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WeHo Pride Arts Festival: Taxpayer-Funded Ghost Town at the Wrong Address – Late May, Wrong City, and Zero Crowd

May 28, 2026 7:00 amMay 28, 2026 7:01 am

Leave it to the City of West Hollywood to throw a “free” Pride Arts Festival in late May—weeks before actual Pride month and host it at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, which is...

Strengthening Fiscal Oversight of California’s Cannabis Tax Revenue

May 28, 2026 6:00 amMay 28, 2026 6:01 am

California has collected more than $7.87 billion in cannabis-related tax revenue since recreational sales began in January 2018. As a candidate for State Controller, I view this figure not through the lens of policy debates on legalization, but through the...

Consumer Credit Denials

May 28, 2026 2:30 amMay 28, 2026 2:35 am

Civil Code Division 3, Part 4, Title 1.6B deals with consumer credit denials in California. Article 1 contains general provisions. Section 1787.1 names this title “The Holden Credit Denial Disclosure Act of 1976.” Section 1787.2 provides that, within 30 days,...

Gov. Newsom Proposes 100% Tax on Trump’s January 6 ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’

May 27, 2026 7:54 pmMay 27, 2026 7:54 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday he will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.” And Newsom is looking forward to doing it. He said so. Newsom is talking about imposing a...

ICE Detainee Who Died From Dental Infection Repeatedly Declined Recommended Treatment, Autopsy Report Shows

May 27, 2026 2:44 pmMay 27, 2026 2:44 pm

A Haitian man who died after months in federal immigration custody in Arizona succumbed to complications stemming from severe dental disease, according to an autopsy report released this month, which also found that he had declined recommended tooth extractions prior...

Ringside: Fine Tuning the Environmentalist’s ‘Water Renaissance’ Plan for California

May 27, 2026 2:11 pmMay 27, 2026 2:12 pm

The recently released “Water Renaissance” plan, a product of “conservation groups and tribes,” gets a very big idea right. There is no reason why California’s coastal megacities should have to import water. With that one visionary presumption, this report has...

Unlawful Contracts

May 27, 2026 2:00 pmMay 27, 2026 2:01 pm

Civil Code Division 4, Part 2, Title 4 deals with unlawful contracts in California. Section 1667 provides that it is not lawful which is contrary to an express provision of law; contrary to the policy of express law, though not...