Highlight – Page 18 – California Globe

Hoping for an Energy-Intensive Future

August 13, 2026 11:00 amAugust 13, 2026 11:01 am

For campaigners of the net zero agenda, “climate action” must come first, even if it means throttling the energy lifelines for billions of the poor. The data say something very different. A sweeping analysis by Kevin Dayaratna and Kat Miller,...

California’s Unclaimed Property Regime Turns Private Assets into a State Revenue Stream

August 13, 2026 10:00 amAugust 13, 2026 10:02 am

California State Controller Malia Cohen oversees more than $15 billion in unclaimed property. The program is described as a consumer-protection effort whose purpose is to safeguard private assets until they can be returned to their owners. California law imposes an...

Ghouls in Pink Turned the Golden State into the Abortion State

August 13, 2026 7:30 amAugust 13, 2026 12:39 pm

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy just signed a new law allowing abortions at any time. Healy, a Democrat, signed the law Monday removing the state’s 24-week abortion limit, allowing abortions at any point in pregnancy. Most of the mainstream media reported that...

Is Covering California’s Aqueducts and Canals with Solar Panels Economical?

August 13, 2026 6:30 amAugust 13, 2026 8:15 am

Earlier this week, a respected YouTube channel covering the future of technology and energy released a video exploring the viability of solar panels covering California’s canals and aqueducts. The videos are hosted by Ricky Roy, a California-based mechanical engineer whose channel is...

Wisconsin and Michigan Just Ran the Experiment on Public Polling — and the Instrument Failed Exactly the way it was Built to Fail

August 12, 2026 6:00 pmAugust 12, 2026 6:10 pm

Six days ago, in The Polling Paradox of 2026, I argued that the most-polled midterm in American history had produced the least trustworthy numbers in modern memory, and that public polling had stopped measuring the electorate and started measuring the polling...

Rigged System: Out-of-State Billionaires Spent Millions Lobbying the Legislature to Lock Out Local Craft Distillers

August 12, 2026 3:00 pmAugust 12, 2026 3:02 pm

Small craft distillers in California are still sounding the alarm on the government-protected distribution monopoly owned by out-of-state billionaires who are locking small producers out of the market, Aaron Bergh, a 10 year veteran of the alcohol industry and owner...

HUD Secretary Scott Turner Puts California’s Homeless Industrial Complex on Notice

August 12, 2026 11:16 amAugust 12, 2026 12:11 pm

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner delivered a blunt message this week: the days of federal taxpayers bankrolling California’s failed and unaccountable homelessness bureaucracy are over. In a video posted to X late Tuesday, Turner declared, “Today, HUD...