The signatures for the End Prop. 47 initiative are currently being counted and verified. We will know soon whether it’s qualified for November’s ballot. All signs are positive: A total of 546,000 valid signatures are needed, and 910,000 signatures were submitted. That means 60 percent of them need to be valid. For the signatures counted […]
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It’s true. The state is raising the gas tax again. It will now be 60 cents per gallon. And this was just part of a dizzying week of insanity and ineptitude in California: The high-speed rail authority unveiled a “bridge to nowhere” that took 9 years and cost $11 billion. Newsom asked for more money to figure out
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The last week has unleashed a dizzying amount of insanity and ineptitude in California. The state is raising the gas tax again, up to 60 cents per gallon. The high-speed rail authority unveiled a “bridge to nowhere” that took 9 years and $11 billion. Newsom asked for more money to figure out what happened to
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Last week, I was at the Supreme Court to give California communities back the ability to clear tent encampments from parks and sidewalks. It looks promising. But in a sadly ironic twist, an even more disturbing type of encampment soon thereafter spread like wildfire. Universities have allowed outside agitators, along with some troubled students and
Last week, I was at the Supreme Court to give California communities back the ability to clear tent encampments from parks and sidewalks. It looks promising. But in a sadly ironic twist, an even more disturbing type of encampment soon thereafter spread like wildfire. Universities have allowed outside agitators, along with some troubled students and
The Newsom presidential bubble has burst. We’ve exposed the disaster he’s made of California, and the national party wants nothing to do with him. The unofficial eulogy for the campaign-that-never-was just appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the headline, “What Ever Happened to Gavin Newsom?” The sub-headline: “He was a rising star a few
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The Newsom presidential bubble has burst. We’ve exposed the disaster he’s made of California, and the national party wants nothing to do with him. The unofficial eulogy for the campaign-that-never-was just appeared in the Wall Street Journal under the headline, “What Ever Happened to Gavin Newsom?” The sub-headline: “He was a rising star a few
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I just left the U.S. Supreme Court, where I’ve asked the Court to restore the ability of local communities to clear homeless encampments from our public spaces. Based on this morning’s oral argument, the Court appears poised to do just that. (See my reaction outside the courthouse.) There are 9 times more unsheltered homeless in California than
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I just left the U.S. Supreme Court, where I’ve asked the Court to restore the ability of local communities to clear homeless encampments from our public spaces. Based on this morning’s oral argument, the Court appears poised to do just that. (See my reaction outside the courthouse.) There are 9 times more unsheltered homeless in California than
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