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Is It Racist: A Look at State Agency Anti-Racism Plans

June 7, 2024 2:45 amJune 7, 2024 2:46 am

Thanks to the good people at the State Water Resources Control Board, we all know now that California’s water is not racist, or at least as racist as it supposedly used to be. That’s all well and good –...

Frequently Asked Questions about the Order of Precedence

June 7, 2024 2:30 amJune 7, 2024 2:31 am

What happens when there is a vacancy in this state’s governorship? In California’s Constitution, Article V, Section 10, the Lieutenant Governor becomes Governor when a vacancy occurs in the office of the Governor. When is there an Acting Governor in...

Trade Group Finds 10,000 Fast Food Jobs Lost Since New $20 Minimum Wage Law

June 6, 2024 4:40 pmJune 6, 2024 4:42 pm

According to new findings by the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA), the state of California has lost just under 10,000 fast food jobs since AB 1228, the new $20 minimum wage for fast food employees was first signed into law...

Mission: Political – California Endowment Goes All In on ESG

June 6, 2024 1:53 pmJune 6, 2024 1:53 pm

One of the state’s most powerful, most woke foundations is getting even woker, and even more powerful…maybe. The California Endowment, which now has about $4 billion dollars in assets, was created in 1996 when the then-non-profit Blue Cross health insurer...

L.A. County Board Of Supervisors Vote on Stricter Rent Caps in County Unincorporated Areas

June 6, 2024 1:34 pmJune 6, 2024 1:35 pm

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted this week to put into effect even stricter rent caps in place in unincorporated parts of the county, making them one step closer to setting rent increases to only 3% each year....

The Hippocratic Oath: Privacy

June 6, 2024 12:28 pm

The sixth and final covenant of the Hippocratic Oath is called Privacy. My oath states: That whatsoever I shall see or hear in regard to the life of my patients I will keep inviolably in confidence even beyond the patient’s death....

Will the California Budget Include Temporary Tax Increases?

June 6, 2024 6:44 amJune 6, 2024 6:44 am

While the Governor and Legislature adopted similar proposals just four years ago at the outset of the pandemic, there are proposed significant, temporary tax increases on California’s business community in the budget proposals currently under consideration. The net operating loss...