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Trump Administration, Give Us a Call Next Time on Water Deliveries

February 3, 2025 11:31 amFebruary 3, 2025 11:31 am

It’s safe to say things have changed a good deal in the past few weeks. Things are always changing. The climate, world leaders, our position relative to the size of the universe as it expands – the only unchanging constant...

It’s Time Former ‘Acting’ Labor Secretary Julie Su Faces Heat For California’s Pandemic Fraud

February 3, 2025 2:57 amFebruary 3, 2025 7:34 am

In 2020 during Governor Gavin Newsom’s statewide Covid lockdown, he announced the formation of a “strike team” to solve numerous issues plaguing California’s unemployment agency, the Orwellian-named “Employment Development Department: long wait times for unemployment claims, delayed payments, phone delays,...

Systemic Mismanagement in California’s Insurance Sector

February 3, 2025 2:45 amFebruary 3, 2025 6:48 am

Insurance is the foundation of a robust financial strategy and is vital to securing a prosperous future for California. However, recent events, notably the wildfires in Los Angeles, have exposed severe systemic issues plaguing our state’s insurance industry. These issues...

Civic Openness in Contract Negotiations

February 3, 2025 2:30 amFebruary 3, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Public Contract Code, in Division 2, Part 3, deals with contracting by local agencies. Chapter 4.5 concerns civic openness in negotiations. Section 22175 calls this chapter the “Civic Reporting Openness in Negotiations.” Section 22176 defines the phrases “civic openness...

Federal Judge Safeguards Teachers Right to Say ‘No’ to California’s Gender Secrecy Policy

February 2, 2025 9:53 amFebruary 3, 2025 9:17 am

Separating parents from their kids is a pernicious–really unnatural–proposition. But that is what California state policy requiring schools to keep secret from parents kids’ gender transitions effectuates. Now, that policy has suffered a serious setback with a federal judge’s sweeping...

Expungement and Relief in Civil Actions

February 2, 2025 8:47 amFebruary 2, 2025 8:47 am

Code of Civil Procedure, Part 2, Title 4.5, Chapter 3 concerns expungement and other relief in the recording notice of certain civil actions in California. Section 405.30 provides that, at any time after notice of pendency of action has been...

AG Rob Bonta Issues Statement Denouncing Trump’s Dismantling DEI Programs, Initiatives

February 1, 2025 3:16 pmFebruary 2, 2025 3:16 pm

Attorney General Rob Bonta, along with the Attorneys General of 12 other states, issued a joint statement on Friday, denouncing President Donald Trump’s recent Executive Orders diminishing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and efforts in the federal government. Since...