Category: News

California lost over 180,000 people over the last year, with many people blaming the cost of living as the root cause of the exodus. However, my guest David Crane has different viewpoints. He is a lecturer in Public Policy at Stanford University and president of Govern for California. He discusses the underlying reasons for the exodus and …

Read more “Video: How Special Interest Groups Are Shaping California’s Policies | David Crane”

Elected commissioners in two Nevada counties declared that the Bill of Rights will be upheld in their jurisdictions, even if it means standing against unconstitutional acts by state and federal authorities. According to a resolution approved in Elko County on June 2, abuse of the constitutionally protected rights of citizens in Elko and Lander counties …

Read more “2 Nevada Counties Go ‘Constitutional’”

“Are we having a dry year? Yes,” Diener says. “That is normal for us. Should we be having water shortages in the start of our second dry year? No. Our reservoirs were designed to provide a steady five year supply for all users, and were filled to the top in June 2019.” Don’t believe her? …

Read more “California State Water Board is Manufacturing a Drought by Draining Reservoirs into the Ocean”

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 contracts, Craft said. “It’s money …

Read more “Caltrans investigations find waste and wrongdoing in state transportation programs”

Imagine that in next year’s presidential race, election officials scrambled the letters in Donald Trump so it appeared on ballots as Daldon Prumt. Most people would agree this is not acceptable. Voters need their ballots to accurately convey who it is they are voting for or against. Click here to read the article in the …

Read more “Opinion: California’s Attorneys General Are Rigging Ballot Measure Descriptions”

With a stroke of his pen, California Governor Gavin Newsom has redirected part of the money you pay at the pump with the state’s gas tax to the railway system and other projects. Governor Newsom signed Executive Order N-19-19. It calls for leveraging billion in annual state transportation funds to reduce green house gases and emissions. …

Read more “CBS47 Investigation: Gov. Newsom redirects gas tax money to fund railway systems, not highways”

The L.A. Department of Water and Power, infamous for a 2013 billing scandal and other shenanigans, got raided Monday by FBI agents who marched in and carted away records in a corruption probe that also brought raids at other city offices. At the DWP building, nine agents went to one floor alone, and at the end of …

Read more “Column: FBI raids show that at L.A. City Hall, incompetence and corruption are close cousins”

The top consultant on the California bullet train has been put on suspension after a state watchdog agency began reviewing his approval of a multimillion-dollar contract for a company in which he had heavily invested, The Times has learned. Click here to read the full article in the Los Angeles Times.