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Sen. Wiener Wants to Ditch State Environmental Review for San Francisco Building Projects

February 17, 2024 8:34 amFebruary 17, 2024 8:34 am

A bill to exempt all San Francisco building projects within a certain area of the city from the California Environmental Quality Act for ten years was introduced in the Senate on Friday. CEQA is a law that requires significant environmental...

Bipartisan Bill to Create Statewide Homeless Encampment Ban Introduced In Senate

February 7, 2024 12:25 pmFebruary 7, 2024 12:25 pm

A new bipartisan bill to ban homeless encampments from many public areas across the state was introduced in the Senate this week, with Republicans and Democrats coming together. Senate Bill 1011, jointly authored by Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) and Senator...

California Business Exodus For Friendlier States Continues

January 29, 2024 12:06 pmJanuary 29, 2024 12:06 pm

Most Californians know why California businesses are fleeing the once-Golden State in droves. Small, medium and large businesses are packing up and moving to business friendlier states for lower taxes, fewer regulations, and affordable housing for their employees. And they...

$478,000 Per Unit: Homeless ‘Tiny’ Apartments Now Open in Sacramento

January 11, 2024 8:17 amJanuary 12, 2024 4:56 pm

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg proudly announced “Sacramento’s historic Capitol Park Hotel reopens this week as St. Clare at Capitol Park, a permanent supportive housing complex for people experiencing homelessness.” Calling the state’s homeless vagrant population “unhoused” has justified spending billions...

CA Dept. of Insurance Approved State Farm 20% Home Insurance Rate Increase

January 4, 2024 4:48 pmJanuary 5, 2024 11:29 am

The California Department of Insurance approved a request by State Farm Insurance on Wednesday to allow the company to raise all active home insurance rates by 20%. Throughout 2023, multiple insurance companies operating in California either stopped accepting all new...

Homeless In Karen Bass’ Los Angeles

December 16, 2023 2:30 amDecember 16, 2023 2:31 am

This week, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated her first year in office, and highlighted the “success” of her Inside Safe project. However, as the Globe and other outlets have pointed out, her program has been far from a success,...

LA Mayor Karen Bass Celebrates One Year In Office Despite Homeless Program Failures

December 13, 2023 2:30 amDecember 15, 2023 6:12 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated one year in office on Tuesday, with many Angelinos reflecting negatively because of her failure to improve the growing homeless problem in the city. In November 2022, Bass narrowly defeated developer Rick Caruso and...