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Audit: Calif. bureaucrats don’t move fast enough to clean up water for Valley towns
Nearly 1 million Californians receive unsafe drinking water from their taps – most of it in the Central Valley – and state officials aren't acting fast enough.
July 27, 2022
Truckers hate AB5. Now, they’ve shut down a Calif. port to protest it.
The controversial California labor is crushing small, independent trucking companies. Now, truckers are bringing a stop to port operations in northern California.
July 21, 2022
Patterson calls for state audit into Bonta’s CCW data breach
“I don’t trust them,” Asm. Jim Patterson said of Attorney General Rob Bonta and California's Department of Justice. “And that’s why I think we have to have an audit.”
July 19, 2022
Calif. set aside $115mil for free college textbooks. This top bureaucrat is holding it up.
More than a year after California lawmakers OK'd the nine-figure sum for textbooks, it remains unspent.
July 18, 2022
CSU, UC begin to fast-track supplying abortion pills to campuses
A state law passed in 2019 sought to bring medicated abortions to public colleges. In the wake of the Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortions, implementation is in overdrive.
July 17, 2022
Ex-Calif. Rep. Katie Hill files for bankruptcy after failed revenge porn suit
The one-time Democratic star was ousted from Congress after engaging in a sexual relationship with one of her staffers. Now, she's declaring bankruptcy.
July 13, 2022
Sacramento lobbyist alleges Valley lawmaker engaged in multiple extramarital affairs
A late-night storm of tweets from a lobbyist for the powerful California Medical Association alleged that a Valley lawmaker was engaged in multiple extramarital affairs.
July 12, 2022
S.F. mayor taps top campaigner to recall Boudin as next District Attorney
Brooke Jenkins was a former prosecutor working for ousted San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, then she became a major campaigner for his ouster.
July 7, 2022
Newsom, legislators agree to $4.2bil deal to finish Valley portion of bullet train
The sharpening knives of Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) aren't going to slice and dice the bullet train project now.
June 30, 2022
Gas tax hike, later school start times among new Calif. mandates taking effect in July
Two new California laws are taking effect in a few days when the calendar turns to July, along with a hefty, 3-cent gas tax increase at the pumps.
June 29, 2022