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A Startling Report Just Revealed Millions of Driver’s Licenses Were ‘For Sale’ on the Dark Web

September 3, 2026 11:45 amSeptember 3, 2026 11:45 am

It’s scary how easily certain information about you and your family can be found on the “dark web.” What’s worse is how quickly that information can potentially be used against you—for illicit charges, spam emails, identity theft, and who knows...

First Partner to Tackle Loneliness in Newly Created ‘Social Health Council,’ after the WHO Commission on Social Connection

September 3, 2026 6:00 amSeptember 3, 2026 6:36 am

First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom last week announced the launch of the “first-ever California Social Health Council to beat loneliness.” She said she will “bring together leaders from across the state to advance social connection and address loneliness as a...

Ringside: Where Does California Get its Energy?

September 2, 2026 4:50 pmSeptember 3, 2026 7:40 am

Finding quality, consolidated information on energy use in California is surprisingly difficult. The California Department of Energy provides detailed information on electricity production, and a variety of reports on, for example, refinery inputs and production. But there is no report available from...

Rolling Brownouts: Fire Protection in Sutter County Area-F is a 7-Year Documented Emergency

September 2, 2026 4:00 pmSeptember 2, 2026 5:20 pm

Are we being played? The funding problems in Sutter County Service Area-F are no secret. Sutter Fire is County Service Area-F. The 2018–19 Grand Jury found County Service Area-F “dangerously understaffed and alarmingly underfunded.” The 2020–21 Grand Jury repeated that...

Aaron Ford’s ‘Lombardo Economy Is Worse’ Line Collides With the Jobs Numbers

September 2, 2026 3:58 pmSeptember 2, 2026 3:58 pm

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, the Democratic nominee for governor, left the state on a workday to sit in the Los Angeles studio of Pod Save America and tell a national progressive audience that Gov. Joe Lombardo has made Nevada’s...

Gov. Newsom Failed to Rewrite California’s Wildfire Liability System

September 2, 2026 2:16 pm

During the final days of California’s 2026 legislative session, which just concluded Monday at midnight, Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed a last-minute overhaul of the state’s wildfire liability rules. Well, sort of. There wasn’t much effort nothing was resolved. Why? Negotiations...

Arizona House Speaker Demands Answers— Says AG Kris Mayes Omitted Alleged Bribery Offer In Hobbs Pay-to-Play Investigation

September 2, 2026 1:04 pmSeptember 2, 2026 1:04 pm

Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-LD29) is challenging Attorney General Kris Mayes’ decision to decline prosecution in the Hobbs-Sunshine pay-to-play investigation, accusing her office of omitting an alleged 2022 offer by Sunshine Residential Homes CEO Simon Kottoor to influence a...