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San Diego City Council Eyes Sales Tax Increase to 8.75%

March 15, 2024 2:45 amMarch 15, 2024 2:46 am

Momentum is growing both for and against a proposed sales tax increase in San Diego by 1% from 7.75% to 8.75%. The San Diego City Council rules committee is due to make their decision on the proposal next week. Currently,...

Prop 1 Vote Remains Close: 91% Of The Vote In, Less Than 25,000 Difference

March 14, 2024 8:31 pmMarch 14, 2024 8:31 pm

Following the most recent vote tabulations by the California Secretary of State’s office on Wednesday evening, Proposition 1 remained at virtual deadlock, with the yes vote narrowly ahead of the no vote 3,371,988 to 3,348,945, or 50.17% to 49.83%. Proposition...

U.S. House 16th District Race Goes Down To The Wire – 60 Votes Between 2nd Place Candidates

March 14, 2024 12:25 pmMarch 14, 2024 12:25 pm

A large Secretary of State voting count update late on Wednesday pushed the U.S. House 16th District primary race to be the closest in the state, with Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell) and Santa Clara County Supervisor and former state Senator...

Californians Paying 140% More For Electricity than Other States

March 14, 2024 2:55 amMarch 15, 2024 11:50 am

Electricity in Taft, California costs 275% more than what electricity costs in Bullhead City, Arizona. While residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco may feel comfortably smug hundreds of miles away from the Kern County city, it is rare to...

The Greenberg Brief: San Francisco’s Political Alliances Are About To Implode

March 14, 2024 2:48 amMarch 15, 2024 6:49 am

Supporting your preferred mayoral candidate is quickly becoming that much more difficult, as San Francisco’s eyes turn towards November. Power players and enthusiastic community advocates are quick to divert or jump ship. Some even make strange bedfellows. Case in point:...

High School Personal Finance Course Ballot Measure Submits Nearly 900,000 Signatures

March 13, 2024 5:36 pmMarch 13, 2024 5:37 pm

A ballot measure proposal to make personal finance a required course for graduation from High School in California handed in nearly 900,000 signatures to country registrars on Tuesday, strongly poising the measure to be on the 2024 November ballot. Since...

Power Plays

March 13, 2024 5:23 pmMarch 13, 2024 5:23 pm

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair On Feb. 6, Pacific Gas and Electric dropped a bomb on residents of California’s North Coast: the company...