The Housing Crisis Reveals How Much the Democrats Have Adopted Republican Policies Details
PLANNING WATCH-From the 1930s to the late 1960s the Democratic Party stood for two policies that successfully addressed this country’s chronic housing crisis: public housing and the minimum wage.
1) Public and publicly-subsidized housing. These housing policies, which date back to the New Deal, gradually ended beginning with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s and the dissolution of California’s Redevelopment Agencies in 2011. This shift was possible because the adoption of neo-liberal (trickle-down) housing policies was totally bipartisan.
2) Minimum wage laws. In this period, from the New Deal in the 1930s through the Great Society of the 1960s, the Democratic Party championed regular minimum wage increases. They began with $0.25/hour in 1938 and reached $7.25/hour in 2009, where the minimum wage has been stuck for 11 years. If the 2009 minim
Some of the highest gas prices seen in San Luis Obispo County as tax hike takes effect
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Californians now pay the most taxes on gas than people in any other state.
As a result of Senate Bill 1, the state gas tax increased by 0.6 cents per gallon, bringing the total state excise tax on gas to 51.1 cents.
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th travelers will be paying the highest state average price for regular [gas] since the 2014 holiday weekend,â said Jeffrey Spring, Automobile Club Southern California spokesman.
According to AAA, the average price per gallon of regular gas in San Luis Obispo County is $4.47. It s a little cheaper in Santa Barbara County with an average of $4.26/gal regular.
Staff at the San Francisco District Attorney s office will be required to ask, and then use, the correct names, pronouns, and titles for transgender and nonbinary crime victims, witnesses, and the accused, according to a new policy announced June 30.
The policy, effective Wednesday, will also allow charging documents to be amended to use their preferred names if the person accused of a crime requests it, though legal names will also continue to be listed secondarily on all charging documents for the purposes of criminal record-keeping.
At an afternoon news conference held after a Pride party at District Attorney Chesa Boudin s office in the Potrero Hill neighborhood the city s chief law enforcement officer said that it is the first policy of its kind in any California prosecutor s office.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an independent investigation into the death-row case of Kevin Cooper.
From day one, Cooper has steadfastly asserted his innocence in the 1983 quadruple murder he was sentenced to death for. He was convicted in 1985 of the murders of Doug and Peggy Ryen, their 10-year-old daughter, Jessica Ryen and 11-year-old neighbor, Chris Hughes. Joshua Ryen, then 8 years old, was the only survivor of the crime and told investigators that it was three white men who carried out the brutal murders. Despite Ryen’s eyewitness account, and other compelling evidence, Cooper, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced to be murdered by the state of California.
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As drought settles over the San Joaquin Valley, a new report warns of other circumstances that could result in entire communities losing drinking water.
More than a million Valley residents could lose their public water in coming decades under the sweeping groundwater legislation known as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), according to the paper published earlier this month by the non-profit Pacific Institute.
Signed into law in 2014, SGMA aims over the next two decades to reduce California’s groundwater deficit by balancing water pumped out of the ground with the amount replenished. The groundwater overhaul called for the state’s groundwater basins to be divided into hundreds of local governing boards known as groundwater sustainability agencies (GSA), each of which has created its own sustainability plan to ostensibly meet the needs of all of its water users.