The City of Los Angeles has embarked upon an aggressive and novel plan: provide housing for all of the city’s homeless. The inherent problem with the plan is obvious: the more you provide, the more you incentivize homeless people to...
Last Friday the Globe reported that Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas just removed Assemblyman Bill Essayli, a former federal prosecutor, from the Assembly Judiciary Committee Thursday following a vote in the Assembly to end sanctuary state protections for pedophiles. The Globe...
A bill aimed at making it easier to arrest shoplifters has continued to grow in support in the Senate following passage in the Assembly late last month. Assembly Bill 1990, authored by Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles), would let law...
For a week now most news outlets have issued dire warnings that California will be under an “extreme” heat wave this coming week. Fox News reported breathlessly Sunday evening that temperatures in California will reach as high as 120 degrees...
Which Legislative Session is designated? At the top of each resolution, the following language appears: “California Legislature – 2019-2020 Regular Session.” The only two items that change would be the 2-year Legislative Session, and if there is an Extraordinary Session...
What is a referendum? The referendum is set forth in the California Constitution, in Article II, Section 9, which provides: “The referendum is the power of the electors to approve or reject statutes or parts of statutes except urgency statutes,...
The fifth and next to the final covenant of the Hippocratic Oath discussed here is to abjure harm. The oath I swore states: That I will abjure (reject) any medicine or operation or counsel which is injurious or deleterious to...