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Ringside: Can an Abundance Agenda Unite Business?

June 13, 2024 2:55 amJune 12, 2024 9:19 pm

Scarcity and high prices are not an inevitable fact of life in California. They are the result of political choices. For nearly 50 years, and with escalating severity that shows no sign of abating, politicians in California have enacted legislation...

Ringside: The Death and Resurrection of CAGOP

June 11, 2024 6:36 amJune 11, 2024 6:41 am

California’s GOP is dead. Candidates for state office rarely gain more than 40 percent of the vote, and GOP representation in the State Senate stands at half that, 20 percent (8 seats out of 40), and in the State Assembly 21 percent (17...

Ringside: Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism, Inc.

May 16, 2024 7:19 amMay 16, 2024 7:19 am

The California Environmental Quality Act was passed by the state legislature in 1971. At that time, it was the first legislation of its kind in the nation, if not the world. Its original intent was to “inform government decision makers and...

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, Police Officer Larry Turner To Face Each Other In November

March 15, 2024 4:57 pmMarch 15, 2024 4:57 pm

Current San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego police office Larry Turner officially moved on from the primary election for San Diego Mayor on Thursday, with the two now set to face each other this November in the General...

Sacramento: Hapless on Homeless

March 2, 2024 7:34 amMarch 2, 2024 7:37 am

The present day Sacramento homeless situation came to national attention in early 2009 when television journalist, and Sacramento native, Lisa Ling broadcast footage of what now would be considered a relatively small encampment along the American River on the then...

Sacramento City Officials Blow Through $57 Million on Homeless in 2023

February 23, 2024 10:03 amJune 6, 2024 3:04 pm

The City of Sacramento blew through $57 Million on homeless spending in 2023. But the city has even more homeless drug addicts living on city streets than just a few years ago. “The significant growth of the Sacramento homeless population...

California Assemblymen Introduce a Legitimate Bill to Solve Homelessness

February 16, 2024 2:55 amFebruary 16, 2024 2:56 am

Two California Assemblymen have introduced a bill to address life beyond homelessness. Assemblymen Josh Hoover (R-Folsom) and Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin) announced Assembly Bill 2417 “to expand and improve California’s response to our state’s homelessness crisis. This legislation increases funding flexibility...