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California Faces Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Property Seizure Under Senate Bill 1137

April 17, 2025 3:10 amApril 17, 2025 3:11 am

California mineral owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 1137, a law that authorizes the unprecedented and unlawful seizure of property rights for everyday Californians. SB 1137, which took effect on June 27, 2024, bans the...

Drain the Reservoirs, Return California’s Stolen Land

March 23, 2024 2:45 amMarch 22, 2024 3:12 pm

The destruction of dams on the Klamath River provides an encouraging precedent for progressives throughout California. As was breathlessly reported in the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere, indigenous tribes are now able to recover their sacred land and revive their ancestral villages and way...

How Do You Solve a Problem Like CEQA? Part Three

June 21, 2023 3:00 amJune 21, 2023 3:01 am

This is the third and final installment in a series of reports on the impact of the California Environmental Quality Act on development in California and ways to potentially improve the law. It is written in response to hearings conducted...

The Pat Brown Republicans

March 11, 2023 2:29 amMarch 11, 2023 8:18 am

California old timers can remember the state’s first Governor Brown, Jerry Brown’s father Pat Brown, who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. It would be difficult to imagine anything the elder Brown did that would be...

Legislative Records Program at California Secretary of State

October 9, 2022 3:34 pmOctober 9, 2022 3:40 pm

The California Secretary of State (SOS), among numerous other programs that are administered by her office, has a legislative records program According to the SOS, “the Legislative Records Program (LegPro) works closely with the State Legislature to identify and preserve...

Is There a Doctor in The House?

January 30, 2022 2:04 amJanuary 31, 2022 10:33 am

Consider that the better question may be, “Is there a decent doctor in the house?” The Medical Board of California has recently asked the State Legislature to amp up the ability to discipline doctors who have run afoul of the...