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Sen Marie Alvarado-Gil Urges Veto Override by Legislature for Gov. Newsom’s Failure to Protect Firefighters

October 9, 2025 5:03 pmOctober 9, 2025 5:06 pm

California State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil (R-Jackson) urged her colleagues in the California Legislature to override Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of AB 1309 by Assemblyman Heath Flora (R-Ripon), would have required the state to pay rank-and-file Cal Fire firefighters within 15...

Saving Catalina’s Deer: Why the Conservancy’s New Eradication Plan Must Be Stopped

October 9, 2025 3:30 amOctober 9, 2025 3:31 am

In the sun-drenched hills of Santa Catalina Island, a controversial shadow looms once again over the island’s iconic mule deer population. Just months after scrapping a widely condemned helicopter-based culling plan, the Catalina Island Conservancy has unveiled a revised proposal:...

Ringside: Is Biodiesel Sustainable?

October 9, 2025 2:55 amOctober 9, 2025 2:56 am

For the most part, California’s farmers grow food, not fuel. But the fuel required to operate farm equipment is diesel fuel, increasingly refined from food grown on America’s great plains. Digging into this reveals a rabbit hole of such depth...

Vessel Traffic Service in California

October 9, 2025 2:30 amOctober 9, 2025 2:31 am

Division 3, Chapter 1, Article 4 of California’s Harbors and Navigation Code deals with vessel traffic service. Section 445 provides for the Marine Exchange of Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor, Inc. It may operate a vessel traffic service, in cooperation with,...

A Better Approach to Contingent Enactment Language

October 8, 2025 2:42 pmOctober 8, 2025 2:42 pm

“Contingent enactment” amendments in the California Legislature are used to connect a bill to another action in order for that bill to become operative. There are several reasons for contingent enactment language, such as upon a budget appropriation, a federal...

Katie Porter’s Media Meltdown Illuminates California’s One Party Problem

October 8, 2025 1:40 pmOctober 8, 2025 2:21 pm

Former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) had a very public media meltdown this week, giving all of America a peek into what’s wrong with California’s Democrat Supermajority and one party rule. Porter’s interview with CBS News investigative reporter Julie Watts went...

Female Athletes who Sued Riverside Unified Scored Big Title IX Victory

October 8, 2025 9:00 amOctober 8, 2025 9:01 am

Female athletes who sued the Riverside Unified School District over the boy given special preferences to play on their girls team scored a big victory last week when a federal judge ruled that their lawsuit for Title IX violations can...