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Homeless Population Grows While CA Governor Pushes Single Payer Health Care

July 9, 2019 5:42 amJuly 9, 2019 4:23 pm

California’s largest cities are reporting growing numbers of homeless, drug addicted and mentally-ill transients living on the streets, while Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing his plan for single-payer “health care for all.” And, with approval from the governor, the California...

State Housing Finance Agency Failed to Prevent Current Housing Crisis

July 8, 2019 11:07 amJuly 9, 2019 10:02 am

“We create and finance progressive housing solutions so more Californians have a place to call home.” ~CalHFC “Worsening California Housing Crisis Stymies State Lawmakers,” proclaimed a CBS San Francisco headline last month. In similar style, Gov. Gavin Newsom is on...

Selected Highlights from California’s Constitution

July 8, 2019 6:03 amJuly 7, 2019 8:07 am

The California Constitution, one of the longest of the fifty states, has 32 articles (even though the last one is numbered 35), and three articles contain subparts (Articles 10, 13 and 19). There are approximately 365 sections contained in those...

California Assembly Committee Hearing on ‘Attack’ on Women’s ‘Reproductive Health’

July 8, 2019 2:07 amJuly 9, 2019 11:31 am

“With Trump in the White House and Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, politicians are emboldened to regulate women’s bodies.” The California Assembly Select Committee on Women’s Reproductive Health, a newly formed committee, held an investigative hearing in recent weeks...

CA Gov. Newsom Says Latest Earthquakes Are a ‘Wake-up Call’

July 7, 2019 8:58 amJuly 9, 2019 11:35 am

Following two sizable earthquakes over the Fourth of July weekend in parts of Southern California, California Governor Gavin Newsom said “It is a wake-up call for the rest of the state and other parts of the nation, frankly.” Newsom said...

Governor Newsom Takes a Hike

July 2, 2019 2:33 amJuly 2, 2019 8:06 am

“California is struggling to give raises to state workers who were supposed to get them last year even as a new contract year begins,” reports Wes Venteicher of the Sacramento Bee. The delay involves 1,000 members of Professional Engineers in...

California Senate Passes ‘Housing for Homeless,’ Bill With Penalty Component

July 2, 2019 2:08 amJuly 3, 2019 1:35 pm

The Legislature can do an immediate legislative fix The Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review authored AB 101, which provides for statutory changes needed to enact the housing and homelessness-related provisions of the Budget Act of 2019. In short,...