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Gov. Newsom Replaces Orange County Water Board Member Over Desalination Plant
On Wednesday, Governor Gavin Newsom removed a director of the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board after months of criticisms and questions over a proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach. Director William von Blasingame had repeatedly challenged the Governor...
California’s War on Holidays, Gatherings, Singing, Chanting, and Shouting
California Governor Gavin Newsom and California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly recommend cancelling Halloween door-to-door trick-0r-treating. The Governor and Dr. Anthony Fauci recommend that Americans should cancel family Thanksgiving gatherings. This reminds me of the actor Alan Rickman...
2020 General Election Preview: 1st Assembly District
Comprising of all or part of 9 different counties, the 1st Assembly district takes up a rough triangle in far north California, going from Lake Tahoe, to the Oregon border north of Redding, east to the California, Oregon, and Nevada...
The Seven Cs of Basic Legislative Drafting
What are the “Seven Cs” and what do they have to do with legislative drafting? During this time of pandemic, I have been researching and reading about legislative drafting and studying some of the materials that are available to the...
CA Assemblymen Kiley and Gallagher Trial on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ‘One-Man Rule’
California Assemblymen Kevin Kiley and James Gallagher have sued to stop California Governor Gavin Newsom’s “one man rule,” as California Globe has reported. They were in Sutter County Superior Court Wednesday largely arguing that Gov. Gavin Newsom has exceeded his...
Sacramento County Superior Court Rules Against AG Becerra Over GOP Ballot Box Order
On Wednesday, Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David Brown sided with the California Republican Party against the order of Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Secretary of State Alex Padilla to give the state information on the party’s ballot box drop...