California Democrat lawmakers are pushing a bill to increase the tax on Medi-Cal managed care plans by another $1.5 billion, to fund the state share of cost in the Medi-Cal program. Or so we are told. While this appears to...
Nancy Pelosi’s campaign brochure arrived at San Francisco voters’ homes just prior to the March 5th Primary elections. It joined the incoming avalanche of dozens of similar political fliers from local candidates, ballot measures, and independent PACs vying for your...
A bill to would require gun owners to annually register their firearms with the California Department of Justice faces a rockier road in Sacramento in the coming weeks as more and more groups come out in opposition against the proposed...
The fast food bill, California’s new $20 minimum wage law has a “cleanup” bill, Assembly Bill 610, which is supposed to… well… clean up the mess made by Assembly Bill 1228. At least that is what we are supposed to...
The Klamath River Renewal Corporation (‘KRRC’) has been misinforming everyone. And when anything goes terribly wrong, they claim it’s “as planned.” The 15-million cubic yards of remaining toxic lake bottom sediments pose a very real and significant threat to the...
Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...
It was exactly a year ago Saturday when officials with the City of Reedley executed a search warrant on what turned out to be a secret, Chinese Communist Party-linked laboratory in the middle of downtown. In the past year, the...