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California Legislature Approves $2.5B Wildfire Relief Bills

January 23, 2025 1:09 pmJanuary 23, 2025 5:20 pm

California State Senators and Assembly members unanimously passed two bills Thursday morning to provide a total of $3 billion to help Los Angeles begin recovery and cleanup from the devastating wildfires. The proposed funding in Assembly Bill 4 and Senate...

Capistrano School District Accused of Trampling First Amendment Rights of Student

January 23, 2025 9:27 amJanuary 23, 2025 9:28 am

Woke school officials are notorious for stamping out racism where none exists. Last year, San Diego school district officials got sued for punishing a student for supposedly wearing blackface at a football game when it was really just face paint....

Greenberg: San Francisco Must Abandon DEI

January 23, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 23, 2025 2:56 am

The flurry of executive orders signed these past 48 hours since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President has been breathtaking. And in his desire to rein in not only astounding lapses in judgement (and malice) by ousted...

Security Entitlements under California Law

January 23, 2025 2:28 amJanuary 23, 2025 2:29 am

The Commercial Code, in Division 8, Chapter 5, deals with security entitlements for investment securities. Section 8501 defines the term “securities account.” A person acquires a security entitlement if a securities intermediary does any of the three specifies actions. If...

Senate Republicans Outline Decades of Democrats Killing Wildfire Prevention Bills

January 22, 2025 5:07 pmJanuary 23, 2025 1:10 pm

With several wildfires still blazing in Los Angeles, the Globe has been reflecting on how and why this is happening, especially with the state’s recent history of devastating and deadly wildfires. We harkened back to former Gov. Jerry Brown, who...

Ringside: Quantifying the Upside of More Lawns

January 22, 2025 2:47 pmJanuary 22, 2025 2:47 pm

A respected advocate for farming interests in California once explained to me that every acre of lawn requires 5 acre feet of water per year. The unsubtle implication was that the more lawn we kill, the less water we waste....

More California Chickens Come Home to Roast

January 22, 2025 1:42 pmJanuary 22, 2025 1:42 pm

What burns hotter than a disco inferno? A fire in a battery energy storage system designed to store electricity from intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Both Goleta and Nipomo have these battery energy storage facilities and Lompoc may...