Highlight – Page 49 – California Globe

NJ Motor Voter Registration Error: California Says ‘Hold My Beer’

July 22, 2026 7:19 amJuly 22, 2026 2:20 pm

Democrat New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday that a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicle system, from June 2023 to June 2024, improperly registered roughly 6,600 non-citizens to vote. This occurred despite applicants indicating they were not U.S....

Stockton Already Told Us How This Ends

July 22, 2026 6:00 amJuly 22, 2026 6:01 am

Stockton’s 2012 bankruptcy filing gets taught as a morality play about municipal excess. It wasn’t excess. It was a fiduciary breach, and the record proves it. In 2007 the city council voted to sell $125 million in pension obligation bonds...

Personal Income Tax Laws

July 21, 2026 2:00 pmJuly 21, 2026 2:01 pm

California Revenue and Taxation Code Division 2, Part 10 deals with the Personal Income Tax Laws. Chapter 1 contains general provisions and definitions. Section 17001 names this part as the “Personal Income Tax Law.” Section 17002 specifies that the definitions...

Rep Adam Gray Continues Lavish Campaign Spending on Luxury Chauffeurs, Uber Rides, and MLB Tickets

July 21, 2026 12:43 pmJuly 21, 2026 12:46 pm

A new California Globe analysis of recent FEC disclosures shows that Congressman Adam Gray continues to spend campaign funds on luxury items—the same pattern CalWatchDog first documented when Democrats bailed him out in 2014. Gray, who co-chaired Rep. Eric Swalwell’s...

CalPERS Committed $21 Billion to Diversity But Still Can’t Say If It Paid Off

July 21, 2026 12:00 pmJuly 21, 2026 12:01 pm

Federal contractors have until July 24 to certify they don’t run illegal DEI programs, or risk the fate of IBM, which paid $17 million in May to settle the first case brought under the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative....

Don’t like our laws? Ignore them – Don’t like election outcomes? Gut the office

July 21, 2026 10:01 amJuly 21, 2026 10:01 am

I, for one, am still celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday. I recently wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s answer to the question of what kind of government were we going to have, to which he replied, “A republic, if you can keep...

HHS Sec Kennedy Announces Trump Admin is Pausing over $1 billion in Medicaid Payments to California and Minnesota Over Suspected Fraud

July 21, 2026 9:21 amJuly 21, 2026 4:42 pm

UPDATED below: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just announced Tuesday morning that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have deferred more than $1 billion in...