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New Suburbanism – A Smart Alternative to ‘Smart Growth’

June 5, 2019 2:15 amJune 13, 2019 6:38 am

Solutions to California’s housing shortage invariably focus on increasing the density of preexisting cities and suburbs. Legislative solutions include SB 375, passed in 2008, which “incentivizes” cities and counties to approve high density land developments, and the failed (this time) SB 50,...

High Speed Rail’s Top Consultant Suspended After Assemblyman Requests Ethics Investigation

June 5, 2019 2:05 amJune 6, 2019 5:09 am

Assemblyman Jim Patterson says it took almost three years to get approval for an audit of the California High Speed Rail Authority… and what an audit it was. “The ruling Party really pushed it off,” said Patterson, a Republican from...

Sacramento Authorizes Taxpayer Dollars for Legal Fees of Illegal Immigrants, Including Criminals

June 4, 2019 4:12 pmJune 4, 2019 5:44 pm

Sacramento City Council members Angelique Ashby and Jeff Harris, critics of mayor Darrell Steinberg, charge that the mayor is taking retribution against them by excluding their districts from a $16 million spending plan. Other recent budgetary moves by the Sacramento...

California Top 500 Debtor List Is Out

June 4, 2019 2:25 pmJune 5, 2019 6:05 am

June has arrived, the season of graduation, barbecues, Father’s Day and that other quintessential California ritual – the public shaming of the state’s Top 500 Delinquent Taxpayers. Revenue & Taxation Code Section 19195 requires California to post this list twice a...

Bill to End ‘Hair Discrimination’ In the Workplace Moves Ahead

June 4, 2019 11:23 amJune 13, 2019 6:39 am

While existing state and federal laws prohibit racial discrimination in schools and workplaces, one area has not legally evolved — hairstyles, or rather “natural hairstyles” traditionally worn by African American men and women. Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) authored SB...

Federal Privacy Legislation Needed Before a Patchwork of State Privacy Laws Inundate Businesses

June 4, 2019 2:15 amJune 3, 2019 5:06 pm

The issue of consumer privacy, or the lack thereof, is one of the hot-button issues of the day. Hardly a month goes by without mainstream media outlets reporting on the latest privacy related story. From the collection of consumer data...

Assembly Kills 50 Percent of Republican Assemblyman Steven Choi’s Bills Under New Rule

June 4, 2019 2:15 amJune 10, 2019 12:25 pm

Assemblyman Steven Choi (R-Irvine) wants to know why fifty percent of his bills have been killed prior to ever receiving a public committee hearing. “Some have never been agendized,” Choi said in an interview. “The committee chair killed them, or...