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Sacramento City Unified Financial Crisis Is No Surprise

January 10, 2019 1:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

Sacramento City Unified School District recently announced it could run out of money by the end of 2019. Its statement warned it “would not have enough cash to cover employee payroll, payments to vendors and others.” I’m not surprised. It...

DMV Enables Massive Voter Fraud in the Golden State

January 9, 2019 6:00 pmJanuary 9, 2019 7:14 pm

“California officials still can’t say whether non-citizens voted in the June 2018 primary,” Bryan Anderson wrote in the January 4, 2019, Sacramento Bee, “because a confusing government questionnaire about eligibility was created in a way that prevents a direct answer...

Trump Threatens to Pull FEMA Funds from California

January 9, 2019 2:17 pmJanuary 11, 2019 8:21 am

President Donald J. Trump threatened to withhold emergency FEMA funding for wildfire relief if California can’t get its act together and start doing proper forest management. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that,...

Assemblyman Wants California DMV To Be as Efficient as Amazon

January 3, 2019 8:15 amJanuary 4, 2019 3:25 pm

In California, the birthplace of the high-tech industry, lawmakers want to know why the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles can’t manage to put a reliable computer system in place. Assemblyman Jim Patterson (R-Fresno) called for an audit of California’s Department...

California Rings in the New Year With 1,016 New Laws

December 31, 2018 12:42 pmJanuary 4, 2019 3:24 pm

Of the 1,217 bills that reached California Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk in 2018, he signed 1,016 new laws and vetoed 201 – a record-high for Brown’s last two terms in office. Of the new laws going into effect in California...

As Several Gun Laws Go into Effect, Newsom Calls for More

December 20, 2018 1:04 pmDecember 20, 2018 1:34 pm

As Sacramento’s 2019 legislative calendar is set to kick off in just over two weeks, a plethora of new gun laws will being going into effect while Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom insists “we have to do more.” Stemming from a major...

Senate President Toni Atkins calls for more Humanitarian Action at Southern Border

December 18, 2018 4:37 pmDecember 18, 2018 4:58 pm

In an effort to increase a “coordinated action to address the humanitarian crisis at the San Diego-Tijuana border,” today Senate President pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) has called on several officials in Tijuana and San Diego to help find...