Then candidate Brown promised potential voters that lowering California’s debt will be the highest priority if he were to get elected. His plan consisted of raising taxes temporarily so that if California were to enter a rainy day we would be okay. “Annually, as Brown presented his budgets to the Legislature, he would display charts […]

Monday, November 4, 2019 Dealing with disrespectful and defiant students in California’s classrooms just got more difficult.  California Democrats introduced Senate Bill 419, which would make it illegal to suspend kids for “disrupting school activities” or “willfully defying the valid authority of school personnel.”  Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a similar bill in 2018, stating, “Teachers and principals […]

Last month, the California Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by Gov. Newsom’s administration disputing lower court rulings that found the state wrongly used money from a national mortgage settlement to help balance the state budget. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration announced that it would begin work on transferring $331 million back into the special […]

The authors of a bill that would allow San Francisco drug users to inject themselves at supervised facilities without legal consequences announced last month that the bill won’t move forward this year. Assembly Bill 362 (AB 362) would have created a safe injection site pilot program in San Francisco that, if passed, would last for […]

Earlier last month, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Alva Vernon Johnson as the director of the California State Lottery. This appointment comes after former director Hugo Lopez stepped down a few days earlier amid investigations. Lopez held the position since 2015 and in his resignation letter he noted that he oversaw a period of growth at […]

In late March, the California Department of Motor Vehicles’ audit, conducted by the California Department of Finance, was released and it claims that the DMV has “significant deficiencies” and an “outdated” organizational structure that led to poor customer service and that resulted in the failed implementation of the Real ID program. It was determined by […]

According to the annual economic disclosure reports, California legislators accepted over $810,000 in gifts in 2018. Many of these gifts such as tickets to concerts and professional sporting events came from powerful interest groups lobbying the state. Some of the legislators reported accepting travel expenses for trips to countries such as China, Chile, India, Israel, […]

In January, the California Bail Reform Act (Senate Bill 10) was put on hold after a referendum qualified to let voters decide if cash bail will be abolished in California. The law was scheduled to take effect this October, but the fate of SB 10 will now be decided by voters in November 2020. According […]

Governor Gavin Newsom announced in January the creation of a new strike team to improve services at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Gov. Newsom stated the following regarding the DMV, By any metric, California DMV has been chronically mismanaged and failed in its fundamental mission to the state customers it serves and the state workers […]

California’s new governor, Gavin Newsom, unveiled his first California budget proposal last month and it’s an $8 billion increase over Jerry Brown’s last budget. Governor Newsom plans on pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into housing and homelessness. These two issues were a major part of his campaign last year that he promised he would […]