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First Amendment Group Lambasts SFSU Over Campus Mob Ambush of Riley Gaines

April 13, 2023 3:51 pmApril 15, 2023 7:54 am

First amendment advocacy group FIRE – the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression – demanded Tuesday that San Francisco State University officials answer whether or not they “in any way enabled or sustained” the recent campus mob ambush of Riley...

Julie Su Stoppers Turn Up the Pressure

April 13, 2023 6:17 amApril 13, 2023 11:44 am

The effort to make sure Julie Su does not become President Biden’s newest cabinet member is ramping up, with at least two opposition groups launching advertising campaigns this week. Su, the former chief of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency...

Gov. Newsom Brags that Rest of Country Wants His Gas Tax Scheme

April 12, 2023 8:40 amApril 13, 2023 11:44 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Gas Tax, as it is being called in many circles, creates a new panel of unelected bureaucrats with subpoena power, to investigate oil and gas companies, impose penalties, new costs and regulations, which would inevitably lead to...

Select Committee on CCP Chairman Gallagher Discusses Recent California Trip

April 12, 2023 2:45 amApril 12, 2023 6:27 am

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) traveled to California last week for several high-level meetings with industry leaders, including studio executives from Hollywood, tech industry leaders...

California Bill Will Release Death Sentenced Murderers After 20 Years

April 11, 2023 3:52 pmApril 13, 2023 3:12 pm

The California Senate Public Safety Committee voted on a bill Tuesday to give the state’s worst murderers, who have been sentenced to death or life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), the opportunity to have their sentences invalidated and make them...

‘Flagship’ San Francisco Whole Foods Closes Only One Year In; Cites High Crime, Rampant Drugs

April 11, 2023 1:49 pmApril 11, 2023 4:03 pm

One of the largest supermarkets remaining in San Francisco, the flagship Whole Foods on the corner of 8th and Market, shut down with little warning at the end of business on Monday after only a year in business, citing high...

Winning Purple: Here’s How

April 11, 2023 6:26 amApril 11, 2023 6:38 am

Republican victories aren’t easy to come by in California. Last November, my wife, Rep. Michelle Park Steel, overcame relentless attacks from swamp-funded special interests to win reelection in a new district that President Joe Biden carried by 7 points. Democrats...