Feature – California Globe

The Broken Compass and the Centennial Catastrophe: A Polling Industry that Keeps Promising Outcomes it Cannot Deliver

August 15, 2026 9:00 amAugust 15, 2026 9:01 am

America just threw itself a 250th birthday party, and the polling that came with it reads like a physician’s chart for a patient in trouble. A PBS NewsHour/Marist survey released for the semiquincentennial found that 37 percent of Americans —...

Gavin’s High Speed Rail Disaster

August 14, 2026 11:40 amAugust 14, 2026 11:40 am

California’s high-speed rail project has no operational trains and no high-speed track laid on the actual alignment, as of August 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom has blown $18 billion on California High Speed Rail and the project is about to run...

NV Democrats’ Abortion Initiative Puts New Massachusetts Late-Term Law to Shame

August 13, 2026 7:14 amAugust 13, 2026 4:22 pm

Nevada’s Question 6, the “Right to Abortion Initiative” returning to voters this November, goes far beyond constitutionalizing the state’s existing 24-week statute. In fact, it allows abortion through all nine months even on healthy moms with healthy babies. According to...

RFK Jr Accuses Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra of Gutting Fraud Oversight, Enabling Billions in Theft

August 12, 2026 3:07 pmAugust 13, 2026 7:16 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a blistering indictment of his predecessor, Xavier Becerra, on Tuesday, accusing the former Biden administration official of systematically dismantling the agency’s program integrity staff and opening the floodgates to massive...

Welcome to ‘Rusty Areias Week’ in the CA Legislature: Highway Naming Passes

August 11, 2026 8:00 amAugust 11, 2026 9:10 pm

Welcome to ‘Rusty Areias Week’ in the California Legislature. Late in the day last Wednesday, August 5, both the Senate and Assembly leadership coincidentally announced two separate hearings for this week to continue groveling to former fat-cat lobbyist/lightweight former Assemblyman...

The Polling Paradox of 2026

August 8, 2026 7:38 amAugust 9, 2026 7:39 am

Eighty-nine days before the midterms, the single most-watched number in American politics cannot agree with itself. CNN’s poll with SSRS puts Democrats ahead by eight points on the generic congressional ballot. Emerson College says eleven. The Washington Post-Ipsos survey says...

Trump Touts Working Families Tax Cuts in Las Vegas, Warns of Democratic Open Borders and Communist Threat

August 5, 2026 5:51 pmAugust 5, 2026 5:51 pm

President Donald Trump arrived at the Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Summerlin on Wednesday to highlight his administration’s Working Families Tax Cuts from the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act, while criticizing Democrats on border security and warning...