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Bill to Increase Child Sex Trafficking Punishments Passes Key Senate Committee Vote

July 8, 2025 5:49 pmJuly 8, 2025 5:49 pm

A bill that would increase punishments for purchasing a minor for sex and recriminalize the act of loitering with the intent to purchase sex passed the crucial Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday by a unanimous 6-0 vote, leaving AB 379...

High-Speed Rail’s Ian Choudri Confirms Plans For Private Investment to Bridge $10.2 Billion Funding Gap

July 8, 2025 1:48 pmJuly 8, 2025 1:48 pm

California High-Speed Rail has roughly 11 months to plug a funding gap of between $10.2 billion to $14.2 billion. Back in March, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office told lawmakers that CHSR needs $7 billion in funding by June 2026 or...

Los Angeles Faces Budget Cuts, Layoffs and Interest Borrowing Due to Extraordinary Lawsuit Payouts

July 8, 2025 11:43 amJuly 8, 2025 11:43 am

Los Angeles is facing a city budget deficit of just under $1 billion, due in large part to the extraordinary volume of liability claims stemming from lawsuits against the city. Los Angeles budgeted $100 million in 2025 for liability claims,...

California Department of Education Formally Rejects Title IX Transgender Athlete Resolution Agreement

July 7, 2025 6:15 pmJuly 7, 2025 9:21 pm

The California Department of Education rejected the U.S. Department of Education’s resolution agreement that would have forbidden schools from allowing males from participating in female sports and from occupying female intimate facilities on Monday, with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon...

Musician Tim Myers Announces Run For Lt. Governor In 2026

July 7, 2025 3:52 pmJuly 7, 2025 3:52 pm

In an announcement on Monday, musician and former OneRepublic bassist Tim Myers said that he would be running for Lt. Governor in 2026, with Myers also dropping out of the 41st District House race barely 2 months into his campaign....

Greenberg: Sen. Scott Wiener’s Shockingly Reckless Nazi Analogy

July 7, 2025 6:30 amJuly 11, 2025 6:36 am

We stand for principled debate and fairness in women’s sports, but a recent statement by San Francisco’s Senator Scott Wiener, a lightning-rod of an elected official in the State Legislature, who recently compared America’s efforts to regulate transgender participation in...

Celebrating America’s 249th Birthday in a Small Town

July 5, 2025 9:36 amJuly 5, 2025 9:36 am

As California Governor Gavin Newsom was probably sipping on a PlumpJack Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon and bashing the President for the One Big Beautiful Bill passage, as well as hard-timing him over fires which broke out of federal land in California,...