Shift ballot powers from AG to LAO • Wildfires spur smarter approaches to rebuilding
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025

A new voice to fight for California’s Hispanic community

The future is ours to shape—let’s make it one we can all be proud of.

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Shift ballot powers from AG to LAO

A long overdue reform of who writes the wording for state ballot initiatives and referendums is before the Legislature.

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Wildfires spur smarter approaches to rebuilding

California’s government rarely is on the cusp of useful reform, but at least it sometimes does learn some lessons after crisis strikes.

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Guantánamo needs to be shut down, not expanded

Guantánamo’s legacy of injustice must end.

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Proposed CPPA rules would harm small and Black-owned businesses

Our state’s privacy regulators need to go back to the drawing board and craft rules that protect small businesses and genuinely address real privacy risks – not burden businesses with solving problems that don’t exist.

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Blaming everyone but herself, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass needs to go

Voters should take a cue from Bob Fosse and invite her to leave the theater immediately.

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Investigate and shutter the bullet train

Last week, federal transportation officials announced an investigation into federal funding of California’s high-speed rail boondoggle. It’s about time.

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Trump, Newsom play high-stakes game over billions in federal wildfire aid

The situation is a high-stakes poker game between two egocentric politicians and a reminder that while Newsom often refers to California as a “nation-state” with global influence, it’s still very dependent on Washington when disaster strikes.

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A multi-billion-dollar rule targeting homeowners and renters makes no sense

Interestingly, little to no debate or any public outreach by the SCAQMD has occurred on these costly rules.

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Government can’t ban surfing lessons on public beaches

The city has been in a legal dispute with Jason — a 41-year-old former Navy diver turned business owner — for a decade.

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