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Gov. Newsom Selects Anti-Trust Lawyer Tai Milder As First Division of Petroleum Market Oversight Director

August 2, 2023 2:30 amAugust 2, 2023 2:31 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday that former antitrust prosecutor Tai Milder will lead the new Division of Petroleum Market Oversight, the new office created under the recently passed SBx1-2 “gas price gouging” law. SBx1-2, authored by Senator Nancy Skinner...

California Set To Criminalize Passionate Parents At School Board Meetings

August 1, 2023 3:16 pmAugust 2, 2023 11:27 am

The California Legislature is moving a bill through the legislative process that could very well criminalize passionate parents that speak up a school board meetings. Indeed, the law could apply to any passionate community partner who dares to voice a...

Three Years Later, Gov. Newsom Clings to Emergency COVID Powers – For the ‘Next Emergency’

August 1, 2023 8:35 amAugust 1, 2023 8:38 am

“Did Gov. Newsom Really End CA’s COVID-19 State of Emergency?” the Globe asked March 1st when the governor announced he was lifting his emergency COVID order. “Three years later, it doesn’t appear the governor is really giving up his emergency...

Should Legislative Grants of Rulemaking Authority Always Include Specific Guidance from the Legislature?

August 1, 2023 6:54 amAugust 1, 2023 7:01 am

Under constitutional separation-of-powers provisions, generally the laws are enacted by the legislative branch of government, the laws are administered by the executive branch, and the laws are interpreted by the judicial branch. California’s Constitution, in fact, provides specifically for this...

Globe Interviews Reedley Code Enforcement Officer in Mysterious Chinese COVID Lab Case

July 31, 2023 5:23 pmAugust 3, 2023 10:18 am

Why does California keep tripping up against China whenever there is a sketchy COVID issue? We may not have the answer yet, but at least we are peeling back the layers of the mysterious Chinese COVID lab in Reedley, CA...

Homeless Help or Hindrance?

July 31, 2023 12:27 pmJuly 31, 2023 1:10 pm

As of December, 2021, Santa Rosa City Councilmember Harrison Newton Jesse “Jack” Tibbetts, and Executive Director of St. Vincent de Paul Sonoma County, abruptly resigned from his council position. Given that he was reelected to a second term in November...

Office of Legislative Counsel Sometimes Needs to Clean-up the Codes

July 31, 2023 6:22 amJuly 31, 2023 6:37 am

In recently-enacted legislation during the 2023 California Legislative Session, readers will see examples of how attorneys in the Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) clean-up statutes due to outdated language, and even misspelled words contained in existing California Codes. The following...