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Ringside: Will the Sites Reservoir Ever Get Built?

September 4, 2025 2:45 amSeptember 4, 2025 2:46 am

What is happening with the Sites Reservoir is a case study in why, if the people running California today were in charge in the 1950s and 1960s, the California Water Project would never have been built. This reservoir, approved by...

Pilot Projects in Family Law

September 4, 2025 2:30 amSeptember 4, 2025 2:31 am

Division 20, Part 1, Chapter 1 provides general provisions related to pilot projects. Section 20000 specifies four legislative findings and declarations. In addition, there is a statement of legislative intent to provide a means for experimenting with and evaluating procedural...

CSU Professor Indicted, Faces 20 Years In Prison For Assaulting Federal Agents

September 3, 2025 5:04 pmSeptember 3, 2025 5:04 pm

Cal State University Channel Islands professor Jonathan Anthony Caravello has been indicted by a federal grand jury for throwing a tear gas canister at federal agents conducting a raid at a Glass House Farms marijuana facility in Camarillo, CA. He...

San Diego’s Students Sacrificed in the Charter Lawsuit

September 3, 2025 4:51 pmSeptember 3, 2025 4:51 pm

In 2015, San Diego Unified and Grossmont Union High School District decided the best use of their time and taxpayer dollars was not more books, more student resources, or higher teacher pay — but a lawsuit. Their target was charter...

Israeli Dance Researcher/Sociologist Denied Rehire Because She is Jewish, Suing UC Berkeley

September 3, 2025 2:57 pmSeptember 3, 2025 2:57 pm

This July, University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons told a congressional committee that he is committed to fighting anti-Semitism at the school, which is fighting multiple lawsuits and federal discrimination complaints for mistreatment of its Jewish students. Now,...

California’s ’30 Days in Print’ Rule in the Legislature

September 3, 2025 2:00 pmSeptember 3, 2025 2:02 pm

What is the so-called “30 days in print” rule in the California Legislature? The state Constitution, in Article IV, Section 8(a) provides: “(a) At regular sessions no bill other than the budget bill may be heard or acted on by committee...

Taylor Swift, the Prop 50 Ballot Label and the 2026 Elections

September 3, 2025 11:13 amSeptember 3, 2025 2:06 pm

Reading about the fanatical response to the engagement of singer Taylor Swift to football player Travis Kelce strangely brought back a memory of a panel discussion I participated in about 15 years ago on California’s initiative process. It also got...