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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...

California Cadet Corps

April 17, 2025 2:30 amApril 17, 2025 6:29 am

The California Cadet Corps is established in Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Division 2 of the Military and Veterans Code. Section 500 allows the students of a school, college, or community college in this state to be organized into...

Valero Energy Announces Plans to Exit California, Incurs $1.1 Billion Charges to Refinery Operations

April 16, 2025 5:50 pmApril 16, 2025 5:51 pm

Citing low operating margins, increased operating costs and a growingly harsh regulatory environment, including a state mandated moratorium on the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles by 2035, and in the wake of an $85 million fine related to “egregious...

Valero Announces it Will Shut Down Benicia Refinery April 2026

April 16, 2025 12:39 pmApril 17, 2025 12:05 pm

California Democrats’ war on the oil and gas industry is working, but not for the people. In another blow to California’s oil and gas industry, and the state’s fuel; supply, Valero Energy Corporation announced Wednesday it will shut down its...

Cash to California’s Classrooms, Not Bureaucrats

April 16, 2025 6:53 amApril 16, 2025 6:53 am

California’s education system is broken and needs deep, system-wide reform. Despite the state spending more than $18,000 on each student, public school performance continues to worsen. In the 2023–2024 school year, the rate of chronically absent students reached 20.4%, meaning...

Harvard Now Offers Remedial Math Acknowledging America’s Math Collapse

April 16, 2025 2:55 amApril 16, 2025 2:56 am

There is a lack of foundational algebra skills among American students. According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, 73 percent of eighth graders nationwide taking the test failed to score at the proficient level. Lance Izumi, senior director...