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Legislative Witnesses

October 17, 2024 2:10 pmOctober 17, 2024 2:18 pm

Chapter 4 deals with witnesses. Section 9400 defines the term “committee.” Section 9401 provides that a subpoena requiring the attendance of any witness before the Senate, Assembly, or a committee may be issued by the President of the Senate, Speaker...

Ringside: Would Suing the Bureaucracy Bring Us More Water?

October 17, 2024 6:30 amOctober 17, 2024 6:31 am

There isn’t a major water project in California in the last 30 years or more that hasn’t been subject to relentless litigation. Usually the litigators represent powerful environmentalist organizations, sometimes they represent social justice groups, and sometimes they represent labor....

Gavin Newsom Chases Another Oil Company Out of California

October 16, 2024 3:55 pmOctober 16, 2024 8:07 pm

Phillips 66 announced Wednesday that it plans to close operations at its Los Angeles-area refinery late in 2025. The company said in a press statement that it “will work with the state of California to supply fuel markets and meet...

Legislative Offices around the State

October 16, 2024 12:45 pmOctober 16, 2024 4:35 pm

Section 9100 provides that legislative offices for the use of the Members of the Legislature in the performance of their legislative duties, are to be maintained at all times, and without regard to whether the Legislature is or is not...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Sues California Coastal Commission

October 16, 2024 7:59 amOctober 16, 2024 4:36 pm

The California Coastal Commission is living up to its dodgy reputation, and is now getting sued by the world’s richest entrepreneur for it. Last week, the CCC voted to deny more launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara...

Doctors Appeal Federal Ruling over California’s Mandatory ‘Implicit Bias’ Medical Ed Classes

October 16, 2024 2:55 amOctober 16, 2024 1:13 pm

Despite an adverse court ruling, some California doctors are continuing to fight a noxious state law that requires continuing medical education classes to include implicit bias lessons that tells physicians they are closet racists. They are appealing a federal judge’s...

Records and Reports Due Under the Unemployment Insurance Code

October 16, 2024 2:30 amOctober 16, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code deals with records, reports, and contribution payments in Division 1, Part 1, Chapter 4, Article 6. Section 1085 requires every employing unit to keep a true and accurate work record of all his workers and their...