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All of these details must be known before federal dollars are to be allocated to the sinking ship of California.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 2:58 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Now it is the LA Firefighters union blasting the incompetent city officials. In the past trucks and firefighters were pre-deployed in danger areas when Santa Ana winds caused extreme fire danger. They were not pre-deployed this time because that would have required overtime pay, which the department did not have in its budget due to Mayor Bass' budget cuts.
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Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 1:29 pm By: Conservative Voter

Newsom and Bass have badly failed the people of California and Los Angeles and need to go. Hopefully they will both be recalled and removed from office.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 1:18 pm By: Rino Hunter

I know where BC Industrial Park South is.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 12:52 pm By: Van Zant

Well BB, I wish someone, anyone, would "beat that horse like a rented mule" on my behalf. Everyone is afraid to challenge the city because they figure they may need a favor some day...and that includes the lawyers. Silence makes all complicit. One council member has said to a citizen: "If u dont like the way we run the govt then hire a lawyer."
Note... no attempt to do right by a citizen in need. Why? Because they are all rubber stamps for the City Manager who does their thinking for them.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:52 am By: Washingtonian

I've observed there is a lot of corruption at the federal, state AND local levels.

I thought we established an industrial park so we would not have industry next to our houses (or in place of them) but might have it somewhere. Munition factory? Sounds like a great place to get a job. Gun manufacturing would be good, too. I might even apply for any such openings if they were here. Maybe some of my family members could stay home instead of being forced to leave. But no, our choice is make do here or go somewhere else.

I'll continue to pray for the people of California. They're not all crazy, and the ones that are crazy in many instances know not what they do.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:14 am By: Van Zant

Then build a munitions factory next to your house. Typically people like you find a black neighborhood and build it there, but sure you and the family won’t mind living next to it. Trust me. You’ll love it!

Btw-Your attack on the people of California is disgusting.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 6:25 am By: Big Bob

Well, NO, it is climate alarmism that has already increased our insurance rates by use of their scam computer models for setting rates instead of actual facts. For years, property insurance rates were based on solid fact, the record of past losses. Some years ago, the insurance companies conned North Carolina to let them use computer models instead. Computer models are digital alchemy where whoever sets them up can get whatever result they want by the way they design their model. This is a very crooked system that vastly overcharges eastern North Carolina. Since this scam was launched, losses have continued to follow the historical pattern, but the insurance cokmpanies are still allowed to overcharge us based on that fake computer model scheme. Climate alarmism is their excuse for using the crooked computer models.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 8:31 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

And now?

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By: Big Bob

Climate change will increase all our insurance rates.
Duh

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 10:02 pm By: Big Bob

All of this Democrat bungling on the Los Angeles wildfires is going to hit all of us.

Take insurance. All insurance companies buy "reinsurance" to back them up on major losses from companies like Swiss Re. These reinsurance companies are going to get soaked in Los Angeles, and will raise their rates to the insurance companies we buy from in North Carolina. That will raise our premiums. The companies with heavy direct exposure to Los Angeles will also probably try to increase their rates in other states to cover their Los Angeles losses.

THen consider all of the mortgages on houses that have gone up in smoke. THey are not likely to be paid and the collateral is now greatly reduced, being now only the land. Some already shaky financial insitutions with a lot of Los Angeles mortgage expsoure may go under from this and that may set up a chain reaction with other financial institutions.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

An illegal alien tries to burn down their city, and the nitwit Democrats in LA won't cooperate on deporting him from their sancuary city? That's an outrage. It is a good thing that new Border Czar Tom Homan will be on the job in a week, and is not afraid to enforce the federal criminal law that makes it a felony to harbor illegal aliens. He has said he is not afraid to start sending liberal politicians to jail if they defy that law. America needs what Tom Homan is bringing. Lock them up.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 5:56 pm By: borderhawk