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Could a ‘Penalty’ on Oil Companies Be Passed by a Majority Vote?

December 5, 2022 2:09 pmDecember 5, 2022 2:15 pm

There have been discussions the past two months regarding whether the California Legislature and Governor Newsom will impose an “excess profits” tax on oil companies in this state. When the Governor issued his proclamation to the Legislature to convene a...

Gavin Newsom: Governing by Political Consultant to Attain the Presidency

December 5, 2022 10:26 am

Multiple articles have been written to assure the country that California Gov. Gavin Newsom isn’t running against Joe Biden in the 2024 Presidential election. A more likely scenario is Newsom and his consultants are setting up an opportunity for the...

What Is the Difference Between California Senate Rules 28.8 and 28.9?

December 5, 2022 2:25 amDecember 4, 2022 8:29 pm

Two separate California State Senate Rules grant power to the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to dispense with hearing a fiscal-related bill and instead send that bill directly to the Floor of the State Senate. That power is set...

Newsom’s Homeless Policies Require Radical Revision

December 3, 2022 9:02 amDecember 3, 2022 9:16 am

California’s Homeless Industrial Complex was delivered a minor jolt last month, when Governor Gavin Newsom “issued a blanket rejection of local California governments’ plans to curb homelessness, putting on hold hundreds of millions of dollars in aid.” The panic was short-lived, however, when...

GLOBE EXCLUSIVE – EDD Has Paid Billions to Feds in Interest Alone

December 3, 2022 7:52 amDecember 3, 2022 8:14 am

Since 1990, California’s unemployment agency – the EDD – has paid the feds $1,793,665,930 in interest alone to help keep its doors open and claimants paid. That approximately $1.8 billion dollar figure does not include what the state currently owes in...

San Francisco Elections Director Could Lose His Job Because He is White

December 2, 2022 8:08 amDecember 2, 2022 8:15 am

The Merriam Webster online dictionary defines the word alliteration as: Alliteration (noun) uh-lit-uh–rey-shuhn: the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs). Called also head rhyme, initial rhyme. I gained an appreciation for writing from my...

California Administrative Law Publications

December 2, 2022 6:57 amDecember 2, 2022 7:00 am

Article 4 of Chapter 3.5 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the California Government Code sets forth the three administrative law publications in this state. Government Code Section 11344 requires the Office of Administrative Law (OAL)...