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Ringside: How Dredging the Delta Enables Groundwater Recharge

August 28, 2025 3:45 amAugust 28, 2025 3:46 am

ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization and winner of multiple Pulitzer prizes, recently published a report “The Drying Planet.” They report that “Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the...

California’s Identity Support Plans Erode Parents’ Rights

August 28, 2025 2:45 amAugust 28, 2025 2:46 am

California’s Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD), like many districts across the state, offers a confidential arrangement known as an Identity Support Plan for transgender and gender-nonconforming students. Under this policy, staff are required to affirm a student’s stated gender...

Administration of Oaths

August 28, 2025 2:30 amAugust 28, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure in Part 4, Title 6, Chapter 3 deals with the administration of oaths and affirmations. Section 2093 provides that a court, judge or clerk of a court, justice, notary public, and officer or person authorized...

Thoughts on the Lawsuit Against Prop. 50

August 27, 2025 2:20 pmAugust 27, 2025 2:24 pm

As I have been asked about my thoughts regarding the legislative process challenges to the redistricting legislative package, I prepared this brief article in response. Being the legislative geek that I am, as well as teaching the course “Lawmaking in...

BREAKING: Assembly Leader Gallagher’s 2-State Solution to California’s Malfeasance

August 27, 2025 10:51 amAugust 28, 2025 12:16 pm

California Assembly Republican Minority Leader James Gallagher (R–East Nicolaus) held a press conference Wednesday to announce a resolution calling for the creation of a new U.S. state made up of 35 inland California counties. This division of California between the...

Gov. Newsom: It’s Kumbaya in California Because of Him

August 27, 2025 3:00 amAugust 27, 2025 3:01 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom is having fun with internal polls, and with reliable leftist pollsters. Last week we were supposed to believe that Newsom’s approval rating jumped 40 points since 2023: A USA Today/Politico survey conducted July 28–Aug 12 shows...

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Evidence in Particular Cases

August 27, 2025 2:30 amAugust 27, 2025 2:31 am

Chapter 1 of Title 6 of Part 4 of the Code of Civil Procedure deals with evidence in particular cases. Section 2074 provides that an offer in writing to pay a particular sum of money, or to deliver a written...