Category: News

Another California law has been ruled unconstitutional. With AB 32, Newsom and the Legislature tried to force ICE to close its detention facilities. Today the 9th Circuit held this violates the Supremacy Clause. Next year, Newsom and the legislators who passed this law will face voters. Perhaps more importantly, several transformative initiatives...

On January 5, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 11 was introduced by Assembly Members Ash Kalra and Alex Lee proposing to enact significant tax increases to fund universal single-payer health care coverage and cost controls. Co-authors include Assembly Members Mia Bonta, Wendy Carrillo, Laura Friedman, Adrin Nazarian, and Miguel Santiago, as well...

The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday to impose the proposal of its final Dec. 8, 2020, position in negotiations with the Placer County Deputy Sheriff’s Association (DSA). The DSA filed an amended charge against Placer on Feb. 24 after receiving notice from the county of the...

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a 2020-21 state budget he described as “balanced, responsible and protects public safety and health, education, and services to Californians facing the greatest hardships.” Whatever its other virtues may be, the budget is far from “balanced,” at least as most folks outside the Capitol would define...

Californians struggling to scrape by know all too well the challenge of deciding which bills to pay now and which will have to be paid later. Unexpected problems like an illness causing them to miss work can mean falling even further behind. Progressive policymakers have put limits on many types...

Craft’s office separately received 256 complaints of misconduct by state and local transportation workers in the last year and substantiated wrongdoing in 28 cases, including some involving misuse of state resources and falsification of documents. Most of the $7.4 million in questioned bond funds was not allowed by the state’s...

It was heralded by then-Gov. Jerry Brown as a way to simplify K-12 education spending and close the state’s achievement gap by giving more money to districts that disproportionately serve needy kids. Since then, state spending on schools has increased about 50%. But, as state Auditor Elaine Howle explained in...

Operating costs in Dallas are significantly less versus San Francisco. The tax and regulatory climate in Dallas is much more business friendly versus San Francisco. This also puts a microscope on some of the qualitative issues facing the Bay Area. For example, out-of-control housing costs. Click here to read the article...

California Gov. Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown Jr. proposed a revised state budget Thursday that would double the state’s contribution to CalPERS to $11.8 billion from $5.8 billion for the fiscal year starting July 1. The supplemental money from the state’s $50 billion surplus investment fund would reduce CalPERS’ unfunded liabilities...

Brian Medeiros sat in the office of his Hanford dairy Tuesday and let out a long sigh. On the desk was a pile of paperwork that had to be sorted through, the visual evidence of what it takes to wrap up the Medeiros and Son dairy after 27 years in...