The Trump administration finalized plans Thursday to open nearly 730,000 acres of public lands and mineral estate across California’s Central Coast and the San Francisco Bay Area to new oil and gas drilling. The move ends over five years of no oil and gas leases, after a 2013 legal challenge against proposed expansion of oil […]
Mystery Surcharge Among Taxes, Fees Added to Gasoline in California…
A University of California, Berkeley professor is drawing attention to a gasoline “mystery surcharge” in the state – unexplained price increases in gasoline which have cost drivers $20 billion since 2015. Severin Borenstein, professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and former chairman of the state’s Petroleum Market Advisory Committee, has spent several years […]
Mapping San Francisco’s Human Waste Challenge – 132,562 Cases Reported in the Public Way Since 2008…
By many measures, San Francisco is a world-class city. It’s a tourist mecca that boasts 25 million visitors each year. It’s home to wonders of the modern world – the Golden Gate Bridge and its iconic cable cars – as well as powerful progressive politicians, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom, and U.S. […]
California ‘House of Horrors’ Parents Sentenced to Life in Prison…
The California “house of horrors” parents who abused and tortured 12 of their 13 children were sentenced to life in prison Friday with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Some of the children of the couple spoke in a packed courtroom ahead of their parents’ sentencing. Judge Bernard Schwartz said the children were not […]
California AG: Illegal Immigration Should Be Decriminalized…
RoundUp Trial: Judge Allows Monsanto to Send Add Pop-Up Ads Targeting People Inside Courthouse…
A California judge cited the First Amendment in her refusal to bar Monsanto from sending geo-targeted mobile phone ads to jurors and other members of the public Thursday, the latest wrinkle in a trial on a San Francisco Bay Area couple’s claims that Roundup weed killer gave them cancer. Plaintiff attorney Steven Brady with the […]
Federal Court Strikes Down California Gun Magazine Ban
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on Friday afternoon struck down California’s ban on firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Judge Roger T. Benitez concluded in the case of Virginia Duncan, et. al. v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra that the restriction on magazine round capacity in the state […]
The Human Costs of Kamala Harris’ War on Truancy…
On the morning of April 18, 2013, in the Los Angeles suburb of Buena Park, a throng of photographers positioned themselves on a street curb and watched as two police officers entered a squat townhouse. Minutes later, their cameras began clicking. The officers had re-emerged with a weary-looking woman in pajamas and handcuffs, and the […]
Look Who’s Buying Up California’s Scarce Water…
Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop. Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks […]
California’s Plan to Finish 119 Miles of High-Speed Rail to Cost $89 Million Per Mile — Four Times More Than Trump’s Border Wall…
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to finish the 119-mile stretch of high-speed rail in the Central Valley is expected to cost $10.6 billion, according to official estimates — or $89 million per mile. Newsom said in a Tuesday press conference that finishing that stretch of line was about “economic transformation and unlocking the enormous […]
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