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Utility Chiefs Grilled by California Senators Over Power Shut Downs

November 19, 2019 6:45 amNovember 20, 2019 6:07 am

The CEO’s and COO’s of the California’s largest utilities came together Monday in a hearing by the California Senate Energy and Utilities Committee over the shutting off of power for millions of people in an attempt to prevent wildfires during...

California To Sue The EPA Over Emission Standards And Will Stop Buying Gas Vehicles

November 18, 2019 8:00 pmNovember 19, 2019 11:59 am

The state of California has made several far reaching decisions about car standards since late last week by simultaneously going completely green on state-owned vehicles while also suing the EPA over taking away their car emission rules. On Monday the...

More Cities in California Are Banning The Use Of Natural Gas

November 18, 2019 3:42 pmNovember 20, 2019 7:51 am

“It’s clear that the bulk of Californians want their natural gas appliances.” The Sierra Club reported last week that more than 50 cities across the state are considering or have passed policies that will over time, eliminate the use of...

Governor Newsom Pardons Three Criminals To Block Their Deportation

November 18, 2019 2:22 pmNovember 25, 2019 10:28 am

Three formerly imprisoned criminals from Cambodia and Vietnam were pardoned by Governor Newsom late last week to stop them from being deported back. The pardons were Governor Newsom’s latest actions over immigration and deportation issues in California. Since Newsom took...

General Versus Special Statutes

November 18, 2019 6:08 amNovember 17, 2019 4:41 pm

Most Capitol observers do not often come across bills that delineate between general or special statutes. What is a general statute versus a special statute? A general statute is essentially a law that pertains uniformly to an entire community or all persons...

Parents In Southern California Demand School Board Declare District a Sanctuary Community For Parental Rights

November 18, 2019 2:15 amNovember 19, 2019 12:05 pm

“If there is risk to vaccines, then there must a choice.” Hundreds of residents in a Southern California community swarmed a school board meeting Thursday night to speak out about the loss of parental rights in schools. Anxious parents,...

Newsom and the Nineties

November 16, 2019 2:42 amNovember 18, 2019 8:10 am

“America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently told Politico. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that....