Category: Northern California

Gun Owners’ Private Information Breached After California Unveils Firearms Portal

Firearms owners who have a concealed carry permit in California had their data leaked Monday after Attorney General Rob Bonta launched a 2022 Firearms Dashboard Portal, according to gun rights groups. According to gun news outlet The Reload, personal information was leaked online for at least 2,891 people who live in Los Angeles County and have…


Teen Who Had Double Mastectomy Regrets ‘Gender Journey’

A 17-year-old girl who regrets having both of her breasts removed as a result of so-called “gender-affirming care” testified before a California Assembly committee hearing June 38, urging state lawmakers to reject proposed legislation that would make California a transgender sanctuary state. “I was medically transitioned from ages 13 and 16,” Chloe Cole from the Central Valley told…


California to Help First-Time Homebuyers With Down Payment

SACRAMENTO—Lawmakers are pulling funds together for a billion-dollar proposal to help first-time home buyers cover their down payment, as part of the 2022–2023 state budget signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom June 27. Proposed by California Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), the “California Dream for All” program would help pay 17 percent of…


California Approves Amendment to Codify Abortion for November Ballot

SACRAMENTO—California Assemblymembers voted to bring forth an amendment to codify abortion in its Constitution yesterday afternoon in a 58 to 16 vote. Senate Constitutional Amendment 10 (SCA 10), authored by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), will go before voters in the General Election in November. SCA 10 will expand the state’s current…


Counterproductive California Environmental Bills

Commentary Back in March, Capital & Main ran a really biased headline, “Will California’s Fossil Fuel Industry Use the Ukraine War to Undermine Oil and Gas Legislation?” Subhead, “Three bills may fall victim to a new push for more oil drilling.” Let’s look at those bills today, three months later, and with gas prices now…


Drug Traffickers Arrested With 150,000 Fentanyl Pills Set Free Just Days After Arrest: Police

Two drug traffickers who were arrested during a traffic stop in California last week after they got allegedly busted with 150,000 pills of fentanyl have been released back onto the streets, officials said. Detectives arrested Jose Zendejas, 25, and Benito Madrigal, 19, both from Washington, during a fentanyl bust in Tulare County on June 24,…


Californians to Receive $1,050 in Inflation Relief

About 23 million Californians will be eligible to receive $1,050 checks under a new inflation relief package, the governor announced June 26. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) agreed to allocate $17 billion from the state’s budget toward inflation relief. Part of that fund,…


California Lawmakers Doubling Down on Expanding Abortion Access, Welcoming Out-of-State Residents

SACRAMENTO— Following the historic decision by the U.S. Supreme Court last week to overturn Roe v. Wade, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed new legislation to make abortion services widely accessible and legal in California for abortion seekers from other states. Since the 1973 precedent—which overrode state-level abortion restrictions and largely legalized the procedure nationwide—has been overruled,…


Feds Sue Sacramento Councilman for Allegedly Threatening to Deport Employees Helping Investigators

By Theresa Clift From The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The federal government has sued Sacramento City Councilman Sean Loloee, alleging he threatened to deport employees who cooperated with a federal investigation into his grocery stores. The lawsuit, filed April 1 in federal court in Sacramento by the U.S. Department of Labor, also claims Loloee underpaid employees,…


California Catholic Churches and Pregnancy Centers Prepare for ‘Night of Rage’ From Pro-Abortion Activists

Some Catholic churches and pregnancy help centers in California are preparing for possible violent attacks in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade—after being warned by the federal government about recent credible threats from a radical group. The Diocese of Stockton, California, sent an urgent memo on June 23 to…