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OPINION: Using Abortion to Get Votes Causes Heartbreak for Women in California

October 23, 2022 9:00 amOctober 23, 2022 8:48 am

I have been a political independent my entire life because early on, it was clear to me that both major political parties’ platforms were well-intended but flawed. Part of the problem is the assumptions each party platform makes about the...

Open the Books: Gov. Newsom Solicited State Vendors For Campaign Donations

September 22, 2022 1:36 pmSeptember 24, 2022 8:15 am

“California Governor Gavin Newsom has quietly solicited millions of dollars in campaign donations from state vendors, key people, employees, or their affiliated corporate political action committees,” Open the Books reports. “While progressives decry corporate money in politics, Governor Gavin Newsom...

Open the Books Exposes California Spending & Gov. Newsom’s Donor Base

August 29, 2022 7:43 amAugust 30, 2022 11:37 am

In January 2020, Open the Books sued California Controller Betty Yee in a Sacramento Superior Court after her office rejected their sunshine request for state spending. Yee claimed that she “couldn’t locate” any of the nearly 50 million bills she...

California’s Named Legislative Acts

April 5, 2022 6:30 amApril 5, 2022 6:40 am

Prior to adoption of Joint Rule 10.6, the California Legislature named Acts after the legislator(s) who principally authored those Acts. Joint Rule 10.6. provides: “A bill may not add a short title that names a current or former Member of...

Would MORE Legislators Better Govern California?

December 13, 2021 2:20 amDecember 15, 2021 3:32 pm

Author’s note – I’m sorry you just spilled – or worse – your coffee or whatever all over your screen when you read the headline. I suggest taking a minute to clean up and then take a deep calming breath...

California Assembly and Senate Putting the Squeeze on Unvaccinated Employees

August 18, 2021 12:54 pm

The California State Assembly and Senate leaders have been incrementally ratcheting down on COVID mandates now that the State Capitol building is open. The Globe reported in June: As California Capitol Reopens, Leg Staff Required to Show Proof of Vaccine,...

Unvaccinated Capitol Staffers Sent to One Facility to be COVID Tested Weekly, Together

June 17, 2021 11:26 amJune 17, 2021 3:30 pm

UPDATE below: The California Globe has learned that employees of the California Senate and Assembly who are unvaccinated will be sent weekly on Mondays to Cal Expo, between 7:00am and 9:00am for COVID testing – all at one location, together,...