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First Partner to Tackle Loneliness in Newly Created ‘Social Health Council,’ after the WHO Commission on Social Connection

September 3, 2026 6:00 amSeptember 3, 2026 6:36 am

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom last week announced the launch of the “first-ever California Social Health Council to beat loneliness.” She said she will “bring together leaders from across the state to advance social connection and address loneliness as a...

Leasing State Water Bottoms

September 3, 2026 2:36 amSeptember 3, 2026 2:37 am

Fish and Game Code Division 12, Chapter 5 deals with the leasing of state water bottoms. Section 15400 authorizes the commission to lease state water bottoms or the water column to any person for aquaculture, including, but not limited to,...

Ringside: Where Does California Get its Energy?

September 2, 2026 4:50 pmSeptember 3, 2026 7:40 am

Finding quality, consolidated information on energy use in California is surprisingly difficult. The California Department of Energy provides detailed information on electricity production, and a variety of reports on, for example, refinery inputs and production. But there is no report available from...

Rolling Brownouts: Fire Protection in Sutter County Area-F is a 7-Year Documented Emergency

September 2, 2026 4:00 pmSeptember 2, 2026 5:20 pm

Are we being played? The funding problems in Sutter County Service Area-F are no secret. Sutter Fire is County Service Area-F. The 2018–19 Grand Jury found County Service Area-F “dangerously understaffed and alarmingly underfunded.” The 2020–21 Grand Jury repeated that...

Aaron Ford’s ‘Lombardo Economy Is Worse’ Line Collides With the Jobs Numbers

September 2, 2026 3:58 pmSeptember 2, 2026 3:58 pm

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee for governor, left the state on a workday to sit in the Los Angeles studio of Pod Save America and tell a national progressive audience that Gov. Joe Lombardo has made Nevada’s...

Oak Woodlands Conservation Act

September 2, 2026 3:15 pmSeptember 2, 2026 3:15 pm

Division 2, Chapter 4, Article 3.5 deals with the Oak Woodlands Conservation Act under the Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947. Section 1360 names this article as the Oak Woodlands Conservation Act. Section 1361 defines the terms “board,” “conservation easement,” “fund,”...

Gov. Newsom Failed to Rewrite California’s Wildfire Liability System

September 2, 2026 2:16 pm

During the final days of California’s 2026 legislative session, which just concluded Monday at midnight, Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed a last-minute overhaul of the state’s wildfire liability rules. Well, sort of. There wasn’t much effort nothing was resolved. Why? Negotiations...