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Data Forecasts Drastic Job Losses from San Diego $25 Wage

September 19, 2025 12:00 pmSeptember 19, 2025 12:10 pm

Earlier this week, the San Diego City Council voted to raise the minimum wage for hospitality workers to $25 an hour. “What was initially intended as an immediate infusion of higher wages for all workers in San Diego’s tourism industry last...

Downey City Councilman Censured Over Kirk Post, ‘No One Mourns The Wicked’

September 18, 2025 5:10 pmSeptember 18, 2025 5:10 pm

Downey City Councilman Mario Trujillo created a political firestorm after he posted on Instagram “No one mourns the wicked” after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley College on Wednesday, September 10th. The following day, Trujillo tried...

California Farmers are Being Left Out to Dry

September 18, 2025 7:00 amSeptember 23, 2025 9:16 am

By Tate Bennett and Mike Garcia California’s water wars have always been contentious, but what is happening in Potter Valley right now is an assault on common sense and a direct threat to rural families, food security, and wildfire protection....

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...

Sacramento Taxpayers are Victims of a Rapacious and Uncaring State Government

September 15, 2025 7:04 amSeptember 15, 2025 7:04 am

The Sacramento City Council should immediately assign the City Auditor to determine the actual annual state freeloading impact upon city taxpayers through the state’s tax exempt properties, both owned and leased. There has been much talk that all should...

Greenberg: San Francisco’s Contribution to Reckless Rhetoric

September 14, 2025 10:36 amSeptember 14, 2025 10:37 am

San Francisco’s reckless-mouthed political leaders Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Scott Wiener, David Chiu (and a gaggle of others) have long positioned themselves as the moral bulkhead, a wall against “right-wing extremism.” Yet, beneath this facade of virtue lies a troubling...

Greenberg: San Francisco’s Insanely High Per Capita Spending

September 10, 2025 2:55 amSeptember 10, 2025 2:56 am

It’s hard to believe but our new mayor, Daniel Lurie, who campaigned on accountability as a main talking point, is now proposing a tax, a parcel tax, to be put to the voters next year, to close the gap in...