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Recall Efforts Grow Against Governor Newsom, L.A. Mayor Bass

January 22, 2025 6:11 pmJanuary 22, 2025 6:11 pm

The recall efforts against both Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass progressed this week, over their respective mismanagement of the Southern California wildfires. Since January 7th, Los Angeles County has been devastated by several wildfires blazing in...

Senate Republicans Outline Decades of Democrats Killing Wildfire Prevention Bills

January 22, 2025 5:07 pmJanuary 23, 2025 1:10 pm

With several wildfires still blazing in Los Angeles, the Globe has been reflecting on how and why this is happening, especially with the state’s recent history of devastating and deadly wildfires. We harkened back to former Gov. Jerry Brown, who...

Ringside: Quantifying the Upside of More Lawns

January 22, 2025 2:47 pmJanuary 22, 2025 2:47 pm

A respected advocate for farming interests in California once explained to me that every acre of lawn requires 5 acre feet of water per year. The unsubtle implication was that the more lawn we kill, the less water we waste....

More California Chickens Come Home to Roast

January 22, 2025 1:42 pmJanuary 22, 2025 1:42 pm

What burns hotter than a disco inferno? A fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may...

California Lawmakers Hold Candlelight ‘Healing Circle’ because Trump

January 22, 2025 7:27 amJanuary 23, 2025 6:20 am

A small group of California legislators gathered on the west steps of the California State Capitol Tuesday evening to hold a “healing circle” in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. According to Capitol reporter Eytan Wallace, the event included...

President Trump to Gov. Newsom: We’re Putting People over Fish

January 22, 2025 3:15 amJanuary 22, 2025 3:03 pm

Gavin Newsom has seen the light! He’s cutting the state’s business-killing, business-prevention regulations. Hallelujah! “Goodbye red tape. Goodbye bureaucratic nonsense. We’re taking urgent action to speed up debris removal and prevent any further damage to communities that have been impacted...

Public Contract Code Definitions

January 22, 2025 2:30 amJanuary 22, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Public Contract Code, in Division 2, Part 2, Chapter 2, Article 1, there are definitions related to the state acquisition of goods and services. Section 10290 defines the following terms: “department,” “director,” “centralized purchasing,” “goods,” “office,” “price schedule,” “regional...