Despite that 93 percent of Californians have health insurance, the California Legislature voted Monday to tax California citizens who do not buy health insurance. This penalty revenue will be used to fund health insurance subsidies to encourage more people to purchase...
On June 1st, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District began charging Sacramento electricity users and ratepayers a new rate system that charges residential users higher rates between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m… much higher rates, just in time to get home...
“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt The Fourth of July is right around the corner, and is a holiday that many Americans look forward to. Camping trips, barbecues, fireworks displays...
The California Research Bureau, which is a part of the California State Library, is a hidden gem on the fifth floor of the State Capitol Annex. It has been around for over a quarter of a century and it provides...
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding a line of the Los Angeles subway system directly beneath the historic Beverly Hills High School, through ground littered with more than 80 abandoned oil wells and saturated with methane gas and...
Unable to accept the killing of his controversial housing/zoning bill SB 50, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has found the backdoor answer to reviving it: Wiener has replaced the language in two other bills with most of his SB 50...
California’s Commission on State Mandates derives its power from Article XIII B, Section 6 of the California Constitution, Article 13B deals with a government spending limitation and contains 15 sections. This article to the state constitution was added by Proposition...