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Whoa! The SMUD CEO’s Salary is Over $900,000 Annually

January 6, 2026 3:25 amJanuary 6, 2026 3:26 am

Sacramento Municipal Utility District CEO and General Manager Paul Lau is paid $936,617 in total wages, and $45,374 in retirement and health benefits, totaling $981,991 annually. Lau is paid nearly $1 million annually to manage 2,400 employees, and revenue of...

California’s Open-Carry Gun Ban Struck Down by Ninth Circuit

January 3, 2026 5:14 pmJanuary 3, 2026 5:14 pm

California lawmakers and governor Newsom were once again smacked down, this time by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the state’s open-carry ban violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.” This isn’t the first...

Sable Pipeline Gets Go-Ahead to Restart California Pipeline

January 2, 2026 7:36 amJanuary 2, 2026 7:46 am

The Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration just gave Sable Offshore Corp. a Christmas present: Sable can begin pumping oil from its three platforms off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., after a federal appeals court allowed the restart...

California’s Stupid, Ridiculous, Abusive, Nanny State, and Absurd New Laws for 2026

December 30, 2025 9:31 amDecember 30, 2025 10:22 am

California residents will be impacted by more than 900 new laws effective January 1, 2026. Because we need 900 new laws in the leading regulatory hell state in the nation. Minimum Wage Because the cost of living in California is...

Sen. Rand Paul’s Annual ‘Festivus’ Report: $1,639,135,969,608 of Government Waste

December 27, 2025 7:58 amDecember 27, 2025 8:01 am

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul just released his annual “Festivus Report” of wasteful government spending. The 2025 listing does not disappoint – until you remember that all of us are paying for this abuse of taxpayers’ funds by electing the congressional...

Are Parental Rights Making a Comeback — Not if California Leadership Can Stop It

December 26, 2025 3:00 pmDecember 26, 2025 3:00 pm

Judge Benitez’s order restoring parental rights, free speech, and religious conscience is a long-overdue return to sanity — and California’s Democratic leadership is already trying to stop it. On December 22, 2025, a federal judge in California did something that...

Trump’s Merry Christmas Gas Prices

December 24, 2025 9:06 amDecember 24, 2025 9:07 am

AAA is reporting on the lowest prices we’ve seen in quite a long time: This holiday season is delivering cheaper gas prices as travelers hit the road in record numbers. The national average dropped more than 4 cents since last week to $2.89. This...