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What Does California Need to Stabilize the State’s Oil Supply?

October 31, 2025 2:45 amOctober 31, 2025 7:11 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation in September that fast tracks the approval of 2,000 new wells per year over the next 10 years in Kern County, a significant oil-producing region. “Translation: I, Gavin C. Newsom, am slightly reversing course...

Legal Advocacy Stops a Racially Exclusionary Scholarship at UC San Diego

October 30, 2025 2:06 pmOctober 30, 2025 2:06 pm

Wenyuan Wu In the case of a joint legal challenge to halt the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund, a 42-year-old program at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the wheels of justice turned quickly. Almost immediately after our lawsuit Californians...

Legislative Committees in California

October 30, 2025 2:00 pmOctober 30, 2025 2:12 pm

Both Assembly and Senate Standing Committees do the bulk of the legislative work in the California Legislature. How many are there and what are their sizes? This information is for the 2025 Legislative Session. The Assembly has 32 standing committees....

How the California FAIR Plan Turned into a Great Pumpkin Nightmare

October 30, 2025 1:32 pmOctober 30, 2025 1:32 pm

The Great Pumpkin’s annual ascent from the sincerest patch is always a spectacle—but the 2025 vintage comes with a non-festive twist: a 35.8% spike in “ride” fares, leaving homeowners clutching their candy bags and wailing, “I got a rock!” (And...

The AWS Outage Just a Glimpse of Potential Cyber Chaos

October 30, 2025 11:12 amOctober 30, 2025 11:12 am

As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close, it ends having given us all a small glimpse into the potential chaos that awaits us if hackers had their way. A couple of weeks ago, Amazon Web Services suffered a massive...

Why Newsom’s Gruesome Prop 50 Power Grab Must Be Stopped

October 30, 2025 7:00 amOctober 30, 2025 7:31 am

California is home to 4.2 million small businesses, representing 99.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employing 7 million workers. More than 90 percent of California businesses employ fewer than 10 employees, and 7 percent of the state’s...

If You Don’t Vote, We Can’t Win!

October 30, 2025 3:10 amOctober 30, 2025 3:11 am

One of my favorite movie lines, because it made me think, was in “Chariots of Fire.” Chariots of Fire is a true story, a 1981 film about two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout...