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New Bill Would Give Up to $750 Tax Credits for Pet Adoption Continues To Await Assembly Hearing

April 17, 2025 7:39 pmApril 17, 2025 7:39 pm

A new bill that would give Californians up to $750 worth of tax credits to cover pet adoption fees from a shelter, plus first year of ownership medical expenses, continues to await being heard in a committee this week. Assembly...

UC Berkeley’s 2025 Male Supremacism Studies Conference

April 17, 2025 4:10 pmApril 17, 2025 4:12 pm

With all of the really serious news in California – Gov. Newsom suing the Trump administration again, Valero closing its Benicia refinery, Kamala Harris will/will not run for governor, high violent crime, $5.00 a gallon for gas, biological boys in...

With DOGE Cuts on CISA Budget Looming, Private Sector Must Step Up

April 17, 2025 3:01 pmApril 17, 2025 3:01 pm

Nowadays, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are caught in an endless cybersecurity “Squid Game,” where the rules keep changing, the stakes are life-or-death for their data, and no one’s offering a second chance. Except, instead of harmless childhood games and...

Medicare and a Nation of Fools

April 17, 2025 2:08 pmApril 17, 2025 2:08 pm

Medicare is a big fat scam, and it always has been. It’s an adjunct of Social Security, itself a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “an investment swindle in which some early investors are paid...

California Governor Creating Energy Poverty with 3,200-foot Setbacks Around Oil and Gas Wells

April 17, 2025 12:01 pmApril 19, 2025 9:25 am

As of 2024, more than 1 out of 6 households, or 21.12 million Americans are behind in energy bill payments. In California, energy poverty is real and pushes people further down into poverty. The Globe reported Wednesday on a new...

California Faces Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Property Seizure Under Senate Bill 1137

April 17, 2025 3:10 amApril 17, 2025 3:11 am

California mineral owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of Senate Bill 1137, a law that authorizes the unprecedented and unlawful seizure of property rights for everyday Californians. SB 1137, which took effect on June 27, 2024, bans the...

Ringside: Ways to Rein in the California Coastal Commission

April 17, 2025 2:55 amApril 17, 2025 12:08 pm

There is a growing bipartisan consensus even here in California that environmentalist restrictions have gone too far. It would be a dishonest oversimplification to pretend environmentalists have outlived their usefulness, or that many of the accomplishments of environmentalists over the...