Category: Northern California

Newsom Takes Shot Red State Murder Rates in Truth Social Debut

California Gov. Gavin Newsom caught the nation by surprise June 16 when he made his debut on Truth Social and took a shot at red states over high murder rates. Newsom’s first “truth”—truths are to Truth Social as tweets are to Twitter—is a short video of himself talking about murder rates, and while essentially true…


Newsom Takes Shot at Red State Murder Rates in Truth Social Debut

California Gov. Gavin Newsom caught the nation by surprise June 16 when he made his debut on Truth Social and took a shot at red states over high murder rates. Newsom’s first “truth”—truths are to Truth Social as tweets are to Twitter—is a short video of himself talking about murder rates, and while essentially true…


Mom, Daughter Sue School District in Alleged Transgender ‘Coaching’ Case

A lawsuit has been filed against a California school district and staff accused of coaching a middle school student into thinking she was transgender and secretly changing her name and pronouns at school. The lawsuit alleges school staff manipulated the sixth-grade student into “believing she was bisexual and that her gender did not match her…


Angel Stadium Sale May Face New Hurdles With Proposed Legislation

ANAHEIM, Calif.—New legislation filed by California State Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Santa Ana) could create another hurdle for Anaheim’s sale of Angel Stadium. Senate Bill (SB) 361 would prohibit the sale of a parcel of land if it is not in compliance with the state’s Surplus Land Act, a law that requires all public land sales…


SpaceX Plans Weekend Launches From California, Florida

LOS ANGELES—Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is planning three flights this weekend from California and Florida. The first flight is set to launch shortly after noon on June 17 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket will deploy 53 more Starlink internet satellites. The second flight will follow the next day…


‘It Was a Mistake’: California Gas Station Manager Fired Over Blunder That Led to 69-cent Gasoline Sales

A manager at a gas station in California has reportedly been fired from his job after accidentally listing gas at 69 cents per gallon, giving drivers a speedy discount. John Szczecina ran the Shell gas station in Rancho Cordova and made the costly mistake on June 9. The former manager says he accidentally put a decimal in the wrong…


Republicans Demand Gas Tax Relief for Californians

Republican lawmakers gathered at California’s Capitol building June 15 to mark the 100th day since their Democratic peers promised gas price relief, calling for concrete actions on relieving pain at the pump. If the majority Democratic Party would have voted to suspend the gas tax at the start of the year as Republicans have proposed,…


California Legislature Moving Fast on Pro-Abortion Amendment to State Constitution

California Democrats are proposing amendments to the state’s constitution seeking to codify abortion as a constitutional right for its citizens, a countermove predicated on the expectation that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. One of the proposed amendments would explicitly ban the state from denying or…


Parent Speaks Out Against Legislation to Make California a Trans Sanctuary State

A mother of a teen who once suffered from gender dysphoria is speaking out against making California a sanctuary state for transgender youth and their “gender-affirming” parents, saying it would be a big mistake that would only worsen the “largest medical scandal in history.” Erin Friday, a self-declared Democrat whose daughter no longer identifies as…


California’s ‘Close Enough for Government Work’ Budget

Commentary It’s hard to believe I first started writing about California budgets in 1987, now 35 years ago. In those days, it still took a two-thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature to pass a budget, instead of simple majorities as today after Proposition 25 passed in 2010. And Republicans then still held…