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Californians Paying 140% More For Electricity than Other States

March 14, 2024 2:55 amMarch 15, 2024 11:50 am

Electricity in Taft, California costs 275% more than what electricity costs in Bullhead City, Arizona. While residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco may feel comfortably smug hundreds of miles away from the Kern County city, it is rare to...

Ringside: California’s Dubious Megaprojects

March 14, 2024 2:39 amMarch 14, 2024 2:40 am

It would be inaccurate to suggest that California’s state Legislature can no longer think big. They can, and as such they are carrying on a tradition that two generations ago gave us the best universities in the world, expressways and...

Su Ignores Subpoena, Congress Irked

March 13, 2024 8:41 pmMarch 13, 2024 8:41 pm

Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su has ignored a Congressional subpoena issued last November and the electeds that issued the subpoena really want to know why. For more than a year, the House Education and the Workforce Committee has been trying...

Power Plays

March 13, 2024 5:23 pmMarch 13, 2024 5:23 pm

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair On Feb. 6, Pacific Gas and Electric dropped a bomb on residents of California’s North Coast: the company...

Who is Behind the Removal of the Four Klamath Dams?

March 13, 2024 12:27 pmMarch 13, 2024 12:29 pm

In November 2022, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the removal of four dams on the Lower Klamath River. The Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) is already removing the dams, as the Globe has reported here, and here, and here,...

Professional Strikebreakers under the California Labor Code

March 13, 2024 2:45 amMarch 13, 2024 2:46 am

The use of “professional strikebreakers” is prohibited in the State of California. The law addressing professional strikebreakers is contained in Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Part 3 of Division 2 of the California Labor Code. Section 1130 sets forth...

Gov. Newsom Denies Parole Of Murderer Who Killed Teenager In SF In 2004

March 12, 2024 12:51 pmMarch 13, 2024 9:20 am

Governor Gavin Newsom reversed the state Parole Board’s decision of paroling Royce Miller, a murder convicted of killing a San Francisco high school student in 2004, during the weekend, sending him back to prison until his next parole board review...