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Ringside: Shifting Costs Does Not Solve California’s Electricity Shortages

November 20, 2025 2:55 amNovember 20, 2025 2:56 am

California’s Little Hoover Commission was created in 1962 “as an independent and bipartisan state agency charged with making recommendations to the governor and Legislature on ways to make state programs more efficient.” Funded by taxpayers, officially nonpartisan, they’ve just released a set of...

Financial Support of Parents in California

November 20, 2025 2:30 amNovember 20, 2025 2:31 am

Section 4400 requires an adult child, to the extent of the adult child’s ability, support a parent who is in need and unable to self-maintain by work. Section 4401 makes the promise of an adult child to pay for necessaries...

Taxation and Bonding for California Harbor Districts

November 19, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 19, 2025 2:01 pm

Division 8, Part 3, Chapter 3 concerns taxation and bonds used with harbor districts. Section 6090 states that all bonds issued are obligations of the district and, so long as the bonds are outstanding and unpaid, the board of supervisors...

The Innovative Wealth Tax That Could Break California

November 19, 2025 1:54 pmNovember 19, 2025 1:55 pm

California is not only the home of innovative technology; sadly, it is also the home of innovative tax ideas. The latest breakthrough is a one-time billionaire wealth tax levied on a retroactive basis. But while the union, the former Clinton...

Report: California Faces $18 Billion Budget Shortfall

November 19, 2025 1:51 pmJanuary 17, 2026 1:25 pm

The nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) today released a grim fiscal outlook for the 2026-2027 budget year (see below), warning “budget problem now larger than anticipated” with an $18 billion shortfall. Their estimate is $5 billion more than what...

CA Lawmakers Blame Trump for their Own Impending Budget Disaster

November 19, 2025 1:23 pmNovember 21, 2025 3:58 pm

The California Legislative Analyst’s Office just released their “California Legislative Analyst’s Office fiscal outlook.” It’s not good news. Rather than taking the news like real statesmen, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Assembly Committee on Budget Chair Jesse Gabriel issued statements...

Read the Room Sac County Supervisors: Another Solar Farm Approval is Another Failed Experiment

November 19, 2025 12:04 pmNovember 19, 2025 12:07 pm

In a glaring case of willful stupidity, a proposed 2,700-acre solar farm project east of Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County was just unanimously approved by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in an effort to provide “carbon-free power.” The project...