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Governor Newsom Signs 2024-2025 State Budget

July 1, 2024 5:16 pmJuly 2, 2024 3:51 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 2024-2025 state budget legislation Saturday, officially putting the new $297.9 billion budget into effect on Monday. The California State Legislature approved the 2024-2025 budget plan on Wednesday night, giving the green light on California spending...

New Legislative Ballot Measure Contains Intriguing Provisions

July 1, 2024 5:04 pmJuly 1, 2024 5:04 pm

In the evening of Sunday, June 30, Senate Bill 1381 was gutted-and-amended to contain a proposed ballot measure by the Legislature for the November 5 General Election. The amendments were adopted on July 1 and substitute new authors for the...

Regulatory Capture and Medicine

July 1, 2024 4:57 pmJuly 1, 2024 4:58 pm

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or communism on a people is by way of medicine. This is a very true warning issued in the past which has played out and plagues California and the nation today. I know...

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...