What you should know about California special sessions
Nov 15, 2024 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called a special session of the Legislature for Dec. 2nd to "safeguard California values" against perceived threat from another Trump administration. Today's edition of the Micheli Files has all …
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CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: Today we welcome Stephanie Roberson, of Stephanie Roberson Strategies. Roberson formed SRS, a boutique, black-owned single member firm, in late 2022 after 15 years representing the California Nurses Association.
The Republican who emptied the asylums - Capitol Weekly
Oct 24, 2024 · He studied music at the University of Southern California and as a young man played organ in silent movie houses in the Los Angeles area. With the advent of the talkies, demand for his talent e bbed and he joined the family land business, got involved in Republican politics and became president of the La Cañada chamber of commerce.. As war spread in Europe and Asia in 1941, Lanterman led an ...
Tribes waste no time suing to block ‘California Blackjack,’ other …
Jan 2, 2025 · On the first day they were permitted to do so, several of California’s largest gaming tribes filed a suit on Thursday alleging that the arcane system cardrooms and related businesses employ to offer “California Blackjack” and other Las Vegas-style games is in violation of state law.. Under Proposition 1A, approved by California voters …
Selected rules of statutory interpretation in California
Nov 1, 2024 · The court’s fundamental task in construing a statute is to ascertain the Legislature’s intent and effectuate the law’s purpose. In re Greg F. (2012) 55 Cal.4th 393, 406 The courts in California always begin with a review of the statutory language and whether it is “clear on its face.”
Experts Expound: We Resolve - Capitol Weekly
Jan 3, 2025 · New Year’s resolutions are a staple for many folks, a way to establish goals for themselves they believe will make their lives better. With that in mind, we posed this question to our panel of Capitol observers: What one resolution would you suggest to lawmakers for 2025?
Capitol Weekly's Top 100 - Capitol Weekly
Each year since 2009, Capitol Weekly has published an annual list of the one hundred most powerful movers and shakers in California politics and public policy: The Top 100. We don’t include elected officials. Instead, we look at those who devote their professional lives to fighting for – or against – issues of state politics
California’s sustainable energy leadership: past, present – and …
Jan 2, 2025 · OPINION – Its long-held “green” reputation notwithstanding, California was not destined to be the catalyst for the sustainable energy boom at the beginning of the 21 st century, despite Gov. Jerry Brown’s embrace of renewable resources and energy efficiency in the latter half of the 1970s and early 1980s.. Indeed, in 1996 Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and the state legislature rejected ...
The Micheli Minute for January 6, 2025 - Capitol Weekly
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Stuart Spencer, 1927 - 2025 - Capitol Weekly
Jan 13, 2025 · Stuart K. Spencer, the California political strategist who guided Ronald Reagan’s ascent from Hollywood to the governor’s mansion, and ultimately to the presidency, has died at age 97. Spencer ran Reagan’s successful 1966 gubernatorial campaign in California, and his presidential campaigns in ...