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AB 820 to Create an Interest Exclusion for Small Biz Loans

March 19, 2021 7:01 amMarch 19, 2021 7:05 am

On March 18, Assemblyman Ken Cooley (D-Sacramento) amended his Assembly Bill 820 to create an interest exclusion for small business loans. The bill would add Sections 24313.5 and 25128.1 to the Revenue and Taxation Code. As a tax levy measure,...

CA Universal Basic Income Program to be funded by a Personal Income Tax increase

March 19, 2021 6:55 amMarch 19, 2021 7:00 am

On March 18, Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) amended his Assembly Bill 65 to create a Universal Basic Income (UBI) Program to be funded by a Personal Income Tax (PIT) increase. The bill would add Section 17044 and Chapter 2.5 (commencing...

CDCR Sued By Family Of Prisoner Who Died From COVID-19

March 19, 2021 2:44 amMarch 18, 2021 8:45 pm

The family of a prisoner who died of COVD-19 while serving time in San Quentin State Prison filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). According to the lawsuit, Danny Ruiz, a...

Voters Remember CA Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Troubles Began Before COVID Lockdown, Part IV

March 18, 2021 8:14 pmMarch 19, 2021 8:43 pm

In Part l of Voters Know CA Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Troubles Began Before Pandemic, we highlighted many of Newsom’s disastrous policies his first year in the governor’s office 2019, including: announcing state-funded full scope Medi-Cal healthcare to 138,000 illegal immigrants, reinstating...

AG Becerra Intervenes In San Diego County Housing Development Case Over Wildfire Concerns

March 18, 2021 7:43 pm

On Wednesday, outgoing California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed motions in the lawsuits over San Diego County’s approval over the 36 square mile Otay Ranch development site. The Otay Ranch development, which would add over 3,000 single family residential units,...

Gov. Newsom to Select New California AG Following Becerra’s Confirmation as HHS Secretary

March 18, 2021 3:35 pm

The U.S. Senate confirmed California Attorney General Xavier Becerra Thursday as President Joe Biden’s health secretary, to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in a narrow 50-49 vote. Among one of the last of President Biden’s nominees to...

Longtime Los Angeles Teacher Sues LA Teachers Union Over Wrongly Collected Dues

March 18, 2021 10:40 amMarch 18, 2021 10:58 am

When the United States Supreme Court affirmed in the summer of 2018 that public-sector employees can’t be forced, as a condition of employment, to fund a labor union, United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and other unions hatched a plan...