Gavin Newsom outraged over California’s high gas prices, says oil companies are ‘price fixing’
California Governor Gavin Newsom wants his citizens to be outraged over high gas prices, threatening to sue oil companies, requesting on Monday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra investigate possible More...
California: Gov Gavin Newsom halts high speed rail connection between LA and San Fran, but wants to keep the federal funds
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoned a high-speed rail project Tuesday that would have been a connect between Los Angeles and San Francisco due to cost and time. photo TaxRebate.org.uk “Let’s level More...
Jerry Brown attacks Trump on climate, says he does ‘not represent the people of the United States’
California Gov. Jerry Brown attacked the Trump administration’s “behavior” at the United Nations climate summit in Poland, arguing it did “not represent the people of the United States.” “The United More...
California’s wild fires grow, death toll rises to over 30, Gerard Butler shares photo of destroyed Malibu home
The Camp Fire burning near Chico, California is now the single most destructive and third-deadliest fire in state history as the death roll rose to 31 on Sunday with the discovery of six more bodies. Check More...
California adds new sexist law to require women on companies boards’
Companies headquartered in California can no longer have all-male boards. A new law passed on Sunday requires publicly traded firms in the state to place at least one woman on their board of directors by the end More...
California passes Net Neutrality regulations, sparking DOJ investigation
California Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law the strictest set of net neutrality regulations ever seen in the US and the Trump administration immediately said it’d challenge the state’s authority in More...
California: Jerry Brown signs extreme water consumption bills into law, restricts shower, laundry and toilet use
California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills into law Thursday aimed at reducing water consumption in the state, even in non-drought conditions. “In preparation for the next drought and our changing More...
Montana: Judge rules to allow midwife and nurse to perform abortions as ACLU sues over requirement for a doctor
A judge in Montana has granted a midwife and a nurse permission to commit abortions while a lawsuit preventing non-doctors from practicing abortion is litigated. Caitlin Borgmann, the Executive Director of the ACLU More...
California Gov Jerry Brown signs law lowering failure to disclose HIV to partner, blood donation from felony to misdemeanor
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday that lowers from a felony to a misdemeanor the crime of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection. This measure will also apply to blood More...
California defies Trump, feds and becomes ‘Sanctuary State’ for illegal immigrants
California officially became a sanctuary state for illegal aliens on Thursday with the stroke of Gov. Jerry Brown’s pen. Senate Bill 54 will go into effect in January 2018. Brown signed the bill entitled the “California More...
U.S. States Taking Action and Committing to the Paris Climate Agreement
Many people around the nation and the world were extremely disappointed with President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris Climate Agreement recently. Now, the United States joins only Nicaragua and war-torn Syria More...
Farmers pushing back against California’s regulation of cow emissions to battle global warming as ‘foolish’
California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm as Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation which regulates “heat-trapping gases” from livestock operations and landfills. Farmers pressed More...
Jerry Brown signs California law reinstating the right for felons to vote, ends ‘discrimination in voting’
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the reinstatement of voting rights for felons who are not doing time in state or federal prisons. The law will go into effect in 2017. Governor Brown signed the bill More...
Supreme Court orders California to release convicts to afford health care for those remaining prisoners
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to cut the prison population, California holds 136,000 inmates as of 2014 per CDCR report. Of the 2013-2014 budget, 7% was spent on corrections and was set to rise More...
California Gov Jerry Brown pardons Robert Downey Jr of 1990s drug crimes
Gov. Jerry Brown just included Robert Downey Jr in his Christmas Eve habit of handing out pardons, nullifying the Iron Man star’s 1990s drug convictions. Downey’s official forgiving was one of 91 issued More...
California expands illegal immigrants rights, adding health care for kids
California already offer in-state tuition and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, but now moves ahead on limits on deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. Additionally, a new law to More...
Democrats move for removal of anti-gay gender terms in Federal law
Many Americans didn’t realize the terms “husband” and “wife” were anti-gay, but they are “gendered terms” that discriminate against gay people, says Democratic supporters of a More...
California law requires students to be vaccinated, denies opting out for ‘beliefs’
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a law that requires public and private school students to receive vaccinations to attend school. The law was designed as a measure to prevent outbreaks of diseases in schools, More...
Supreme Court affirms right to use drug midazolam in lethal injection executions
The Supreme Court has affirmed the use of a drug that has been implicated in several botched lethal executions, which has now fueled renewed pressure on California to review the use of lethal injections. The justices More...
California moves ahead with assisted suicide bill
California’s Senate voted last week to approve the End of Life Option bill, which now heads to the state Assembly for debate, while Gov. Jerry Brown hasn’t said whether he would sign the bill. “Passing SB128 More...
