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Aggie Square Project to Deny Prevailing Wage Opportunities to Sacramentans

April 5, 2021 12:32 pmApril 5, 2021 2:15 pm

Aggie Square is a $1.1 billion proposed project located at Stockton Boulevard and Second Avenue in Sacramento, mostly on property owned by UC Davis. It is a public-private partnership between University of California, Davis, Wexford Science and Technology and the City of...

Sen. Scott Wiener: Open Bay Area Safe Drug Use Sites, and High-Density Housing

December 9, 2020 3:35 pmDecember 10, 2020 5:57 pm

From the “you can’t make this stuff up” file, Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) wants to allow San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to open “safe-drug-use” sites – at a time when the entire state state is in lockdown –...

Dear Harmeet Dhillon: THIS Recall Gavin Campaign Has Over 800,000 Signed Petitions

November 24, 2020 2:20 pmDecember 2, 2020 9:09 am

Harmeet Dhillon doesn’t need national publicity. She’s frequently invited onto the national stage by conservative television hosts. By the time you’ve been on television as many times as Harmeet Dhillon has, you’re not appearing for the thrill of the experience,...

Recall Campaign Gets Powerful New Ally

November 19, 2020 11:55 amNovember 19, 2020 12:18 pm

The Recall Gavin 2020 campaign, which took on new life when a judge granted them a 120 day extension, till March 17, 2021, has just acquired the support of a new committee, Rescue California. Headed up by former California GOP Chairman Tom Del...

2020 General Election Preview: 8th Assembly District

October 23, 2020 6:50 amOctober 25, 2020 1:48 pm

Located completely in Sacramento County, the 8th Assembly district encompasses the eastern suburbs of Sacramento. Most of the suburbs here are on the middle to upper-middle set, meaning it attracts all sorts of people there, including an almost equal amount...

2020 General Election Preview: San Diego Mayoral

October 9, 2020 6:44 amOctober 12, 2020 11:15 am

San Diego: For the longest time, “America’s Finest City” was as reliably Republican as Orange County or any inland Northern California county above the Bay. But the city began trickling in Democrats a few decades ago, culminating with the city...

FPPC Probing Weinstein’s AIDS Health Foundation for Campaign Finance Violations

July 17, 2020 3:53 pmJuly 17, 2020 3:53 pm

The California Fair Political Practices Commission, the state’s campaign finance watchdog is moving forward with an investigation of drug company executive Michael Weinstein’s AIDS Health Foundation on a complaint by California YIMBY for allegedly failing to report tens of thousands of...