When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed his $20 minimum wage mandate for fast-food workers, he described it as a “win-win-win” scenario. The reality reads more like a cautionary tale about what happens when woke politics intersects with reality. The FAST Recovery Act, implemented in 2023, was intended to be Newsom’s crowning triple achievement, designed to … Read more
Not many years ago, California appeared to be many people’s dream location. It was a good place to build a business. The many ports allowed easy access to the Pacific rim countries and Latin America, as well as excellent railroad connections, airports, and roads connecting it to the inland United States. Agriculture thrived in its … Read more
Is marijuana legal? In a sane world, that question would be easy to answer. Currently, any attempt to answer it exposes the confusing and contradictory state of American jurisprudence. The short answer is that it is legal in some states but illegal in the United States. Order Today: Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy … Read more
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) held two regional conferences in California to discuss the fight for temporal society in the West. On April 26, a TFP regional conference was held at the Anaheim Marriott Suites Hotel in Garden Grove. A day later, a second regional conference took place … Read more
Just before the end of the year, the State of California notified all those concerned with the welfare of children of a newly revised policy necessitated by the passage of Senate Bill 407 in 2023. To implement the new law, an “all county letter” from the California Health and Human Services Agency went out on … Read more
In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant tasked Colonel B. S. Alexander from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with assessing California’s water supply. Eventually, some 1,200 dams were built to manage what is both vital for California’s farming and the state’s most elusive resource. However, managing water was only part of the equation that made … Read more
The closing days of the 2024 election focused on the titanic battle for the presidency. However, a set of developments, primarily on the West Coast, may be nearly as important. I am referring to elections for District Attorney in Los Angeles and Alameda Counties in California and Multnomah County, Oregon. In each, a “progressive prosecutor” … Read more
California’s leftist legislature will now have the power to regulate the gasoline sales profits of the state’s oil refiners. Governor Gavin Newsom has just signed a law allowing the California Energy Commission (CEC) to establish a state gross gasoline refining profit margin and impose penalties for surpassing it. Chevron, the state’s biggest oil refiner, criticized … Read more
California’s record rains eliminated the effects of years of severe drought. However, the water problem is far from solved. Farmers watched in horror as much of the surplus water flowed uselessly back into the ocean. What was the reason for sending desperately needed water back to the ocean? A 3-inch Delta smelt. Order Today: Return … Read more
Dan Becker is the director of the Safe Climate Transport Campaign. He hates gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles. In February 2024, he spoke to the Washington Post about a proposal to slow the phase-in of federal regulations requiring manufacturers to produce electric vehicles (EVs). “It will mean more pollution, more sick kids, more global warming, more … Read more
