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California in Focus

The podcast bringing you the most important stories out of California from TheCenterSquare.com. Join us as we dive into the top headlines and provide insightful commentary and analysis.

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Republicans, Chevron, Governors of AZ and NV Ring Alarm on Newsom Gas Proposal Oct 12, 2024

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The Democratic governor of Arizona, Republican governor of Nevada, Chevron, and California Republicans are ringing the alarm on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's steadily advancing refinery regulations, saying they'll reduce energy supplies and raise prices. Newsom called a special legislative session to require refineries to maintain more than two weeks' worth of inventory, and give the state authority over when they are allowed to shut down for repairs. With California refining capacity declining faster than demand for gasoline, the state's remaining, aging refineries - which supply Nevada and Arizona as well - constantly operate at full capacity, making frequent repairs and maintenance both necessary and disruptive.

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CA School Taught 5th Graders Gender Identity, Had Them Teach it to Kindergartners Oct 11, 2024

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A California school district allegedly had a teacher teach a lesson and read a gender identity book to fifth graders, then have those fifth graders watch a video version of the book with their kindergarten mentees and teach them the lesson they just learned. Outraged Encinitas parents are now suing the school district and demanding a notification and opt-out program for all objectionable content; currently content notifications and opt-outs are only available for the health unit.

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Sacramento Pilot-Project Welfare Program Bars Whites, Asians, Hispanics Oct 05, 2024

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A new Sacramento unrestricted cash welfare pilot program that will distribute $725 per month to selected low-income parents or guardians of black or indigenous children allows individuals to apply regardless of immigration status. The program does not provide an option for parents of white, Asian, or Hispanic children, leading critics to wonder why the county adopted racial restrictions when a needs-based program would be more fair and less subject to legal scrutiny.

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Caifornia’s Newsom Reverses Course to Allow Nation’s First Cannabis Cafes Oct 04, 2024

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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill legalizing "cannabis cafes" and allowing commercial events there. The American Cancer Society condemned the law, noting secondhand marijuana smoke is often just as bad, if not worse, than cigarette smoke. California banned indoor smoking at entertainment venues in 1998, making this bill a major reversal in state policy. It's unclear if the law will allow individuals to smoke marijuana mixed with tobacco, as is the custom in Amsterdam, the city whose "coffeeshops" (cafes that sell cannabis and coffee) the bill references as a model.

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California Adopts Plastic Bag Ban, Files Lawsuit Claiming Recycling a ‘PR Stunt' Sep 28, 2024

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After decades of promoting plastics recycling, California adopted a total plastic shopping bag ban and filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil, claiming plastic recycling is a “public relations stunt.” With the state’s outbreak of fecal-transmitted hepatitis among homeless individuals correlated with the onset of the state’s first single-use plastic bag ban that required reusable plastic bags to be purchased for ten cents, the new complete ban could worsen the disease’s spread. In 2016, California voters passed a more limited plastic bag ban that required stores to sell reusable plastic bags, or paper bags, at checkout for ten cents instead of providing bags for free. State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, sponsored legislation to completely ban plastic bags after research found Californians’ plastic waste per capita increased 50% after the ban due to the use of much thicker bags to qualify as “reusable.”

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Adjusted Federal Jobs Data Contradicts Newsom’s Claims About Fast Food Jobs Sep 27, 2024

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While California Governor Gavin Newsom touted California’s fast food jobs growth in a Fox News opinion column Wednesday, seasonally adjusted federal employment data contradicts the governor’s claims, finding that overall fast food employment is down since the start of the year. The $20 per hour fast food minimum wage is credited by businesses as driving cuts on available shifts and employment, and even store closures.

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As California Homeless Count Rises to 186K, Newsom Faces Call for Accountability Sep 21, 2024

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As California’s homeless population rises to a CalMatters-estimated 186,000, Republican legislators are demanding that Gov. Gavin Newsom sign a bill requiring the state to track homelessness spending and outcomes. AB 2903 by Assemblymember Josh Hoover, R-Folsom, passed without any opposing votes, and would require any “state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs” to report “cost and outcome data for each program the agency or department administers” to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness. ICH would then be required to make those costs and outcomes available to the public.

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Chipotle Pilots New Line of Robots in California After $20 per Hour Wage Sep 20, 2024

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Chipotle Mexican Grill announced it is piloting an automatic avocado peeler and pit remover at one California location, and an automatic bowl and salad machine at another as higher minimum wages increase relative yields from automation. Earlier this year, Chipotle raised its prices up to 7% in California to account for the state’s new $20 per hour minimum wage for fast food employers. Chipotle says it invested $100 million across the two companies making specialized robots for its stores; given Chipotle says it takes staff 26 seconds to pit and peel each of the 129.5 million pounds of avocados it uses each year, an estimated two avocados per pound would mean the Autocado machine could save almost 1.9 million staff-hours per year, or just over 238,000 days of workers’ labor — that’s over $37 million per year at $20 per hour.

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California Considering Undocumented Immigrant Access to Cellphone Subsidies Sep 14, 2024

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The California Public Utilities Commision is voting later this month on whether to allow illegal immigrants to use the state’s cellphone subsidy program that makes most cellphone service plans either low cost or free, and self-fund and provide the additional federal subsidies undocumented immigrants are unable to qualify for. If adopted, the new plan would allow individuals to use Mexican voter registration cards, foreign passports, consular identification cards, or AB 60 California drivers licenses issued to individuals not legally in the state to access the subsidies.

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California Not Paying Released Inmates $200 Could Cost Taxpayers $5 Billion Sep 13, 2024

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San Francisco’s former district attorney is leading a class action lawsuit requiring the state to follow through on a 1973 statute signed into law by then-governor Ronald Reagan to pay prisoners who have served more than six months $200 upon their release as “gate money.” Including interest, the case could cost taxpayers $5 billion. With former SF DA Chesa Boudin, now Executive Director at UC Berkeley’s Criminal Law & Justice Center, estimating California releases approximately 30,000 prisoners each year, his case says the class action body “exceeds hundreds of thousands of individuals.” Boudin says the legislature’s statute was quite clear in providing $200 (worth almost $1,500 in current dollars when it first went into effect) to prisoners when they exit prison if they aren’t being transferred to federal prison or another state.

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