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Statewide Rent Control Bill Passes Assembly While Tenant-Unionizing Bill Fails in Senate

May 30, 2019 7:52 amMay 30, 2019 1:54 pm

The State Assembly voted Wednesday to impose statewide rent control by capping rent increases. Assembly Bill 1482 would prohibit landlords from raising rent by more than 7 percent plus inflation over the course of a year. The bill, by Assemblyman...

The Homeless Industrial Complex

May 28, 2019 2:15 amAugust 23, 2019 11:24 am

Los Angeles could be at risk of a deadly typhus epidemic this summer according to Dr. Drew Pinsky, an outspoken celebrity doctor and specialist in addiction medicine. Pinsky, a Los Angeles native, recently quoted on Fox News, said: “We have tens and tens...

Assembly Passes Bill Giving Local School Districts Power To Deny Funds to Home Schoolers

May 24, 2019 7:54 amMay 24, 2019 8:37 am

Teacher’s unions and local school districts have been pushing hard at the Capitol to target, limit and even eradicate charter schools, claiming that charters are draining resources from traditional public school districts. Traditional public school districts are laboring under crippling...

Police Use of Force Bill Passes Despite ‘Hindsight analysis’ Rejected by Courts

May 23, 2019 9:55 pmMay 23, 2019 9:56 pm

The police “use of force” bill by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), inspired by the Sacramento police shooting last year of Stephon Clark, is moving ahead, and now officially has the approval by Gov. Gavin Newsom. AB 392 would allow criminal...

Despite Double the Water Average in 2019, CA Imposing Water Rationing and Regulations

May 23, 2019 9:00 amAugust 13, 2019 11:58 am

California is abundant in natural resources: water, oil and natural gas, seafood, timber and minerals. Yet, the state has imposed water rationing on the state’s residents of 55 gallons per person, per day by 2020, is trying to pass legislation...

CA High Speed Rail Authority Seeking More State Subsidies

May 22, 2019 4:08 pmMay 23, 2019 9:01 am

Since 2012, California politicians and the High Speed Rail Authority have wanted to build any part of the California High-Speed Rail system in order to get $3.5 billion in federal stimulus money. The various plans looked more like a whack-a-mole...

Gov. Newsom Appoints Leaders of Cities Overrun With Homeless to New Homeless Commission

May 22, 2019 2:05 amJune 10, 2019 12:33 pm

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May Revise budget proposes an additional $650 million in spending on the state’s homeless, bring the grand total to $1 billion “to fight California’s homelessness crisis.” Newsom’s press release said, “The budget would increase emergency aid for...