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Home Alone in a rich neighborhood, apparently. * Lifestyles of the Rich and the Armed — they’ve got mansions and you ought not rob them. [Daily Caller] * Colorado Governor pardons a grip of folks convicted of weed possession. We should have legalized and decrim’d blunts years ago, but a start is a start. [The Denver Post] * US-Russia relations may sour if Biden keeps up the Ukraine-based sanc...

In this Aug. 16, 2016, file photo, general population inmates walk in a line at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) For more than a year, a seven-person California commission has been quietly spearheading a massive effort to overhaul the thicket of criminal laws that make up the state penal code. Its ideas for 2022 are ambitious, including an eventual...

Fast-food workers drive though a McDonald’s restaurant demanding a for a $15 hourly minimum wage in East Los Angeles Friday, March 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022. Some of the laws ...

General-population inmates walk in a line at San Quentin State Prison in 2016. The state’s Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code is urging lawmakers to rethink strict sentencing rules of the past. SACRAMENTO — For more than a year, a seven-person California commission has been quietly spearheading a massive effort to overhaul the thicket of criminal laws that make up the state penal ...

Heading into 2022 — and a potential third year of the COVID-19 pandemic — California officials faced a familiar-feeling dilemma. Help businesses recover from an economic roller coaster by quashing burdensome new mandates? Or rescue workers with paid sick leave, higher wages and crackdowns on corporate bad behavior? Given the devastating effects of the last two years on both workers and busine...

In recent weeks, Democratic officials in New York and California have proposed legislation granting individual citizens the right to sue manufacturers of assault weapons and ghost guns. More aggressive action to curb gun violence is undoubtedly warranted. Openly subverting the will of federal courts is the wrong way to go about it. First proposed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, the effor...

New state animal abuse law doesn't go far enough, county officials say  Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette

New Year's 2022 will mark the first day of a slew of new laws for the Lone Star State. The 87th Texas Legislature approved 23 measures during its regular session, which ended in May. Here's a look at several of the bills becoming law in the new year. Senate Bill 23 It requires certain counties to hold elections before reducing the funding of a county's primary law enforcement agency or re-all...

Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022. Some of the laws such as abortion restrictions in New Hampshire or police reform measures passed in Illinois, Oregon and North Carolina address some of the most contentious issues of our time. ...

FILE – Fast-food workers drive though a McDonald’s restaurant demanding a for a $15 hourly minimum wage in East Los Angeles Friday, March 12, 2021. Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File) Minimum wa...