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California’s Fast Food Minimum Wage Continues to Bite Workers, Consumers and Owners

March 20, 2026 4:40 amMarch 20, 2026 4:41 am

California is reaching a grim two-year anniversary of the ill-advised $20 fast food minimum wage. AB 1228, California’s $20 wage law for fast food workers, cost non-tipped restaurant workers 250 hours of work annually, equating to up to 7 weeks...

Sale of Corporate Assets

March 20, 2026 2:30 amMarch 20, 2026 2:31 am

Chapter 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 deals with the sale of assets by corporations. Section 1000 provides that any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge or other hypothecation of all or any part of the corporation’s property, real or...

The Morning Routine That Just Vanished: Lunches Unpacked, Coffee Gone Cold and Kids With Nowhere to Go 

March 19, 2026 2:14 pmMarch 19, 2026 2:14 pm

Imagine waking up before dawn, packing lunches, brewing coffee, dropping your kids at school and then heading into your work day. Now you can focus on building your career and generating the income your family depends on, all because your kids are safe...

Feds Arrest 10 in Sophisticated Identity Theft Ring That Stole $17M From Elderly Homeowners

March 19, 2026 2:07 pmMarch 20, 2026 11:05 am

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli delivered another powerful blow against the wave of fraud plaguing California, announcing today the arrests of 10 defendants — eight in Los Angeles County and two foreign nationals — charged in a 15-count federal...

Aquaculture in California

March 19, 2026 2:00 pmMarch 19, 2026 2:01 pm

Fish and Game Code Division 12, Chapter 1 provides general provisions on aquaculture in this state. Section 15000 states that the business of aquaculture is governed by this division and is exempt from specified laws and any other provision of...

Sacramento’s Idea of a Transition

March 19, 2026 1:12 pmMarch 19, 2026 1:16 pm

In 1991, California had more than forty refineries. By the end of 2026, it will have fewer than eleven. Of those, only five are large enough to matter. Phillips 66 shuttered its 147,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles refinery in December. Valero’s Benicia...

Ringside: The Many Benefits of Dredging the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

March 19, 2026 12:00 pmMarch 19, 2026 12:01 pm

The salmon decline in the delta has been attributed to the impact of water withdrawals into the California Aqueduct and the Delta Mendota Canal. But something else happened at the same time as the pumps were began operating; dredging in...