Sacramento killed two bipartisan lobbying transparency bills without a hearing, while a new Assembly bill could expose journalists who report on government-funded immigration nonprofits to $4,000-per-violation fines—with no press exemption. These aren't isolated failures: recent months have also surfaced a rigged curriculum review in San Francisco, $465 affordable housing units that were promised but never funded, and a tropical disease outbreak that courts kept cities from cleaning up for over a year. The throughline is a government that resists scrutiny, avoids accountability, and leaves the public to find out after the fact.
SF's state legislator asks Attorney General to probe missing trees instead of addressing homelessness, drug deaths, or housing.
A quiet amendment to the "Billionaire Tax" would force founders to go bankrupt or surrender control of their companies.
Per capita spending jumped from $4,350 to $12,940 while population grew just 11%. Where did all that money go?
First Assistant US Attorney promises 'massive' fraud prosecutions are just beginning. More arrests coming 'perhaps this month.'
California's most powerful environmental justice group thinks your right to own a home is a colonial relic. They're killing housing to prove it.