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Frequently Asked Questions about the Role of Legislative Counsel in Initiatives

March 19, 2024 2:45 amMarch 19, 2024 2:46 am

Does the Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) draft initiatives? Yes, many do not realize that the highly trained attorneys in the California Office of Legislative Counsel may draft an initiative for the statewide ballot in certain circumstances. What is the...

Los Angeles City Council Considers Creating Department Of Homelessness

March 19, 2024 2:30 amMarch 19, 2024 2:31 am

At a Los Angeles City Council meeting on Monday, City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez pushed for the creation of a Department of Homelessness to help streamline the city’s current patchwork of homeless programs and groups under the direction of one department....

California’s $20 Minimum Wage Fast Food Bill Gets Even Messier

March 18, 2024 6:39 pmMarch 18, 2024 6:57 pm

The fast food bill, California’s new $20 minimum wage law has a “cleanup” bill, Assembly Bill 610, which is supposed to… well… clean up the mess made by Assembly Bill 1228. At least that is what we are supposed to...

Klamath River Dams – KRRC’s Sediment Plan – A Ticking Time Bomb?

March 18, 2024 3:44 pmMarch 18, 2024 3:44 pm

The Klamath River Renewal Corporation (‘KRRC’) has been misinforming everyone. And when anything goes terribly wrong, they claim it’s “as planned.” The 15-million cubic yards of remaining toxic lake bottom sediments pose a very real and significant threat to the...

The New Fed Contractor Rule is Great! …But Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says the LA Times

March 18, 2024 2:50 pmMarch 18, 2024 2:50 pm

Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...

Shady Non-Profits Reap Cash From Riverside County and the CDC

March 18, 2024 7:25 amMarch 18, 2024 7:25 am

At the March 12, 2024, meeting of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors item 24097 was up for a vote, but ultimately pulled from the agenda due to the questionable status of a non-profit organization that the county was to...

Reedley Chinese Communist Party-Linked Lab: One Year Later

March 18, 2024 2:44 amMarch 18, 2024 10:23 am

It was exactly a year ago Saturday when officials with the City of Reedley executed a search warrant on what turned out to be a secret, Chinese Communist Party-linked laboratory in the middle of downtown. In the past year, the...