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Federal Gun Charges for Illegal Triple Manslaughter Suspect Ismael Huazo-Jardinez

June 14, 2019 6:36 amJune 14, 2019 6:40 am

Ismael Huazo-Jardinez, the previously deported illegal Mexican immigrant charged with vehicular manslaughter for a May 4 felony DUI crash in Knight’s Landing, now faces two counts of “alien in possession of a firearm while unlawfully in the United States,” according...

Legislative Statutes and Cases Interpreting Them

June 14, 2019 6:23 amJune 14, 2019 6:29 am

The California Government Code provides for aspects of the Legislature and the lawmaking process in this case. There have been many court decisions over the past one hundred years interpreting key provisions of the Government Code. The following cases highlight...

Largest Budget in CA History ‘Falls Short’: $2 billion in New Tax Increases and Lots of Pork

June 13, 2019 5:47 pmJune 14, 2019 1:41 pm

Thursday, the California State Legislature passed the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget along party lines. At $215 billion, it is the largest budget in the history of the state due to new tax increases and hundreds of millions of last minute...

California Legislation to Limit Predatory Lending Excludes Three Lenders

June 13, 2019 12:10 pmJune 13, 2019 10:10 am

Assembly Bill 539 by Assemblywoman Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) establishes an interest rate cap of 36 percent plus the federal funds rate for California Financing Law (CFL) licensee-provided consumer loans with principal amounts between $2,500 and $10,000. This bill also...

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...

California Bill to Ban Fur Sponsored by Animal Activists

June 13, 2019 2:07 amJune 13, 2019 9:56 am

A California lawmaker has a bill to ban fur products and clothing in the state, despite the many diverse climates within the 164,000 square miles of California. San Diego to Siskiyou, Death Valley to Bodie State Park (near Bridgeport, Mono...

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...