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Taxation and Bonding for California Harbor Districts

November 19, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 19, 2025 2:01 pm

Division 8, Part 3, Chapter 3 concerns taxation and bonds used with harbor districts. Section 6090 states that all bonds issued are obligations of the district and, so long as the bonds are outstanding and unpaid, the board of supervisors...

The Innovative Wealth Tax That Could Break California

November 19, 2025 1:54 pmNovember 19, 2025 1:55 pm

California is not only the home of innovative technology; sadly, it is also the home of innovative tax ideas. The latest breakthrough is a one-time billionaire wealth tax levied on a retroactive basis. But while the union, the former Clinton...

Report: California Faces $18 Billion Budget Shortfall

November 19, 2025 1:51 pmJanuary 17, 2026 1:25 pm

The nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) today released a grim fiscal outlook for the 2026-2027 budget year (see below), warning “budget problem now larger than anticipated” with an $18 billion shortfall. Their estimate is $5 billion more than what...

CA Lawmakers Blame Trump for their Own Impending Budget Disaster

November 19, 2025 1:23 pmNovember 21, 2025 3:58 pm

The California Legislative Analyst’s Office just released their “California Legislative Analyst’s Office fiscal outlook.” It’s not good news. Rather than taking the news like real statesmen, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Assembly Committee on Budget Chair Jesse Gabriel issued statements...

Read the Room Sac County Supervisors: Another Solar Farm Approval is Another Failed Experiment

November 19, 2025 12:04 pmNovember 19, 2025 12:07 pm

In a glaring case of willful stupidity, a proposed 2,700-acre solar farm project east of Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County was just unanimously approved by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in an effort to provide “carbon-free power.” The project...

Disclosure of Information in Adoptions

November 19, 2025 2:30 amNovember 19, 2025 2:31 am

Division 13, Part 2, Chapter 7 concerns the disclosure of information related to the adoption of unmarried minors in this state. Section 9200 states that the petition, relinquishment or consent, agreement, order, report to the court from any investigating agency,...

Gag Rule Prevents California Public Employees from Knowing Their Constitutional Rights

November 18, 2025 2:15 pmNovember 18, 2025 2:20 pm

The First Amendment right of public employees to decline union membership and dues deductions was unambiguously affirmed seven years ago by the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus v. AFSCME. Unfortunately, no one can exercise a right they don’t know they...