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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...

UC Regents Bans Employees From Posting Political Views On Department Website

July 20, 2024 8:08 amJuly 20, 2024 8:08 am

The University of California Board of Regents approved a ban on University employees from putting political views on the front of University website homepages, with the Board saying they wanted to avoid any personal views being seen as official positions...

Three More California House Democrats Call On Biden To Exit Race

July 19, 2024 10:35 pmJuly 19, 2024 10:35 pm

Three more Democratic Congressional members – Jim Costa (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and Jared Huffman (D-CA) – made announcements on Friday, saying that they are calling on President Joe Biden to step aside and not run in the 2024 election....

Saks Fifth Avenue In San Francisco’s Union Square Switches To “Appointment Only” Shopping

July 19, 2024 12:31 pmJuly 19, 2024 12:31 pm

According to a company e-mail this week, the Saks Fifth Avenue in San Francisco’s Union Square will be switching to an “appointment only” model next month, effectively barring customers from coming into the store and browsing at any time. Both...