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More Californians Blame Gas Tax Than ‘Price Gouging’ For Highest Gas Prices

July 23, 2024 8:56 pmJuly 24, 2024 9:13 pm

According to a newly released Slingshot California Topline poll, nearly half of all Californians blame the state’s gas tax for why California’s gasoline prices are so high, with only around a third saying that price gouging is to blame. While...

Malibu Should Make it Easier for Residents to Build More Housing on Their Property

July 23, 2024 2:12 pmJuly 23, 2024 2:12 pm

It shouldn’t take four years of headaches, legal briefs, and hard-fought battles just to get a permit to build a small addition on your property. But that’s exactly what happened to my family when we applied to build a modest...

Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Announces Another Run for California Governor

July 23, 2024 12:55 pmJuly 23, 2024 12:55 pm

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday that he would be officially running for Governor in 2026. A graduate of UCLA and the People’s College of Law, Villaraigosa was early on a leader of MEChA, a Chicano political...

SF Mayor Breed And Homelessness: What Her Crackdown On Encampments Will Look Like

July 23, 2024 12:24 pmJuly 23, 2024 12:24 pm

In a Mayoral election debate last week, San Francisco Mayor London Breed vowed to combat homelessness in the city soon. Specifically, she noted that she will be targeting homeless encampments beginning in August. “The problem is not going to be...

Solano County Supervisor Announces California Forever Project Pulled From 2024 Ballot

July 22, 2024 6:08 pmJuly 23, 2024 6:30 am

Solano County Supervisor Mitch Mashburn announced on Monday that the controversial venture capitalist-backed California Forever development plan, which would create a green city for up to 400,000 people in the majority rural county, was effectively removed from the 2024 November...

VP Kamala Harris’s Real California Record in the ‘War Against Donald Trump’

July 22, 2024 7:59 amJuly 23, 2024 6:30 am

In 2017, James Lacy and I wrote California’s War Against Donald Trump: Who Wins? Who Loses? We featured “the players” in California as well as the myriad very serious issues. Yet with all its problems, California’s liberal leaders have decided...

Gascon aide Diana Teran: Who’s Paying Who and For What?

July 20, 2024 10:47 amJuly 20, 2024 10:47 am

Questions are swirling around the current status of alleged felon and top Los Angeles County District George Gascon aide Diana Teran, including whether or not her legal defense is being paid for by the taxpayer. In the past month, the...