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Schools Brace For New Law Prohibiting Notifying Parents of Students Pronoun Change

December 14, 2024 8:14 amDecember 14, 2024 8:17 am

Schools across California have continued to scramble this month to be prepared for a new law coming into effect on January 1st that prohibits school districts from allowing teachers to notify parents if their child is using a new pronoun...

UC Riverside ‘DEI Guardians’ Persecute Professor for Objecting to Racial Hiring Preferences

December 14, 2024 2:55 amDecember 14, 2024 2:56 am

Diversity, equity and inclusion proponents are not very inclusive of anybody who disagrees with them. In a harrowing Wall Street Journal opinion piece published earlier this week, University of California at Riverside Professor Perry Link recounted how he was hounded,...

Sabotage Prevention Act

December 14, 2024 2:30 amDecember 14, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Military and Veterans Code, in Division 7, Chapter 2, contains the Sabotage Prevention Act of 1950. Article 1 concerns general provisions and definitions. Section 1630 states that the chapter is cited as the Sabotage Prevention Act of 1950. Section...

Ringside: Is Photovoltaic Power Competitive?

December 13, 2024 2:55 amDecember 13, 2024 2:56 am

As reported in Politico on 10/29, “Westlands Water District, which supplies some of California’s driest farmland in the Central Valley, is making plans to convert some 200 square miles of it — an area roughly the size of Detroit — into what would...

Why Would the Legislature Request?

December 13, 2024 2:30 amDecember 13, 2024 2:31 am

We know in drafting California statutes, the term “shall” is mandatory and the term “may” is permissive. In other words, required conduct found in a statute uses the word “shall,” while discretionary conduct found in a statute used the word...

Farmers Insurance to Increase Number Of Homeowner & Renter Policies in California

December 12, 2024 5:50 pmDecember 12, 2024 5:50 pm

In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Farmers Insurance said that they will be going against the trend of insurance companies in California by increasing the number of renters and homeowners policies. For the past two years, insurance companies have been...

Assemblyman Essayli Files Ethics Complaint Regarding Alleged Bribery, Corruption by Legislator

December 12, 2024 5:04 pmDecember 14, 2024 8:09 am

Assemblyman Bill Essayli filed a Legislative Ethics complaint calling for a formal investigation into a Member of the California Legislature following the release of a plea agreement filed with the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Essayli...