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Last Unapproved Segment Of California’s High-Speed Rail up for Environmental Approval In June

May 24, 2024 1:54 pmMay 24, 2024 1:54 pm

The California High-Speed Rail Authority announced Friday that the last segment of the Los Angeles to San Francisco phase one of the rail system that hasn’t received environmental clearance is up for a final environmental impact decision next month. Originally...

CalTrans Launches Road Tax Pilot Program

May 24, 2024 9:30 amMay 24, 2024 9:31 am

You’ll never drive alone again. If you were worried that Sacramento would turn off or even slow down its perpetual stupid machine, fear not: the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax pilot program has been launched! CalTrans is right now looking...

Bill To End Legacy and Donation-Based Admissions To California Colleges Passes Assembly

May 24, 2024 9:00 amMay 24, 2024 9:01 am

A bill that would ban both legacy and donor preferred admissions at public and private colleges in California passed in the Assembly earlier this week, moving the bill onto committees in the Senate. Assembly Bill 1780, authored by Assemblyman Phil...

What Blockheads: UCLA Leader, Other College Leaders Flail in Congress

May 24, 2024 7:43 amMay 24, 2024 7:43 am

In politics, as in life, sometimes you don’t have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the other guy. Luckily for UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, the other guy – Northwestern University President Michael Schill...

More Money, More Problems

May 24, 2024 6:30 amMay 24, 2024 6:31 am

California is often praised by its leadership as the 5th biggest economy in the world in the face of critics by its progressive government. To this I say, California has grown in spite of its government policies, not because of...

California Has Sacrificed its Energy Stability on the Altar of Green Energy ideology

May 24, 2024 2:55 amMay 24, 2024 2:56 am

State leaders’ energy mandates mean higher electricity prices for Californians. If you heard angry shouts of protest last month, it was likely your neighbors opening their electricity bills. These echoes of protest reverberated even more loudly in March when PG&E...

Ringside: The Crossroads of Kern County

May 24, 2024 2:45 amMay 24, 2024 2:46 am

With chronic uncertainty over water allocations for farm irrigation, and relentless and escalating regulatory assaults on its oil industry, the biggest economic sectors of Kern County are threatened. The irony is thick. Food and fuel are the prerequisites for civilization...