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Gov. Newsom’s ‘Conformity’ Tax Proposal Cherry-Picking Changes to Federal Law

June 20, 2019 2:05 amJune 20, 2019 8:32 am

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed state budget contains more than $2 billion in new state taxes, even with $21 billion state surplus. Newsom proposed adopting some of the Trump federal tax code changes – and limiting deductions for business losses,...

Record Health and Human Services Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 17, 2019 2:06 amJune 18, 2019 7:03 am

California’s largest state budget ever — $215 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. “Pork barrel” is a...

Streets of San Francisco

June 15, 2019 6:42 amJune 18, 2019 8:20 am

On the streets of San Francisco, human excrement is piling up to an all-time high, with 28,084 turd alerts in 2018, five times beyond the level in 2011, and 6,676 sightings by April 2019. If this reeking mess leaves tourists...

Record Resources and Transportation Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 14, 2019 1:40 pmJune 17, 2019 6:14 am

California’s largest state budget ever — $215 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Record Education Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 13, 2019 5:03 amJune 13, 2019 5:48 pm

California’s largest state budget ever — $214 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Record Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget in Many Years

June 12, 2019 10:35 amJune 13, 2019 6:32 am

Pork Barrel projects are a usual occurrence in the state budget, but California hasn’t see pork added on like this in years. To understand how government spending sprees occur every fiscal year, this is how spending takes place. Pork barrel...

California Health Care Giveaway

May 28, 2019 6:50 amMay 28, 2019 7:01 am

Since returning from El Salvador in April, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has advanced a plan to spend $98 million on health care for illegal immigrants ages 19-26 through the state’s Medi-Cal program. Democrats in the Assembly want to spend $3.4...