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LIST: Texas lawmakers tell us what they are doing to fix the state’s electric system Updated:  Tags:  TEXAS – State lawmakers are pouring through more than 200 proposed bills in Austin that would bring change to Texas’ electricity market. While almost all of the proposed laws focus on requiring power generators to maintain their plants to avoid another massive outage like we saw in the winter freeze, one bill would make wholesale and variable rate electric plans (like the plans sold by ...

Alfred Dillwyn Knox is not a widely recognised name, but his career as one of the UK’s leading cryptologists and codebreakers spanned some 30 years, and two world wars. For much of that time he lived in Naphill, and was a well-known and congenial figure in the locality. Dilly, as he was known, was born in Oxford on July 23 July, 1884, the fourth of six children of the Revd Edmund Arbuthnott Knox and his first wife, Ellen French. He went to Eton College as a King’s Scholar, became “C...

On September 30, 2020, the California legislature passed SB 973, California’s pay equity data law. The law, codified under Government Code section 12999, requires certain employers with...

Photo by: Mike Damron – KPBS San Diego By Arturo Castañares Editor-at-Large A local governmental committee that has distributed over $200 million in tactical and surveillance equipment to police and fire agencies without public meetings and disclosures has now amended its charter to require itself to comply with state open meeting laws after a lawsuit filed by La Prensa San Diego exposed their secret meetings in December 2020. The Urban Area Working Group, known as UAWG, is a subcommittee o...

Print With Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley soon heading to the Orange County Board of Supervisors following a special election victory Tuesday, her city council colleagues are left to decide how to fill the remainder of her two-year term. About 5,908 ballots remained to be counted as of Thursday, according to the county’s Registrar of Voters. Still, figures showed Foley maintaining a strong lead with 43.7% of the vote, 12,837 ballots ahead of the next top vote-getter, Republican challenger for...

Staff Report The responsibilities, of the Office of the Attorney General, are to serve as legal counsel to all boards and agencies of state government, issue legal opinions when requested by the Governor, heads of state agencies, and other officials and agencies as provided by Texas statutes. The Texas AG sits as an ex-officio member of state committees and commissions and defends challenges to state laws and suits against both state agencies and individual employees of the State. Many Texans l...

In a low-profile but important new decision, San Luis Obispo Local Agency Formation Commission v. City of Pismo Beach, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2021) (Case No. B296968), the Second District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court decision and held that the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act (Gov. Code § 56000 et seq.) does not authorize a local agency formation commission (“LAFCO”) to require an indemnification agreement or to require the payment of attorney fees based on such an agreement. The case ar...

We seem to be returning to a semblance of the old normal, including CalPERS getting well-deserved public attention for its bad behavior, highlighted in a new lawsuit filed by former board member JJ Jelicic, which we’ve embedded at the end of this post. It’s short and very readable; slightly more than half the pages of the PDF are exhibits. CalPERS under its general counsel Matt Jacobs has more and more openly been taking the position that it is above the law. A slapdown is long overdue. Bo...

Wilk Addresses EDD Fraud During State Senate Hearing State Senator Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, spoke during a hearing to discuss his new bipartisan bill on the concealing of social security numbers by the Employment Development Department (EDD). In a Senate Labor Committee hearing on Monday, Wilk discussed a new bipartisan bill, introduced by Wilk and Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, regarding the restriction of the EDD’s continued use of social security numbers in outgoing mail. “Little about t...

Seyfarth Synopsis:  Headlining the number of employment-related bills California legislators introduced by the February 19th deadline are those that would extend COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave and provide other leaves and accommodations. After last years pandemic-caused truncation of the 2020 legislative session—in which the governor signed only 372 new laws, the fewest since 1967—many expected the introduction of a large number of bills. Yet "only" 1,560 bills were introduced�...