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Restaurants File for Referendum to Stop California’s New Fast Food Worker Law

September 8, 2022 2:16 amSeptember 9, 2022 6:37 am

A coalition of restaurant owners began the first steps toward blocking the recently signed AB 257 law on Wednesday, California’s new fast food worker law, by filing a referendum request with the California Attorney General. The AB 257 law, authored...

Sacramento Drug-Addicted Transients Taking Over Neighborhoods While City Fiddles

September 6, 2022 2:49 pmSeptember 7, 2022 4:37 pm

UPDATED BELOW: The City of Sacramento has a big problem, and it isn’t the “existential threat of climate change.” Narcotics, burglary, aggravated assault, battery, vandalism, and weapon-related crimes are now commonplace in residential neighborhoods where new moms push strollers on...

Gov. Newsom Signs Legislation to Unionize CA’s 556,000 Fast Food Workers

September 5, 2022 10:01 amSeptember 6, 2022 8:05 am

Governor Gavin Newsom and the state’s legislative Democrats just gave a whopper of a gift to the SEIU labor union – Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed Assembly Bill 257 by Assemblyman Chris Holden (D-Los Angeles), to unionize the state’s 556,000 fast-food...

California Backlash over Order Not to Charge Electric Vehicles During Heatwave

September 2, 2022 2:29 amSeptember 5, 2022 3:17 pm

The announcement by the California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) on Wednesday asking California residents not to charge their electric vehicles during peak hours to help conserve electricity continued to face backlash on Thursday, due to the state approving a...

Sen. Wiener Pulls Bill to allow 12-Year Olds Get Vaccine Without Parental Consent

August 31, 2022 8:47 amSeptember 1, 2022 3:20 pm

San Francisco Senator Scott Wiener just announced he is pulling SB 866, his bill to allow 12-year old children to take vaccines without parental consent. “We have made the difficult decision not to call up SB 866 for a vote...

CA Legislature Passes Bill to Unionize Fast Food Workers

August 30, 2022 7:04 amAugust 31, 2022 8:28 am

California is gearing up to become the first state in the country to unionize fast food employees by creating a new Fast Food Council within the Department of Industrial Relations to set minimum health, safety and employment standards across the...

Open the Books Exposes California Spending & Gov. Newsom’s Donor Base

August 29, 2022 7:43 amAugust 30, 2022 11:37 am

In January 2020, Open the Books sued California Controller Betty Yee in a Sacramento Superior Court after her office rejected their sunshine request for state spending. Yee claimed that she “couldn’t locate” any of the nearly 50 million bills she...