#history #news about #garbage in #California: Los Angeles used backyard incinerators
on 02026-08-31#PDF #FCC “Notice of Unlicensed Operation” on a #ham #radio band, addressed to a Jack Gerritsen, responding to “multiple complaints from licensees in the amateur radio service concerning an unlicensed radio station operating on 146.415 MHz in Los Angeles, #California and causing harmful interference to licensed operators in the amateur radio bands.” I’m curious whether there’s a public list of all of these? #communications #RF
on 02026-06-02#California minimum wage is US$16.90/hour. #economics #tourismm
on 02026-04-30#California sample driver’s license knowledge tests. #tourism
on 02026-04-22#Reason #video about what will happen with homemade “ghost” guns. The number of "ghost guns" (without serial numbers) recovered at #California #crime scenes went from 26 in 02015 to 167 in 02016, then doubled every year until 02019 (1623 guns), then leapt to 4671 in 02020 and 12388 in 02021, where it stabilized; the now-defunct Polymer 80 had sold 200k kits in California over the 6 years before the Supreme Court’s 02025 decision in Bondi v. Vanderstok. Outlines #Cody-Wilson and his arrest in Taiwan for paying for sex with a 16-year-old “who’d posed as a legal adult on a hookup app”. #Trump announced plans to ban gun ownership by transgender people. Talks about #Myanmar.
on 02026-04-15#politics #USA #California #human-rights
on 02026-04-14#video #toread about #California #politics over #ebikes (two-wheeled #EVs)
on 02026-02-24#San-Francisco, #California enacted a ban on parking RVs on the street for more than two hours, effective last November. “A large vehicle is defined as an RV, trailer, house car, mobile home, or any vehicle longer than 22 feet or taller than 7 feet.” Exemptions for up to a year are available to anyone living in their RV last May. #vanlife #politics
on 02026-02-24#Amazon #price-fixing lawsuit announcement from the #California attorney general doesn’t say “inflate” or “#inflation” anywhere. #news
on 02026-02-24#CNBC #news #video #toread about "vanlords" renting RVs to people experiencing “RV homelessness” (aka #vanlife) in #California with RVs in RV parks such as wehope.org’s Berryessa Supportive Parking, whose program manager Victoria Garibaldi says they have 86 RVs.
“As the Bay Area’s housing shortage intensifies[,] vehicle-based homelessness has more than doubled since 2019, forcing even full-time workers into makeshift homes on wheels. This desperation has fueled a predatory shadow market where “vanlords” rent out aging RVs to those with no other options. While cities crack down on street encampments and ban these illegal rentals, San Jose is testing a different path with the Berryessa Safe Parking site, one of California’s largest sanctioned lots with space for 86 RVs. CNBC’s Kate Rogers visits the site to explore how these communities provide a vital bridge to long-term housing.” Says 37% of “homeless people” in Santa Clara County are now sleeping in vehicles, up from 18% in 02019.
Garibaldi says many of the vanlords charge only US$500 to US$600 per month for their RVs, which sounds amazingly cheap for the #SFBA. San Jose enacted a law against renting RVs on city streets last year; last year they opened a second “safe parking site”, bringing the total (?) to 128 RVs; Berryessa Supportive Parking provides breakfast, dinner, bathrooms, laundry facilities, a community garden, and a dog park. Meanwhile, for-profit RV parks like Candlestick RV Park, managed by Tsin Fung, charge US$2500 per month for a parking space.
In SF, Mayor Lurie limited RV parking on public streets to two hours with new legislation last July, with a so-called “Large Vehicle Refuge Permit” exemption permit available.
on 02026-02-24Shuriken are prohibited since 02011 under #California Penal Code section 22410 (penal code part 6, title 3, division 9.) #politics
on 02026-01-12#California Coastal Commission wins #politics lawsuit against #Musk for #SpaceX, but he can refile. ““The concern is legitimate when a local body injects politics in its decision-making,” [Trump-appointed district judge Stanley] Blumenfeld told SpaceX attorney Tyler Welti. “I get the concern. But where is the harm?”” #Trump #space #California
on 02025-03-18#California Coastal Commission wins #politics lawsuit against #Musk for #SpaceX, but he can refile. ““The concern is legitimate when a local body injects politics in its decision-making,” [Trump-appointed district judge Stanley] Blumenfeld told SpaceX attorney Tyler Welti. “I get the concern. But where is the harm?”” #Trump #space #California
on 02025-03-18“She joined the majority on Thursday in rejecting the Defense Department’s application on behalf of Musk’s SpaceX to increase the number of satellite launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base from 36 to 50 per year.” #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space #California
on 02025-03-18Last October: “The suit pointed to comments made during last week’s public hearing by commissioners, who made note of Musk’s political involvement during this election. According to the suit, [#California Coastal] Commissioner Caryl Hart [wife of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart] noted SpaceX is led by someone who has “aggressively injected himself into the presidential race and made it clear what his point of view is.” Commissioner Gretchen Newsom added, “Right now Elon Musk is hopping around the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods and attacking FEMA while claiming his desire to help the hurricane victims with free Starlink access to the internet.”" #politics #Trump #Musk #SpaceX #space
on 02025-03-18SNCF wanted to build a high-speed rail system in #California but gave up and built it in #Morocco instead because of #USA #politics.
on 02024-08-06#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse, profiling HN user Sasha Zbrozek. #Housing-Accountability-Act
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse: the "Housing Accountability Act" (HAA), passed in 01990, enables the Housing and Community Development (HCD) (??) to suspend cities' zoning laws if they don't meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), which for the most part they don't, so tomorrow (Feb. 2) many cities get their laws thus suspended, called the "builder’s remedy". This has just happened in Santa Monica: “Santa Monica met 50% of their dramatically increased 2023 - 2031 housing requirements, including a 50% increase in the amount of low income housing approved over the previous 8 years — without a cent of public subsidy — in just one week. This also consists of several high-rise buildings taller than anything allowed in Santa Monica’s zoning code or city housing.” In the #SFBA only SF, Emeryville, Redwood City, Alameda City, and maybe Oakland will retain their zoning laws.
on 02023-02-01