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Local Sacramento Politicians Propose 40-Year Climate Change Sales Tax

December 2, 2019 1:51 pm

‘Only talking about roads is a bygone era and we have to evolve beyond that.’ A group of city and county politicians is working on a November 2020 ballot measure to increase the local sales tax another half cent,...

Is California a ‘Permanently Blue’ State?

December 2, 2019 10:06 amDecember 1, 2019 10:00 am

“The very rapid decline of California’s Republican Party,” writes Dan Walters of CALmatters, “from near-dominance in the 1980s and early 1990s to its current irrelevance has been one of the state’s most dramatic political events.” Walters has been writing on...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Heads to Spain For UN Climate Conference

December 2, 2019 6:30 amDecember 2, 2019 11:34 am

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is traveling to Madrid, Spain this week, along with a group of Democrat lawmakers, to support the UN climate change agenda. The United Nations is holding the UN COP25 environmental...

Single Subject Rule and the Ballot Initiative

December 2, 2019 6:05 amDecember 1, 2019 11:49 am

California Constitution Article II, Section 8(d) provides “An initiative measure embracing more than one subject may not be submitted to the electors or have any effect.” You may recall that a similar rule exists for bills considered by the California...

Kamala Harris Calls for ‘Mental Health Justice’

December 1, 2019 10:03 amDecember 2, 2019 2:58 pm

“Our country is in a mental health crisis,” proclaims California Sen. Kamala Harris, and “over 45 million adults – nearly 20 percent of all U.S. adults – experience mental illness in 2017.” In 25 states, Harris explains, the suicide rate...

While Black Friday Broke Records, Avoid Scam Artists on Cyber Monday

December 1, 2019 8:50 amDecember 1, 2019 8:52 am

The post-Thanksgiving-Day shopping craze known as Black Friday has been an American tradition since the 1950s. By 5 p.m. Thursday, $2.1 billion was spent on shopping, which was a 20% gain from a year ago, according to Adobe’s ADBE, online...

Kamala Harris’ Lackluster Presidential Campaign is Deteriorating

November 30, 2019 10:30 amDecember 3, 2019 11:19 am

The New York Times is the latest to drop a brutal story on the downward trajectory of Sen. Kamala Harris’s lackluster presidential campaign. attempted to inject some new life into it with a personnel change. The story quotes from the...