Government

Flat-fee contracts have been banned in other parts of the country. But, as the story of one law firm shows, they have flourished in the Golden State. (Side note. Mariposa County just made a budget transfer to increase the county’s available funds for contracted legal defense services.) BY ANAT RUBIN 17 For three years, the…

Records show Anamaria Avila Farias tried to have her month placed under conservatorship. She dropped it once she gained control of disputed properties. BY RHONDA LYONS, SPECIAL FOR CALMATTERS CAL MATTERS (This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.) AnaMaria Ávila Bugarin had racked up tens of thousands of dollars in bills for psychological…

By John Haughey July 28, 2026Updated:July 28, 2026 (Republished from The Epoch Times – epochtimes.com) IDAHO FALLS, Idaho—History was made with the flip of a switch at 12:30 a.m. on June 4, under partly cloudy skies and a waning three-quarter moon in Idaho’s Arco Desert, when a prototype reactor sustained a nuclear chain reaction, becoming the…

BY YUE STELLA YU AND  KRISTEN HWANG On Nov. 3, Californians will vote on 14 statewide ballot measures on environment, taxation, election, housing and healthcare. For months, interest groups sponsoring ballot initiatives spent heavily on ad blitzes and signature gathering to get on the ballot, but some agreed to withdraw high-profile proposals after striking deals with state leaders or other…

(The following was posted on social media on Monday, July 27, concerning Mariposa County’s closure of the homeless facility known to the community as Connections.) Hello, everyone. As a heads up, I was informed that Connections permanently closed today at 5:00 p.m. Connections was operated by The Alliance for Community Transformations, and the program was…

Over 250K total illegal immigrants on CA, NJ, NV, PA voter rolls By Katy Grimes, July 25, 2026 In a July 16, 2026 letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (and similar letters to officials in New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania), DHS stated that a review of publicly available voter…

Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears BY RYAN SABALOW The grizzly bear on California’s flag went extinct a century ago in the Golden State. Now, a group of tribes and environmentalists is urging the Legislature to study whether it’s…

This mid-election manipulation by the democratic Attorney General goes beyond neutral summarization as required by statute By Megan Barth, July 21, 2026 4:28 pm (The California Globe) California Attorney General Rob Bonta faces accusations of rigging the ballot language for Proposition 39, the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, just months before the…