Pacific Gas and Electric customers could soon see a big bump in their electric bills under a proposed rate increase that the California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote on Thursday in Sacramento. The PUC is scheduled to consider proposals that would raise PG&E's revenues by billions of dollars...
Think Your PG&E Electric Bill Is Already Too High? It’s Going Even Higher Soon
Pacific Gas and Electric customers could soon see a big bump in their electric bills under a proposed rate increase that the California Public Utilities Commission is scheduled to vote on Thursday in Sacramento. The PUC is scheduled to consider proposals that would raise PG&E's revenues by billions of dollars...
Newsom Hypocrisy Exposed by His Handling of Diversity Reporting Bills
Coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for venture capital firms. Not coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for Gov. Gavin Newsom. As the bill signing period wrapped up earlier this month, Newsom approved a measure that will force venture capital firms operating in California to collect and disclose...
Newsom Hypocrisy Exposed by His Handling of Diversity Reporting Bills
Coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for venture capital firms. Not coming soon to California: a diversity reporting mandate for Gov. Gavin Newsom. As the bill signing period wrapped up earlier this month, Newsom approved a measure that will force venture capital firms operating in California to collect and disclose...
Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster Leaves California’s GOP House Delegation Politically Vulnerable
When a handful of uber-right Republicans forced Speaker Kevin McCarthy out, they may have doomed GOP chances of retaining marginal seats in California and thus control of the House. McCarthy, whose district is centered in Bakersfield, made winning seats in his native state a high priority, recruiting candidates and supplying them with...
Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster Leaves California’s GOP House Delegation Politically Vulnerable
When a handful of uber-right Republicans forced Speaker Kevin McCarthy out, they may have doomed GOP chances of retaining marginal seats in California and thus control of the House. McCarthy, whose district is centered in Bakersfield, made winning seats in his native state a high priority, recruiting candidates and supplying them with...
Kevin McCarthy Draws Another Challenger. This One Is a MAGA Republican.
Although David Giglio is a Republican, he has been critical of Congressman (formerly Speaker) Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. Giglio, a Madera businessman, has taken McCarthy to task constantly on X, formerly Twitter. Now Giglio plans to do something about it. He is running against McCarthy. "Kevin McCarthy has failed the American...
Kevin McCarthy Draws Another Challenger. This One Is a MAGA Republican.
Although David Giglio is a Republican, he has been critical of Congressman (formerly Speaker) Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. Giglio, a Madera businessman, has taken McCarthy to task constantly on X, formerly Twitter. Now Giglio plans to do something about it. He is running against McCarthy. "Kevin McCarthy has failed the American...
Special Report: Fire, Drought, Bark Beetles Ravage CA’s Prized Forests. How Do We Restore Them?
KYBURZ, Calif. — On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand in silhouette against a gray sky. “If you can find a live tree, point to it,” Hugh Safford, an environmental science and policy researcher at...
Special Report: Fire, Drought, Bark Beetles Ravage CA’s Prized Forests. How Do We Restore Them?
KYBURZ, Calif. — On a steep mountainside where walls of flames torched the forest on their way toward Lake Tahoe in 2021, blackened trees stand in silhouette against a gray sky. “If you can find a live tree, point to it,” Hugh Safford, an environmental science and policy researcher at...