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California’s Fast Food Minimum Wage Continues to Bite Workers, Consumers and Owners

March 20, 2026 4:40 amMarch 20, 2026 4:41 am

California is reaching a grim two-year anniversary of the ill-advised $20 fast food minimum wage. AB 1228, California’s $20 wage law for fast food workers, cost non-tipped restaurant workers 250 hours of work annually, equating to up to 7 weeks...

Sale of Corporate Assets

March 20, 2026 2:30 amMarch 20, 2026 2:31 am

Chapter 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 deals with the sale of assets by corporations. Section 1000 provides that any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge or other hypothecation of all or any part of the corporation’s property, real or...

The Morning Routine That Just Vanished: Lunches Unpacked, Coffee Gone Cold and Kids With Nowhere to Go 

March 19, 2026 2:14 pmMarch 19, 2026 2:14 pm

Imagine waking up before dawn, packing lunches, brewing coffee, dropping your kids at school and then heading into your work day. Now you can focus on building your career and generating the income your family depends on, all because your kids are safe...

Aquaculture in California

March 19, 2026 2:00 pmMarch 19, 2026 2:01 pm

Fish and Game Code Division 12, Chapter 1 provides general provisions on aquaculture in this state. Section 15000 states that the business of aquaculture is governed by this division and is exempt from specified laws and any other provision of...

Sacramento’s Idea of a Transition

March 19, 2026 1:12 pmMarch 19, 2026 1:16 pm

In 1991, California had more than forty refineries. By the end of 2026, it will have fewer than eleven. Of those, only five are large enough to matter. Phillips 66 shuttered its 147,000-barrel-per-day Los Angeles refinery in December. Valero’s Benicia...

Ringside: The Many Benefits of Dredging the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

March 19, 2026 12:00 pmMarch 19, 2026 12:01 pm

The salmon decline in the delta has been attributed to the impact of water withdrawals into the California Aqueduct and the Delta Mendota Canal. But something else happened at the same time as the pumps were began operating; dredging in...

New Legislation to Get Males Out of Female-Only Spaces At Risk

March 19, 2026 8:00 amMarch 20, 2026 1:11 pm

Assembly Bill 1998 is new legislation designed to get males out of female-only spaces like bathrooms and lockerooms, and would amend the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination by businesses against individuals based on various characteristics, including race, sex,...