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City of Sacramento’s Sneaky All-Electrification Plan of Existing Buildings and Homes

December 15, 2023 9:12 amDecember 16, 2023 9:06 am

The City of Sacramento is developing a plan to electrify every building in the city to create an all-electric city – under the guise of its “Climate Action and Adaptation Plan” that details “the City’s efforts to support the State...

I Visited the Southern Border – It’s Worse Than I Imagined

December 15, 2023 2:45 amDecember 15, 2023 2:46 am

As a candidate for Congress in a Southern California, I just went down to the San Diego Sector border with my team to learn about the crisis and how it’s impacting our community firsthand. We spoke with Border Patrol agents....

Driverless Cruise Lays Off Over 900 Employees Following Months Of Turmoil, Incidents

December 15, 2023 2:30 amDecember 15, 2023 2:31 am

Cruise, the San Francisco-based driverless car and robotaxi subsidiary of General Motors, announced on Thursday that they would be laying off over 900 employees, due in large part to the company’s ongoing problems in California. In 2022 and most of...

California Reps help House Pass Extension of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

December 14, 2023 8:32 pmDecember 15, 2023 9:13 am

Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the policy agenda and authorizes funding for the Department of Defense annually, the House also passed an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Instead of reforming FISA, the House authorized...

60% of Homeless Vagrants in San Francisco Refusing Shelter

December 14, 2023 6:59 pmDecember 14, 2023 6:59 pm

According to new data released by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and street outreach teams from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT), 60% of all homeless people who were offered shelter...

Poll Shows Gascon Weak in Los Angeles DA’s Election Race

December 14, 2023 3:35 pmDecember 15, 2023 7:44 am

Is fifty one-and-a-half weeks all the time George Gascon has left in office? A new poll on the state of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s election race shows Gascon remains deeply unpopular and – even if were to finish in...

Senator Wiener Says State Is At ‘Inflection Point’ For Psychedelic Drug Decriminalization

December 14, 2023 11:57 amDecember 14, 2023 4:39 pm

During a recent Psychedelic and Entheogen Academic Council (PEAC) panel, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) said that the state has now reached an “inflection point” in support for decriminalizing psychedelics drugs, despite recent polls showing that the majority of Americans...