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Rolling Brownouts: Fire Protection in Sutter County Area-F is a 7-Year Documented Emergency

September 2, 2026 4:00 pmSeptember 2, 2026 5:20 pm

Are we being played? The funding problems in Sutter County Service Area-F are no secret. Sutter Fire is County Service Area-F. The 2018–19 Grand Jury found County Service Area-F “dangerously understaffed and alarmingly underfunded.” The 2020–21 Grand Jury repeated that...

Oak Woodlands Conservation Act

September 2, 2026 3:15 pmSeptember 2, 2026 3:15 pm

Division 2, Chapter 4, Article 3.5 deals with the Oak Woodlands Conservation Act under the Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947. Section 1360 names this article as the Oak Woodlands Conservation Act. Section 1361 defines the terms “board,” “conservation easement,” “fund,”...

Gov. Newsom Failed to Rewrite California’s Wildfire Liability System

September 2, 2026 2:16 pm

During the final days of California’s 2026 legislative session, which just concluded Monday at midnight, Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed a last-minute overhaul of the state’s wildfire liability rules. Well, sort of. There wasn’t much effort nothing was resolved. Why? Negotiations...

Arizona House Speaker Demands Answers— Says AG Kris Mayes Omitted Alleged Bribery Offer In Hobbs Pay-to-Play Investigation

September 2, 2026 1:04 pmSeptember 2, 2026 1:04 pm

Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro (R-LD29) is challenging Attorney General Kris Mayes’ decision to decline prosecution in the Hobbs-Sunshine pay-to-play investigation, accusing her office of omitting an alleged 2022 offer by Sunshine Residential Homes CEO Simon Kottoor to influence a...

You Cannot Take Someone’s Children on the Presumption That the Mail Arrived

September 2, 2026 11:13 amSeptember 2, 2026 11:13 am

There may be no more dangerous sentence in America’s lower courts than this one: We mailed it. Not we handed it to her. Not she signed for it. Not we can prove she received it. We mailed it. And in...

Chinese Propaganda, Foreign Influence Campaign Against U.S. AI Data Centers

September 2, 2026 10:36 amSeptember 3, 2026 11:21 am

Data centers are the gigantic physical facilities that house the servers, storage, networking, and cooling systems that store, process, and move digital information. They support cloud computing, streaming, e-commerce, banking, AI, remote work, and most internet services. Data centers make...

Power of Attorney in Probate Law

September 2, 2026 2:30 amSeptember 2, 2026 2:31 am

Division 4.5 of the Probate Code deals with powers of attorney. Part 1, Chapter 1 deals with the short title and definitions. Section 4000 names this division as the Power of Attorney Law. Section 4001 states that specified sections may...