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The California taxman wants add to taxes on space travel on top of taxing land, buildings, businesses, income, transportation and the air we breathe.

Tesla stock plunged in after-hours trading Wednesday as the all-electric car maker dropped by over 5 percent following revelations that it spent $622.4 million in the last 90 days in an all-out effort to launch its Model 3 sedan.

Puerto Rico’s world-record $116 billion bankruptcy filing represents a massive liability risk for auditors who will likely demand that highly-indebted states — such as Connecticut, Illinois and California — disclose more liabilities, write down assets, and curtail debt issues.

The media giants wanted to avoid a long writers’ strike that would make them more irrelevant, as creatively self-produced media content increasingly becomes available on YouTube and Instagram.

The quarterly CSUF 2017 Economic Forecast predicts that Orange County may already be at full employment, while Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties are approaching full employment.

Puerto Rico is set to file the largest public sector bankruptcy in history after vulture capitalist hedge funds that bought big pieces of the island’s $73 billion in defaulted debt for pennies-on the-dollar refused to take $24 billion haircut.

The California State Auditor issued a scathing report last week alleging that University of California President and former Obama Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano raised tuitions while her office hid $175 million.

The San Francisco Examiner reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have been negotiating with the San Francisco Unified School District for almost a year to open a new charter school in America’s most liberal city.

Fortune Magazine just identified Google and Facebook as the two sophisticated U.S.-based tech companies whose employees were swindled out of $100 million by a Lithuanian hacker in the last three years.

The Democrat-controlled California legislature held its first hearing Wednesday on the state adopting a single-payer health care system, nationalizing $287 billion of health care spending for 24 million residents.

The California Department of Water Resources has finally released two engineering reports that reveal Oroville Dam’s spillways cannot be fully repaired before the next rainy season.

Governor Jerry Brown cut a deal to pass his huge SB-1 gas tax increase through the state legislature by allowing big rig truckers to keep older and more polluting diesel trucks on California roads.

President Donald Trump’s power to appoint a majority of the Federal Trade Commission’s members and the agency’s Chairman may usher in aggressive enforcement of anti-trust laws against several Silicon Valley tech giants.

The international “March for Science” appears to have re-branded Earth Day, casting “social justice” as “science.”

Highway 101 is closed between Mendocino and Humboldt counties, after a second landslide cut the road through at least Friday, according to Caltrans.

Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has introduced a motion to end oil drilling and production near public places in a measure that could kill America’s next oil and gas fracking boom.

Reuters has found that more than 15 percent of Facebook’s U.S. staff are immigrants employed through H-1B temporary work visas.

Facebook, Inc. is encouraging its employees, and the workers at its outsourced labor contractors, to walk out on International Workers’ Day — May Day — and join unions, communists and Black Bloc enforcers in protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has allocated 100 percent water deliveries to Central Valley water districts for the first time in a decade, as the 80-degree weather this weekend causes risk of rapid snowmelt flooding.

There are now 30 companies testing 202 self-driving cars on California’s public roads, following a decision by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to license Apple Inc. to begin testing 3 self-driving sport utility vehicles (SUVs).

U.S. Geological Survey issued new reports stating that cyclical drought areas in California could be relieved by purifying the vast amounts of underground brackish (salty) water.

Advertisers are increasingly skeptical of using Facebook messages to connect to the public, even after Facebook took credit last week for squashing a couple of large spammer networks using fake accounts to generate automated bot “detection systems” and “friend” requests.

Oroville Dam’s spillway was forced to reopen at maximum flow as over 50,000 cubic feet per second of water careened into the lake and weather scientists warned of an impending 7 to 10-day heatwave that could cause flooding from an accelerated snowmelt.

With Elon Musk tweeting that ‘Tesla Semi’ all-electric big-rig tractors will debut in September, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s members that make up to $1,200 a day, face their first existential threat after dominating West Coast ports for 80-years.

With the Sierra Nevada mountains buried in a record snowpack, and new storms rolling in, the hot ticket for campers this year is a tour of California’s deserts, which are experiencing a fantastic superbloom of desert flowers after receiving almost twice their average rainfall.

California’s Northern Sierras have set an all-time record of 89.7 inches of precipitation for the 2016-7 year, as new storms are about to push the record higher.

With the rollback of the Obama Administration’s Net Neutrality almost complete, the Internet Association issued a manifesto to the now Republican-dominated FCC stating they intend to fight to bring back politicized regulations they worked so hard to implement.

Although Apple claims its fingerprint scanner is 5 times more secure than a typical 4-digit passcode, security researchers claim they have developed a set of fake MasterPrints that demonstrate criminal intruders could access 65 percent of fingerprint scanners.

With water rising at 15,000 feet per second behind Oroville Dam and two weeks of heavy rain, winds and snow about to be unleashed, a respected geologist is warning that the crumbling of Oroville Dam’s spillway is due to the use of structurally flawed rock.

Tesla stock jumped by 3 percent on April 10 to pass Ford and GM as America’s most valuable auto maker in just 14 years.

The North American soccer ruling body will announce Monday that the United States, Mexico and Canada will make a bid to host jointly the FIFA 2026 World Cup.

With Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to replace Antonin Scalia as a Justice of Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), he may immediately have an impact on a Second Amendment case from California, plus a long docket of government authority cases.

Liberal digital media companies are threatened by the policies they support, as a growing wave of leftist blog writers resorting to unionization threatens these companies’ survival.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) asked a San Francisco federal judge on April 7 to compel Google to provide detailed data regarding systemic gender pay discrimination.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been 43,485 laboratory confirmed cases of the Zika virus in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories.

The Cadiz Water Project will soon produce enough Mojave Desert groundwater to serve the needs of 400,000 people in Southern California, thanks to President Donald Trump’s Department of Interior reversing his predecessor’s stall tactics.