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All of the Harris/Biden unlawful giveaways must be immediately canceled and clawed back. Yes, this means all of the college loan "forgiveness" (which is no such thing, it is forcing you to pay someone else's debt.) I have a solution to this that the colleges will not like but again this is an outline posting; the details will follow in other entries. All Executive Orders are subject to this risk; none create a due process right and thus there's nothing to sue about.

“The settlement will resolve allegations that the company failed to appropriately oversee the dispensing of opioids at its pharmacies,” Bonta’s office said in a news release. Payments on the $122 million will begin arriving early in 2025 and will be used for opioid abatement, the release added. In addition, Kroger pharmacies will be required to “monitor, report, and share data about suspicious activity related to opioid prescriptions.”

Since September 2022 – while Newsom had the state on full lockdown – California has lost a net 154,000 jobs in the private sector and gained 361,000 jobs in the public sector, according to California’s non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.

“She’s thinking with her heart and not her brain,” said aviation manufacturing consultant Gerald Adler to the Globe on Monday. “Unleaded fuel was approved for piston-engine planes in 2022, but the problem is that a lot of engines are not rated for unleaded fuels. Could they run on it? Yes. But the problem comes with testing. Not all have been tested with it properly and still need leaded av gas. And there is no way that testing of all relevant engines can be done by 2031. More time is needed. Whoever came up with this bill just doesn’t realize the...

None of this, however, is stopping Governor Gavin Newsom, who has dragged a handful of legislators back to the Capitol for a special session on alleged price gouging by California’s oil refineries. In a press release on September 3, the governor claimed that “Gas price spikes on consumers are profit spikes for oil companies, and they’re overwhelmingly caused by refiners not backfilling supplies when they go down for maintenance.” To prevent these alleged misdeeds, the governor proposes to require California’s refineries to stockpile reserves of gasoline to meet demand whenever refineries are not operating. In addition to mandatory storage, the...

The task force responsible for seizing the fentanyl has focused on points of entry along the southern border. Newsom doubled down on the program in June, increasing the California National Guard Deployment by 152% at the San Ysidro, Otay Mesa, Tecate, and Calexico Ports of Entry.

Linda Lynch, a KTLA viewer in the Antelope Valley, was shocked to see that her electric bill skyrocketed to $900 this month, hundreds MORE than usual. Linda writes that she can barely afford food, never mind electricity. We should point out that the Antelope Valley in Southern California saw excessive heat warnings issued for stretches of days this month. The warnings are issued when heat is forecast to be extreme and often come with an advisory to keep cool and only go out if necessary. And Linda wasn’t the ONLY one who emailed. Carla Chang writes, “Hello! Please look into...

I am not excusing the poor behavior of these students or their parents who are too tired, oblivious, or proud to correct it. I am not blaming educators who were doomed to fail by a system so convoluted it sabotages its own purpose. What I am calling for in the clearest possible words is this: raze the Department of Education and build a public education system worthy of American exceptionalism.

The real responsibility for California’s high insurance premiums lies in state politicians’ and the governor’s policy decisions. Most insurers say because of California’s high cost to rebuild, they can’t keep premiums artificially low any longer. And why are California’s rebuilding and building costs so high? The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): As Ed Ring reported for the Globe, over 50+ years, “CEQA has acquired layers of legislative updates and precedent setting court rulings, warping it into a beast that denies clarity to developers and derails projects. When projects do make it through the CEQA gauntlet, the price of passage adds...

. In Los Angeles, a median-income household would need a nearly impossible 81.1% down payment ($780,203) to afford the typical home, highest in the country. In San Jose, the down payment needed is more than $1.3 million (80.9%) — that’s more than the typical home is worth in every other major market. Outside of California, median-income households would need to put more than 60% down in the New York City metro area (75.3%), Miami (64.5%), Boston (61.7%) and Seattle (61.3%).

So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, "Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department," a reference to Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department."

By the end of the year, homelessness was up exponentially, with Inside Safe, her signature program to combat homelessness, only moving 255 people to permanent housing so far out of the 46,000 in LA, despite $67 million already going into the program.

On Tuesday a 2-1 Democrat majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated a good West Virginia law protecting girls’ sports against invasion by male-bodied transgender students. The Richmond-based tribunal held that West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act violates the federal Title IX law, which was enacted to protect girls’ sports, and also that West Virginia’s protection of girls’ sports may further violate the Constitution. The Biden-appointed judge who wrote this absurd decision repeatedly used the propaganda term “sex assigned at birth,” as if sex were arbitrary and merely “assigned” to a newborn. On the contrary,...

(The Center Square) - California housing permitting collapsed 45% from 135,565 homes in 2022 to just 74,720 in 2023, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s data at time of the story’s publication. Housing experts say rising interest rates are largely to blame for the phenomenon as rising construction costs and interest payments make fewer projects pencil out for developers.

“California suffers largest job-growth drop in US – 54% cut in job creation between 2015-19 and 2019-23.” “California’s job-creation shortfall ranks as the largest among the states, as the Golden State fell from No. 1 for new jobs in 2015-19 to No. 3 in 2019-23,” the Orange County Register reported. It was in state government jobs that were created – not private sector jobs. The OCR presented the receipts: “Look at the chill in the state’s largest job markets … Los Angeles County: 195,500 slower job growth – 79,000 hires in 2019-23 vs. 274,500 added staff for 2015-19. That’s a...

Shocking body camera footage showed at least eight officers dressed in tactical gear and carrying automatic rifles jumping out of an armored vehicle and approaching Johnson, who was just wearing a black bathrobe and a bonnet, the following day. They then proceeded to use a battering ram to get into Johnson’s garage even though she explained to them how to open the door, and broke ceiling tiles to get into her attic — standing on top of one of her brand-new dining room chairs, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed in December 2022.

If 10 million cubic yards of sediment were to settle in the river, we’d see the equivalent of six lanes of freeway piled eight feet deep for nearly 100 miles. There are 192 river miles below the lowest dam, Iron Gate. In total, the river is approximately 250 miles long. For most of February, turbidity levels in the Klamath River hovered around 500 to 1,000 units over a stretch of at least 100 miles, according to U.S. Geological Survey measurements.2 These turbidity levels are 10 to 20 times what juvenile salmon can survive, according to a 2001 research report by...

Big Fani came in like a wrecking ball and destroyed a marriage, then went on to not just lie about it but completely twist the timeline—which, by the way, is very important to this story. She brought her married beau on board, a DEI-type hire who had zero business handling the tasks he was given, and threw a ridiculous amount of money his way. Money that, surprise surprise, she ended up spending on herself. And the cherry on top of this crooked sundae? Their secret rendezvous took place in a “safe house” funded by Georgia’s taxpayers. After stirring up all...

The vendors typically set up stalls in the parking lot of Two Guys Plaza in the El Salvador Corridor on Vermont Avenue, a bustling area filled with markets, businesses and street food vendors. However, the plaza’s owner shut down for business after being found in violation of zoning laws, leading to the eviction of around 30 vendors.

Beverly Hills is supposed to plan for more than 3,100 new homes, most of them affordable, but because the state has denied the feasibility of the city’s plans, “Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin blocked the city from issuing all building permits except for new residential development,” the Los Angeles Times reports.