As revenues continue to fall, California may face a $7 billion higher budget deficit than the governor forecast in January, according to the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office. “Although the Governor’s budget revenue estimates are reasonable, they are likely a bit too high,” according to Legislative Analyst Gabriel Petek’s 2023–24 Multiyear Assessment report issued Feb. 15….
California Could Face $7 Billion Higher Budget Deficit Than First Forecast
February 27, 2023
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Watchdog Group Accuses California’s First Lady of Profiting by Showing ‘Gender Justice’ Films to Schoolchildren
February 25, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO—Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has been criticized for allegedly making a profit by screening her “gender justice” films to public school children. The scrutiny comes from a nonpartisan government watchdog group called Open the Books, which claimed that “Siebel Newsom spent years laying the ideological groundwork and political…
California Lawmakers to Consider Gov. Newsom’s Windfall Tax on Oil Companies
February 22, 2023
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California lawmakers will hold a special public hearing Feb. 22 to consider Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to impose a windfall tax on oil companies. The proposal would place mandatory caps on oil refinery profits and add industry regulations and oversight, according to the governor. The state Senate committee meeting comes months after Newsom first started…
Newsom Issues Executive Order on ‘Water Resilience’ Amid Flood of Criticism
February 15, 2023
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Feb. 13 intended to protect the state’s water supplies from climate change and the risk of prolonged drought, despite the state’s wettest three-week period on record in late December and early January. The state has seen an unseasonably dry February and could see a return to warm and dry…
California Governor Issues Executive Order on ‘Water Resilience’ Amid Flood of Criticism
February 15, 2023
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Feb. 13 intended to protect the state’s water supplies from climate change and the risk of prolonged drought, despite the state’s wettest three-week period on record in late December and early January. The state has seen an unseasonably dry February and could see a return to warm and dry…
Newsom Gunning for More Gun Bans
February 13, 2023
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Commentary President Joe Biden looked chipper in his recent State of the Union Address. That means his re-election announcement could come soon. And it means Gov. Gavin Newsom’s own quest for the presidency probably will have to wait until 2028. In the meantime, he’s still burnishing his bona fides with the left wing of the…
Los Angeles Times’ Risible Attack on Oil Profits
February 10, 2023
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Commentary One of the great reasons to read The Epoch Times is to counter the nonsense on California perpetrated every day by the Los Angeles Times, which is still highly influential in state politics. A case in point is a recent editorial that opines, “Big Oil reaps record profits while the planet burns. California should…
Newsom Grandstands on Oil Profits
February 6, 2023
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Commentary You would think Gov. Gavin Newsom would be happy with higher gas prices at the pump, and the ensuing high oil company profits. The hits to consumers encourage people to buy the electric cars his 2020 executive order mandates for all new-vehicle sales by 2035. The order even explained at the time, “Clear policies…
The Billionaire Behind the Chaos: George Soros and the Rise of Crime in America
February 2, 2023
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George Soros is the notorious billionaire who bankrolls many progressive groups, policies, and personnel. To understand why crime has risen and why the criminal justice system is failing America, you have to follow his money right down to the district attorneys. Soros built a whole philosophy on the reflexiveness of interconnected systems, whereby one system…
California Officials Push New Gun Laws After Mass Shootings
February 1, 2023
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California Democrats will try again this year to strengthen concealed carry laws following a string of shootings in the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom joined other high-ranking Democrats Feb. 1 in a press conference to announce the reintroduction of legislation that would raise the legal age of firearm purchases to 21 and increase requirements for concealed…
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