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Sacramento’s Idea of a Transition

March 19, 2026 1:12 pmMarch 19, 2026 1:16 pm

In 1991, California had more than forty refineries. By the end of 2026, it will have fewer than eleven. Of those, only five are large enough to matter. Phillips 66 shuttered its 147,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles refinery in December. Valero’s Benicia...

Solano County Voting Officials Announce California Forever Project Will Be On November Ballot

June 13, 2024 2:45 amJune 13, 2024 5:22 pm

Solano County elections officials announced on Tuesday that the venture capitalist-backed California Forever development plan, which would create a green city for up to 400,000 people in the majority rural county, had received enough validated signatures by voters to place...

The Big Green of Money Against the Farmers and Ranchers of Solano

May 31, 2024 2:55 amMay 31, 2024 2:56 am

“Money,” said Jesse Unruh famously, “is the mother’s milk of politics,” and if you doubt the truth of this axiom just take a look at the biggest, most contentious land use fight now occurring in California. This agriculture versus development...