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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...

Rico Oller: Passing Of A Third Conservative Lion This Past Few Weeks

September 15, 2025 6:19 pmSeptember 15, 2025 6:22 pm

Former California State Senator Rico Oller unexpectedly passed away Friday at his old house in San Andreas. He was 66. Oller served in the California State Assembly from 1996-2000 before serving in the California State Senate from 2000-2004 were he...

SoCal High School Principal Orders Hold on LGBTQ+ Centered Lessons

August 23, 2025 2:55 amAugust 23, 2025 2:56 am

A leaked staff-wide email from a Desert Sands Unified School District (DSUSD) High School Principal seems like a stunning admission that LGBTQ+ centered lessons are being administered at his school and an assurance that the district’s lawyers would find a...

One Year After Fatal Mountain Lion Attack, Partisan Democrats Inflict More Harm on Brooks Family

April 22, 2025 3:24 pmApril 23, 2025 3:56 pm

UPDATE BELOW: Partisan politics was on full display at the California State Capitol Tuesday, with Democrats using their supermajority to kill an important Republican bill, just because they can. A tragic mountain lion attack in 2024, which killed one El...

OPINION: Fighting Fire With Fire – The Demise of Prometheus

August 19, 2024 2:45 amAugust 19, 2024 2:46 am

As the wildfire crisis in the American West reaches a tipping point, it’s time for a candid conversation about the role of federal agencies in managing forests and fighting this plague of devastating fires. LAKE TAHOE, NV. As the American...

New USDA Report Shows Lake Tahoe Will Be Full This Year, Highlighting California’s Water Recovery

May 13, 2024 2:18 pmMay 13, 2024 2:20 pm

According to a new report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Lake Tahoe, situated on the California-Nevada border, will reach it’s “full” level for the first time since 2019, provided further evidence of California’s water recovery. For the...

California Reaches 113% Snowpack Level On Critical April 1st Measurment

April 2, 2024 7:07 pmApril 2, 2024 7:07 pm

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced that the April 1st snow survey at Phillips Station, widely regarded as the most crucial snow measuring day of the year as it records peak snowpack, was at 113% of average snowpack...