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San Francisco and The Grants Pass Ruling: Where The City And Mayoral Candidates Stand

July 1, 2024 1:43 pmJuly 2, 2024 10:29 am

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. According to the ruling, local laws limiting encampments on public land does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment, allowing for local civil and criminal...

Thanks Gavin: Another California Gas Tax Increases TODAY

July 1, 2024 9:17 amJuly 1, 2024 9:18 am

We already know that California’s gas prices and gas taxes are the highest in the nation. Buckle up – they are going higher. California’s gas prices are going up again effective today, July 1, 2024. According to the California Energy...

Newsom: Conservatives Are Just Like Hitler

July 1, 2024 8:00 amJuly 1, 2024 8:01 am

Everyone knows the ancient joke about the two exhausted kids walking through a sun-blasted and waterless land. Sunburned and still miles from their destination, they come upon an immense pile of animal manure blocking their path. The boys stop for...

It’s In the Air We Breathe: CARB and Racial Equity

July 1, 2024 6:47 amJuly 1, 2024 6:47 am

Rabbit hole. Wormhole. Rat hole. When trying to digest various government racial equity plans, these are three frustrating words that come up rather too often. Click on one government thing and it takes you to another and to another and...

Language Needed for a Prop. 98 Suspension Bill

July 1, 2024 6:29 amJuly 1, 2024 6:29 am

On occasion, the California Legislature and Governor decide to suspend the voter-approved minimum school funding guarantee, Prop. 98, when the state’s finances require it. Under Prop. 98, the state Constitution requires the state to apply a minimum amount of funding...

Legislature to Designate November Ballot Measures

June 30, 2024 9:27 pmJune 30, 2024 9:28 pm

At almost 7pm on Sunday, June 30, 2024, Assembly Bill 440 was amended to make a number of changes. Initially, Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin and Senator Catherine Blakespear became joint authors of the measure. In addition, AB 440 would do the...

The Law Allowing Measures to Be Withdrawn from the Ballot

June 30, 2024 10:42 amJune 30, 2024 10:42 am

In the 2014 California Legislative Session, then-State Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) authored Senate Bill 1253, which became Chapter 697 when the Governor signed the bill on September 27. SB 1253 amended California Elections Code Sections 9, 101, 9002, 9004, 9005,...