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Frequently Asked Questions about Incompatible Activities

April 12, 2024 2:40 amApril 12, 2024 6:33 am

Does California law provide guidance on incompatible activities? Yes, Government Code Title 1, Division 4, Chapter 1, Article 4.7 concerns incompatible activities and was added to state law in 1971. Article 4.7 contains Sections 1125 to 1129. Who is affected...

A Time When America United to Discourage Kids From Taking Drugs

April 11, 2024 4:21 pmApril 11, 2024 4:22 pm

A review of the book DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools (Max Felker-Kantor, The University of North Carolina Press) in the May 2024 issue of Reason Magazine looks back 42 years to the launch...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

HHS Secretary Xavier Baccaria for California Governor?

April 11, 2024 8:00 amApril 11, 2024 8:17 am

Biden Administration Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra let slip this week that he is considering leaving the administration to run for California Governor, Politico reported. “I miss California,” Becerra said at the start of a talk at Manny’s...

Traffic Violence? Is That a Real Thing?

April 11, 2024 2:55 amApril 11, 2024 2:56 am

So there’s gun violence, domestic violence, gang violence – those are, sadly, real things. Then there’s the concept that silence is violence – apparently things that rhyme are the same, like plants and pants (though grass pants would presumably be...

Frequently Asked Questions about California Government Holidays and Designated Days

April 11, 2024 2:30 amApril 11, 2024 2:31 am

Does California law provide for state holidays? Yes, Government Code Title 1, Division 7, Chapter 7 deals with holidays. Chapter 7, which contains Section 6700 to 6730, was added to state law in 1951. What holidays are provided for in...

Trouble In Dam Removal Paradise – Kiewit Has Pulled-Out of Klamath River Dam Project

April 10, 2024 5:15 pmApril 11, 2024 4:04 pm

This is part of a series about the Klamath Dam Removal project in Siskiyou County. The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat...

EDD Admits $55 Billion Lost in Pandemic… $55 Billion!

April 10, 2024 4:36 pmApril 10, 2024 4:37 pm

The California Employment Development Department admits that $55 billion was lost in the pandemic. $55 Billion. That’s what the hapless state unemployment agency – the not at all ironically named Employment Development Department – now admits was its “overpayment” amount...