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Pretext as Policymaking

June 25, 2025 12:00 pmJune 25, 2025 12:04 pm

In California politics, solving real problems often takes a backseat to appearances. Lawmakers declare a crisis on things like housing, climate, public safety, then rush to “do something,” regardless of whether their action actually helps. What they offer isn’t leadership;...

The Two Primary Causes of California’s July 1st Gas Tax Increase

June 25, 2025 8:59 amJune 26, 2025 12:08 pm

California gasoline already costs approximately $1.50 above the national average, and we are getting another gas tax hike next week. The gas tax increase coming July 1st that CalTax explained in our previous article is the gasoline excise tax, as...

A Quick Look at the Middle Part of the California Legislative Session

June 25, 2025 6:15 amJune 25, 2025 6:16 am

What generally happens in the middle part of the California Legislative Session? Immediately after the house of origin deadline, the budget deliberations are in full swing and bills must quickly be considered in the second house. The first half of...

Greenberg: San Francisco Misdiagnosed Blame for Rise in Antisemitism

June 25, 2025 2:45 amJune 25, 2025 2:46 am

San Francisco’s elected officials, long-steeped in infamous progressive ideology, have repeatedly and wrongfully attributed the periodic rise in antisemitic incidents to right-wing extremism, shunning the likely culprit: left-wing activism and influence, particularly from groups like the Arab Resource and Organizing...

Three Items of Interest From the 2025 Budget Bill Junior

June 24, 2025 8:44 pmJune 24, 2025 8:46 pm

In reviewing some of the provisions of the 2025 Budget Bill Junior, I came across these three items of particular interest: First, here are the listed trailer bills in the Budget Bill Junior, so these bills are related to the...

AB 1460: California’s Plan to Enrich Hospitals at Patients’ Expense

June 24, 2025 4:19 pmJune 24, 2025 4:19 pm

California lawmakers are about to hand hospitals and pharmacies a massive windfall and stick patients with the bill. Assembly Bill 1460 by Assemblyman Chris Rogers (D-Santa Rosa), which passed out of the State Assembly in May, would expand the 340B...

Is Senator Eloise Gomez Reyes Serving as an Elected State Senator or Not?

June 24, 2025 3:04 pmJune 24, 2025 3:07 pm

California State lawmakers and bureaucrats are appearing more and more like members of the Stalinist-era political elite in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed a gratuitous level of luxury, power and privilege. Our lawmakers and appointed bureaucrats certainly are, as they snub...