Category: Northern California

California Bill to Cut Gas Tax Fails 3rd Time

March 29, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—The effort to temporarily halt California’s 51-cent gas tax failed for a third time in a state assembly committee as lawmakers instead proposed changing the bill by adding a new tax on fuel suppliers to feed a rebate program for gas consumers. Assembly Bill 1638 by Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) was accepted to be heard…

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San Francisco Is Choosing to Inflict Moral Injury on Its Cops

March 29, 2022
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Commentary The staggering loss of police officers in San Francisco has been reported more and more often recently, including by me. Estimates from the department itself say the SFPD is at least 500 officers short. About a year ago, a high-ranking member said that going below the threshold of 1,016 full-duty sworn officers on patrol…

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California Republican Candidates Gear Up for Primaries at Forum

March 28, 2022
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YORBA LINDA, Calif.—Fourteen Republican candidates met at a “Meet the Candidates” forum on March 24 to talk about their platforms and issues that they believe matter most to voters as they prepare for California’s June primaries and the November midterm elections. The candidates, vying for U.S. Senate, governor, attorney general, and secretary of state, are…

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California Sends 14 Million COVID-19 Tests to Schools

March 28, 2022
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SACRAMENTO—As students and staff return from Spring Break, Gov. Gavin Newsom over the past month deployed 14.3 million COVID-19 at-home tests to halt outbreaks. With roughly 7.2 million students and staff in the state, according to the governor’s office, the test will be distributed to all public and private schools in the state. “California is…

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Actually, Newsom’s Gas Card Rebate Is a Great Idea

March 27, 2022
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Commentary Republicans are making a mistake criticizing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to give every car owner a $400 debit card to make up for the soaring cost of gas at the pump. It would be mailed out in July. “July? Seriously?” charged Republican Assembly Leader James Gallagher of Yuba City on March 23. “Californians are…

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California State University Drops SAT Test as ‘Too Stressful’

March 25, 2022
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Commentary Chalk another one up for progressives never letting a good crisis go to waste. They have been using the COVID-19 crisis to implement a host of progressive dream programs, including government handouts, eviction protections, enhanced unemployment benefits, universal mask and vaccine mandates, and trillion dollar government spending packages. A far more insidious, yet lesser…

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$400 Rebate Doesn’t Address High Gas Taxes in California

March 25, 2022
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Commentary While serving as a state senator, I can still remember working at my district office on a state holiday, one where governmental offices are closed, but the private sector does not observe it and continues to stay open and do business. The phone rang and I decided to answer it. “I just drove from…

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California Taxes Aren’t Going Up—This Year

March 25, 2022
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Commentary If you look at California tax increases by the state legislature, they almost always occur in even years, when there are no elections except for vacant seats. However, the $5 billion yearly gas tax increase was imposed in 2017. And Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s record $13 billion tax increase hit in 2009. That’s why this…

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San Francisco in 2024

March 25, 2022
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Before the world changed with the onset of COVID-19, San Francisco was dealing with real problems, like throwing widely used terms “down the memory hole.” This was done, and continues today, in order to create and control a new alternate reality that desperately tries to conceal the failings of progressive political policies. “Don’t you see…

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California State University Permanently Ends Standardized Test Requirements for Admissions

March 25, 2022
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California State University, the largest public university system in the United States, on Wednesday said it will no longer use college entrance exams in undergraduate admissions. The change means that applicants may still submit their SAT or ACT scores if they wish to do so, but admissions counselors at Cal State will not look at…

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