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Gov. Newsom’s Climate Change Pal Resigns as New Zealand Prime Minister

January 19, 2023 3:13 pmJanuary 21, 2023 7:55 am

In May, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern signed a “pledge” agreeing to help fight climate change together by working to put millions more electric vehicles on the road, the Globe reported. Why, when New Zealand...

Senators Temporarily Cover ‘Unrepresented’ Areas of California

January 19, 2023 3:03 pmJanuary 19, 2023 3:17 pm

As a result of the interaction of different provisions of law, and the odd-numbered and even-numbered Senate districts, there are instances each ten years for a geographic area of the state to either not have an elected senator representing some...

Former Top LA Democratic Fundraiser Dixon Slingerland Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement, Filing False Taxes

January 18, 2023 2:30 amJanuary 17, 2023 9:57 pm

Dixon Slingerland, the former head of the non-profit group Youth Policy Institute Inc. and once one of the top Democratic fundraisers in Los Angeles, pled guilty to embezzlement from the non-profit and filing false tax returns on Tuesday, and is...

Is Gov. Newsom’s Latest Emergency Order an Emergency, or Another Opportunity ?

January 17, 2023 1:50 pmJanuary 17, 2023 1:00 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom signed another storm recovery and emergency Executive Order on Monday, continuing to add state support as storms continue to batter California all over the state, the Globe reported. The governor’s latest executive order declaring a state of...

California Pensioners Taking the State Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire

January 17, 2023 1:42 pmJanuary 17, 2023 2:48 pm

California is arguably the best thing that ever happened on planet Earth. From literal gold-seekers of the 19th century to Grapes of Wrath Okies, to Reagan-era business tycoons, California has long been where Americans and others went to make their...

What May California Judges Do in Chambers?

January 17, 2023 6:33 amJanuary 17, 2023 6:36 am

The California Code of Civil Procedure (CCP) specifies powers of judges at chambers, which are contained in Chapter 2 of Title 2 of Part 1 of the CCP, which was added in 1880. CCP Section 165 authorizes the justices of...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Opened a Reparations Can of Worms

January 17, 2023 2:45 amJanuary 18, 2023 6:29 am

Despite that California was never a slave state, the San Francisco reparations committee just announced a proposal to pay each multi-decade black resident of the City $5 million. But Wait! It doesn’t stop there. The reparations committee also proposed granting total...