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Lobbying State Agencies

July 29, 2019 2:05 amJuly 28, 2019 3:53 pm

An important, but often over-looked, component of lobbying for or against legislative changes is working with the relevant state agencies or departments to secure a favorable recommendation on the bill that you are lobbying. There are both policy and fiscal...

The Opportunity Cost of Shutting Down Diablo Canyon

July 27, 2019 6:26 amJuly 30, 2019 10:09 am

The flawed policies and phony accounting that are used to present renewables as competitive need to be replaced by honest analysis. For nearly 35 years, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant has pumped just over 2.0 gigawatts of electricity onto...

Leaving California: Interviews With Californians Who Moved To Greener Pastures, Part IV

July 26, 2019 8:02 amJuly 27, 2019 7:06 am

Everyone is piling on California these days, and for many valid reasons. California is always ranked as one of the worst states in the country in which to run a business, while many other states are ranked at the top...

Selected Highlights from California’s Constitution, Part VI

July 26, 2019 2:15 amJuly 26, 2019 6:34 am

The California Constitution, one of the longest of the fifty states, has 32 articles (even though the last one is numbered 35), and three articles contain subparts (Articles 10, 13 and 19). There are approximately 365 sections contained in those...

CA High Speed Rail Crash: Agency Removes Thousands of Documents From Website

July 24, 2019 1:55 pmAugust 2, 2019 5:49 pm

Thousands of pages of public records were removed from the California High Speed Rail Authority website in June. Now, members of the media and anyone seeking information about rail authority spending will only be able to access previously posted documents...

Is ‘Consumer Watchdog’ Just a Lapdog for Special Interests in Attacking Lara?

July 23, 2019 7:58 pmJuly 24, 2019 4:56 am

Maybe because it’s the dog days of summer when the Legislature is out of town, but the news coverage of Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s acceptance – and return – of campaign contributions from donors linked to insurance companies has gotten...

Gov. Newsom’s DMV Strike Team Struck Out; DMV System Crashes During Gov’s Press Conference

July 23, 2019 3:59 pmJuly 24, 2019 1:55 pm

‘Customers have not been altogether satisfied.’ ~Steve Gordon, new California DMV director “Governor Newsom dressed up the old failing DMV in new clothes and tried to convince us it was new,” Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno) said in an interview...