The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved new regulations and voted to ban the sale of diesel big rig trucks by 2036 and require all trucks to be zero-emissions by 2042, the company announced Friday. The Advanced Clean Fleets rule is added to a list of California’s zero-emissions regulations in an effort to become more environmentally friendly…
California Approves Rule Banning Diesel Trucks by 2036
April 29, 2023
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California Bill to Ban School Boards From Abruptly Firing Administrators Advances
April 29, 2023
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California state senators advanced a bill last week that aims to discourage newly-elected school board majorities from terminating their head administrators—after two Southern California school boards recently opted to fire superintendents just weeks after they took office. State Senate Bill 494 would require board members to wait a minimum of 30 days after they are…
San Francisco Takes Step Toward Rescinding 12X State Travel and Contracts Ban
SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7–4 on April 25 to rescind the 12X State Travel Ban. The ban is a city administrative code that prohibits city-funded employee travel to 30 listed states and forbids city contracts involving those states. It serves as a boycott of states considered to be restrictive of abortion,…
University of California–Irvine to Construct Nation’s First All-Electric Hospital by 2025
April 28, 2023
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The University of California–Irvine is set to finish construction on a new health center—fully electric and solar-powered with diesel fuel generator backups—by 2025. It will be the first all-electric hospital in the country. “UCI Health is building the next chapter of healthcare in Orange County,” UCI Health CEO Chad. T. Lefteris said in a 2021…
Surfers Hall of Fame to Add 3 Icons to Its Ranks in Huntington Beach
April 28, 2023
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Just across from the Huntington Beach Pier several people walked April 27 over the hand and feet pressings of surfing legends. As part of the city’s “Surfers Hall of Fame,” the impressions have grown from their initial location in 1997 at the entryway to Huntington Beach Surf and Sport shop and now reach…
San Clemente City Councilman Resigns, Moves to Wyoming
April 28, 2023
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San Clemente City Councilman Gene James announced his resignation from the council in an April 26 farewell letter. His last day was April 28. James, whose term was set to expire next November, said in the letter he plans to sell his home on Avenida Del Verdor in San Clemente and move to Wyoming where…
California Bill Targets Faith-Based Foster Parents Over ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ Opponents Say
April 28, 2023
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Opponents of a bill that would require all foster parents in California to “affirm” the chosen gender identities of children in their care have called the proposed legislation an attack on constitutionally protected religious freedom and parental rights. State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced the proposed legislation, Senate Bill (SB) 407, told the…
Business Fails When Distracted
April 28, 2023
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One of the most famous articles in economics, written by Milton Friedman and published in The New York Times, states: “The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned ‘merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ‘social’ ends; that business has a ‘social conscience’ and takes…
New California Gold Rush Coming as Record Snowpack Melts
April 28, 2023
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Gold isn’t raining from the sky in the Golden State, but it might be flooding into the rivers by summer. “Nugget Nick” Prebalick expects the record snowpack in northern California to deposit even more gold in Woods Creek in Tuolumne County, where he shares a claim with his father and son near Jamestown. The family has…
Superhero Nonprofit Travels the Country to Bring Cheer to Those in Need
April 28, 2023
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After his mother’s death in 2009, one Long Beach, California-based juvenile probation officer channeled his sadness to create a charity spreading cheer and art to those suffering throughout the country, a mission which has now gained him national recognition. Yuri Williams, founder of the nonprofit “A Future Superhero and Friends,” will be honored for his…
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