A California district court ruled Thursday that a state law mandating companies, including religious organizations, pay for elective abortions as part of their health insurance plans is unconstitutional.
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California Will Not Enforce Movie Set Gun Safety Measures In Light Of Alec Baldwin ‘Rust’ Shooting
A bill to institute gun safety measures in the aftermath of the October 21, 2021, Rust shooting has failed to pass the Democrat-dominated California legislature.
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California Becomes ‘a refuge state for trans kids and their parents’
The California State Assembly passed a bill on Monday that would establish the state as a “refuge” for transgender children and their families.
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California Deep In Drought
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, whose district is in California, called out Democratic Governor of California Gavin Newsom on Sunday over his handling of the ongoing drought in the state.
“They haven’t built any new water storage. No new dams. They don’t have any desalination,” he continued. “They continue to let water go out into the ocean. So in a drought year, you do not have the reservoirs to be able to supply the water that’s needed,” McCarthy told Fox News.
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California Governor Newsom Signs Gun Law
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a gun control bill into law that will allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, sells, transports or distributes illegal “assault weapons and ghost guns.”
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Californians Say No to Higher Taxes and Debt.
California pays some the highest taxes on pay and gas in the country. And there are signs voters have had enough.
Voters defeated on Tuesday the largest borrowing proposal in the history of California schools — $15 billion for repairs. And it has led to questions if the state is on the cusp of a 1970s style tax revolt.
It has been a generation since a school bond failed. Voters also rejected more than half of the 237 local tax and bond measures on that ballot.
“There is a sense that California isn’t working,” Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney said. When a fresh request came from Sacramento for billions in new debt, voters said: “We’ve been taxed enough.”
Soaring taxes are not the only thing angering residents. The high cost of housing, a costly high-speed rail project and the homelessness crisis in the state’s major cities are also contributing to voter unease.
Others are asking why voters are being asked to pay more taxes at a time when the economy has been strong and the state is rolling up a multibillion-dollar budget surpluses?
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Federal Civil Rights Office Threatens California Over Abortion Insurance
The Trump administration has put California on notice: stop forcing insurance providers to cover abortion, or risk financial consequences. In a statement they said:
“Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced an action to protect human life and the conscience rights of all Americans,”
The statement is official notification to California, “that it cannot impose universal abortion coverage mandates on health insurance plans and issuers in violation of federal conscience laws,” reads the statement.
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Democrats in California Push Radical Left Agenda
California Supreme Court Rejects Law to Force Presidential Candidates to Publish Tax Returns
California’s Supreme Court has rejected a law that would have forced any candidate to publish their 5 year tax returns in order to appear on the primary ballot.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat, had signed the bill in July. However the state Republican Party and Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson challenged the bill.
The court has now ruled the bill unconstitutional.
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Ridgecrest Earthquake California Shows Small Faults Can Trigger Big Quakes
The Ridgecrest earthquake back in July has shown how a relatively small quake can trigger faults over a wider area. The Ridgecrest quake has seen over 24 faults rupture.
Ridgecrest started with three separate quakes, which released enough energy to trigger a 6.4 sized quake. The following day there were 4 additional quakes which then triggered a 7.1 sized quake.
“The geometry of this fault network is just incredibly complicated,” said Zachary Ross, Caltech assistant professor of geophysics. “These faults are unmapped … many of them are at right angles to each other; they’re cross-cutting each other. In the central portion of it, they are spaced a few kilometers apart, like dominoes. There’s 20 of them in a row. This 7.1 ripped through all of these.”
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California’s Pot Users Three Times More Likely to Buy Illegally
California has the largest cannabis market in the world. However a recent audit of the industry found users are three times more likely to buy illegally than from licensed sellers.
The United Cannabis Business Association (UCBA) which commissioned the audit has rebuked government officials for failing to shut down illegal pot houses. They blame online sites where users post the locations of places to buy cannabis of high potency for driving the illegal sales.
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California’s Governor Signs Bill Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Access Healthcare
California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that would extend healthcare provision to illegal immigrants aged 19-25.
The bill will extend healthcare provision to around 90,000 individuals at an estimated cost of $98 million.
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California’s “Earthquake Pause” is Leaving Scientists Baffled.
We all grew up being told in school how California is along a major fault line, and that to expect to see a major earthquake there sometime, anytime, soon. Well, scientists are being left baffled by why they have not seen any major ground-rupturing quakes in the region in 100-years.
The computer models they have run for the fault lines in the region say there is only a 0.3% chance of this happening. As a result geophysicists are wondering if something else is causing the “earthquake pause”.
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PROPHET LEAVES CALIFORNIA ZONE- LARGEST EARTHQUAKE IN 25 YEARS HITS SAN FRANCISCO AREA
The San Francisco area was hit with the strongest quake in 25 years. The 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The power was out in Napa, only 6 miles away from the earthquakes epicentre, affecting over 10,000 households, and some cellphone networks were down. California’s Highway 12 was also damaged, with areas of the highway buckled by the quake. There was damage to buildings in Napa. There were no fatalities in the quake.
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