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Algorithms Cure Gerrymanders, But Politics Remains

October 20, 2022 7:14 amOctober 21, 2022 11:49 am

With the midterm elections just a few weeks away, across California politicians have had to scramble more than usual to compete in redrawn districts. The new district boundaries were the product of the “2020 California Citizens Redistricting Commission,” which was...

Yuba County Fentanyl Plight: Small County, Big Crisis

October 20, 2022 2:45 amOctober 20, 2022 8:26 am

County officials across California are dealing with the Fentanyl overdose crisis, with the drug pouring into the United States at the Southern Border. The Globe just reported on the Fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, with the County Office of the...

Technical Changes Made to Existing Laws by the Legislative Counsel Bureau in 2021-22

October 19, 2022 3:05 pmOctober 20, 2022 7:37 am

In their ongoing efforts to clean-up California’s 29 Codes and modernize statutory language, the Office of Legislative Counsel makes technical changes to existing laws as it comes across statutes in need of these changes. Some are due to our state’s...

How to Draft a Spot Bill

October 19, 2022 9:58 amOctober 19, 2022 8:01 am

In the California Legislature, a “spot bill” is basically used as a placeholder for a future measure to be amended into the spot bill. Quite often, bills introduced in the California Legislature without substantive language in them are called “spot...

A California Bill of Only Repeals

October 19, 2022 6:32 amOctober 19, 2022 6:36 am

On occasion, in reading bills in the California Legislature, you find some unique measures. As readers know, a bill can add a new section of law, amend an existing section of law, repeal an existing section of law, or do...

UC Berkeley Bucks Mob Demands to Fire Music Teacher

October 17, 2022 4:00 pmOctober 17, 2022 4:26 pm

The University of California at Berkeley is bucking the demands of an online mob that a music teacher at the school be fired because of a sardonic post he wrote about another musician more than ten years ago. In a...

A Closer Look at Appropriations Bills in the California Legislature

October 17, 2022 3:05 pmOctober 17, 2022 3:22 pm

In California, the main appropriations measure is the annual state budget bill. Article IV, Section 12(d) of the state Constitution provides that the budget bill is the main measure that may contain more than one item of appropriation. In addition,...