shut down its...

Trump Vs. California… and Vice Versa

November 4, 2024 12:01 pmNovember 4, 2024 12:01 pm

If Donald Trump is elected president, a few things will happen here in California. First, Attorney General Rob Bonta will immediately begin filing nearly daily lawsuits against him, most likely even before Trump is sworn in. Bonta will do this...

Have Gov. Newsom and California Lawmakers Hit ‘Peak Stupid’ or ‘Peak Evil’?

July 16, 2024 8:47 amJuly 17, 2024 3:46 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom was more than 60 days overdue delivering his State of the State, and when he did “deliver” it, he did it via video message, political campaign style. The Globe asked, Just How Deranged Was Gov. Gavin...