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A Meaningful Step for California’s Disabled Veterans

June 23, 2026 3:00 pmJune 23, 2026 3:01 pm

California Assembly Bill 2022, authored by Republican Assemblyman and Marine Corps veteran Jeff Gonzalez, has taken another important step forward for disabled veterans and their families. The bill reportedly passed the Senate Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs with a...

Medical Provider Networks

June 23, 2026 2:00 pmJune 23, 2026 2:01 pm

Division 4, Part 2, Chapter 2, Article 2.3 of the Labor Code deals with medical provider networks under the California workers’ compensation laws. Section 4616 provides that an insurer, employer, or entity that provides physician network services may establish or...

Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Be Placed Before Voters

June 23, 2026 11:48 amJune 23, 2026 11:48 am

Coming into print at 9pm on June 22, the California Legislature is expected to pass ACA 20 by Thursday’s deadline to place measures on the statewide ballot for November 3. The following is a summary of the provisions of ACA...

$906M Medicare Fraud: Nevada Nurse Indicted for Bilking Taxpayers with Fake Grafts on Hospice Patients

June 23, 2026 9:35 amJune 23, 2026 9:35 am

A Las Vegas-based nurse practitioner has been federally indicted in one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in recent years, accused of billing taxpayers nearly a billion dollars for medically unnecessary wound grafts, including on terminally ill hospice patients who...

Crazifornia: 17 States Sue California to Block Plastic Packaging Recycling Law

June 23, 2026 8:30 amJune 23, 2026 8:31 am

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers is leading a coalition of 17 Republican state attorneys general, and the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors in suing California over Senate Bill 54, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. The law was...

Don’t Outsource Judgment: Keeping Parents at the Center of Digital Safety

June 23, 2026 8:00 amJune 23, 2026 8:01 am

Online safety cannot be achieved through blanket bans. Throughout history, prohibitions seldom eliminate risk; they push danger into places we can’t see or regulate, exactly where it’s hardest to protect our kids. AB 1709 promises a front-door solution – barring...

LA Councilman Wants To Tax LA’s Private Country Clubs, Protected Under Prop 13

June 23, 2026 7:00 amJune 23, 2026 7:01 am

Six of Los Angeles’s highest-end private golf and country clubs are facing a property tax battle with local LA City Councilman and former Democrat Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, who wants to drastically raise their taxes after learning that they “have a...