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Senate Kills Bill that Would Have Repealed 65¢ Gas Tax Increase, Low-Carbon Fuel Regs

June 4, 2025 1:00 pmJune 4, 2025 1:30 pm

A Senate bill that would have repealed the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon and end the new LCFS Low-Carbon Fuel regulations that were adopted last year, was killed in the Senate on Wednesday...

California Gov. Newsom and Democrats Driving Gas Prices Through the Roof

June 4, 2025 12:18 pmJune 4, 2025 12:39 pm

California Democrats killed bills this week which would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of 65 cents a gallon from going into effect July 1st. Assembly Republicans tried to suspend constitution (which is frequently done by...

Trump’s Transportation Secretary Releases Report Exposing No Viable Path Forward for California’s High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

June 4, 2025 10:00 amJune 4, 2025 12:37 pm

The U.S. Department of Transportation just released a report Wednesday revealing that California’s High-Speed Rail project is in default of its federal grant agreements and has no viable path to completion – and not a moment too soon as the...

$700K High-Speed Rail Study Bill Passes Senate

June 4, 2025 2:47 amJune 4, 2025 2:48 am

A bill that would commission a study on potential commercial and residential economic development opportunities along the California High Speed Rail (CHSR) corridor between Los Angeles and San Francisco was passed by the Senate on Monday despite significant opposition against...

Forum for Certain Civil Actions in California

June 4, 2025 2:30 amJune 4, 2025 2:31 am

California’s Code of Civil Procedure Part 2, Title 5, Chapter 1, Article 2, deals with jurisdiction and forum in civil actions. Section 410.30 specifies that, when a court upon motion of a party or its own motion finds that in...

CA Senate Democrats Pass Bill Granting Early Parole for ‘Youthful’ Violent Killers Sentenced to LWOP

June 3, 2025 4:54 pmJune 3, 2025 8:51 pm

Apparently, in the State of California, if you are a violent convicted murderer, as long as you were between ages 18 and 26 when you committed your heinous, violent murders, you can count on getting early release – as if...

President Trump’s Stark 25th Amendment Warning on Joe Biden’s Cognitive Condition and VP Kamala Harris’ Constitutional Obligatory Failure

June 3, 2025 3:14 pmJune 3, 2025 3:14 pm

On January 12, 2021, then-President Donald J. Trump issued a stark warning: “The 25th Amendment is of zero risk to me, but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden administration. As the expression goes, “Be careful what...