Category: Northern California

Mothers Hold Anti-Drug Rally in San Francisco

August 25, 2022
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Mothers Against Drug Deaths held a rally in San Francisco on Aug. 21, the first National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day. In front of City Hall, hand-painted rocks were placed on the front steps leading up to a podium. Each one represented a life lost to overdose in San Francisco this year from January to…

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Mothers Rally to End Deadly Fentanyl Epidemic

August 25, 2022
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Mothers Against Drug Deaths held a rally in San Francisco on Aug. 21, the first National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day. In front of City Hall, hand-painted rocks were placed on the front steps leading up to a podium. Each one represented a life lost to overdose in San Francisco this year from January to…

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High-Speed Rail: Boondoggle of Boondoggles

August 25, 2022
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Commentary When the $10 billion high-speed rail bond was on the ballot in 2008 and being pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of his environmentalist personal makeover, I made two predictions: 1. It really existed only to dole out billions to private contractors and construction-union members. 2. It never would get built, except possibly…

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Civil Rights Group Pushes States to Scrap Gender ‘Non-Disclosure’ Policies at Schools

August 24, 2022
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A national civil rights group has urged the California government to revise policies that require teachers and other school staff to hide the gender identities of students as young as kindergarten from their parents if the child so wishes. The civil rights non-profit Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) has also advised Oregon, Vermont, and…

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California’s EV Car Mandate Will Create a 2-Tier Society

August 24, 2022
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Commentary Acting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order from 2020, on Aug. 25 the California Air Resources Board will issue a mandate banning the use of fossil fuels in all vehicles sold in the state beginning in 2035. Most will be EVs—electric vehicles. This is supposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and end “climate change,”…

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Exposing the Homeless Industrial Complex

August 24, 2022
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Commentary Earlier this month, a guest column in San Jose Spotlight defended efforts by homeless nonprofits to end homelessness in Santa Clara County. The author, Ray Bramson, is the chief impact officer at the nonprofit “Destination Home,” a tax exempt organization that collected over $62 million in contributions and grants in 2020 (pdf). The CEO of this organization made…

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‘By-Right’ Housing by Might Politics

August 24, 2022
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What was once the American dream, to own a home for your family, is now becoming a fading fantasy for many Californians. The rate of home ownership in California is approximately 10 percent less than the national rate. Our state population is starting to decline for the first time in state history, and homeless numbers…

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California Gov. Newsom Tackles Water, Electricity

August 23, 2022
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Commentary “In California, whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting,” said Mark Twain. You can learn a lot even from people whose policies you generally don’t like. A good example is Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose political skills continue to evolve. Newsom knows the two biggest issues in California are not the ones in the…

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Autopsy Confirms Body Found in Reservoir Is Missing Girl Kiely Rodni

August 23, 2022
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TRUCKEE, Calif.—An autopsy Tuesday confirmed that a body found inside a car submerged in a Northern California reservoir is that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who disappeared after going to a large youth party earlier this month, authorities said. No other results of the autopsy were released in a Facebook post by the Nevada County Sheriff’s…

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California’s Rehabilitative Industrial Complex

August 23, 2022
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Commentary Can rehabilitative programming help reduce the likelihood that a convicted felon will victimize again upon release? It has been a question that the public, law enforcement, and budget-hungry non-governmental organizations have wrestled with for decades—and certainly will for the foreseeable future. I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that rehabilitative programming, when delivered…

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