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Two Refineries Closed. Where Is California's Gas Coming From Now? | C.J. Nord | Skip York
California's two major refineries closed within the past year. The state now imports twice the gasoline it did before. No replacement supplier has been identified. The modeling that would show the…
Why First-Time Buyers Can’t Find Homes Anymore in California | Tia Patterson
California’s housing costs are more than double the national average, and the inventory of homes people can actually afford to buy keeps shrinking. Hundreds of laws have been passed. The entry-level…
California Schools Face Major Enrollment Decline: What's Happening? | Gloria Romero
Over the past decade, California's K–12 enrollment has fallen by hundreds of thousands of students. Less than half of those still in the system can read at grade level. If fewer students are in the…
Where California’s Port Trucking Industry Stands Now | Robert Loya
Trucking companies that have served the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for decades are closing. Family-owned operations that built their businesses one truck at a time are being squeezed by…
What's Really Happening in California Prisons? | Amie Ichikawa
California's women's prisons house just under 4,000 people, and since the state's Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act (SB 132) took effect, 48 men have transferred into those facilities, a…
A Plan to Eliminate All of Catalina Island’s Deer Is Sparking Controversy
Catalina Island’s deer have been part of the island long enough that most residents have never known it without them. The Catalina Island Conservancy, which manages most of the island’s land, says…
LA’s New Streetlight Tax: Why Some Property Owners Could Pay Thousands | Jon Fleischman
Los Angeles property owners have until June 2 to vote on an assessment that would nearly quadruple what they currently pay for streetlights, a decision cities across California are increasingly…
The CCP's Influence Network Behind a California Mayor's Guilty Plea
Eileen Wang's guilty plea reads like a local story. The mayor of Arcadia agreed to her federal charges of acting as an illegal foreign agent for China.Joshua Philipp, senior journalist for The Epoch…
The Legal Loophole Pushing California Businesses Toward Closure | Taha Saleh
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was designed to give people with disabilities equal access to public life. In California, home to more ADA lawsuits than any other state, a legal loophole…
Mail-in Voting in California: Where Concerns Hold and Where They Don’t | Bob Page
Is California’s mail ballot system as exposed as critics suggest, or is the real story more complicated than what either side suggests?Every election cycle, the same concerns resurface: ballots…
California’s Vacancy Tax: What It Could Force Homeowners to Do If It Passes | Shane Harris
California cities are weighing taxes on non-primary homes to address housing shortages and mounting budget deficits. San Diego’s Measure A is one of them, with a vote coming this June and a $121…
Why California Is Losing Its Avocado Industry
The avocado most people buy at the grocery store was born in a Southern California backyard a hundred years ago. The industry that grew around it may not survive there much longer.California avocados…
Killed to Order | The China Conversation California Isn’t Having | Jan Jekielek
A transplant surgeon in China can source a matching heart in two weeks. In ethical medicine, how is that possible? Jan Jekielek, senior editor at Epoch Times and author of a recent bestseller on the…
What’s Really Happening Inside Iran Right Now | Siyamak Khorrami
The conflict in Iran reads very differently up close than it does from a distance. For most people watching from the outside, the story is incomplete.“California Insider” host Siyamak Khorrami grew…
California Ballot Measures: What Voters Can and Can’t Hold Them To | Matt Klink
California’s ballot is filling up with new tax measures this year, and many voters won’t know what they’re agreeing to until after they’ve voted.Some of these measures are framed as temporary or…
Behind the Alleged Ballot Petition Fraud in California
Paid signature gatherers are operating inside homeless encampments in San Francisco to collect ballot petition signatures for California’s November 2026 propositions. Video evidence captured on the…
LAPD Commander on What Keeps LA’s Homelessness Problem Going | Blake Chow
A large share of police calls in Los Angeles can be traced back to homelessness, at a time when departments are already short on officers. Behind each call is a mix of mental health crises,…
California’s Land, Water, and Fire: What’s Really Driving the Decisions
California’s water, land, and fire systems are, in many cases, driven by federal court orders from litigation decided decades ago, before current conditions existed. That distance between today’s…
California’s Oil Problem Is Bigger Than California
California’s push to phase out fossil fuels has accelerated the closure of the refineries that still supply fuel to its military bases, airports, and 40 million drivers. If the plan is to move away…
California’s Crime Numbers Are Down–Here’s What They Don’t Show
Crime in California is at some of its lowest levels in decades. So what explains what people are still seeing on the street every day? In this episode, Siyamak sits down with Magnus Lofstrom, senior…
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California Insider has published 300 episodes since January 2023, covering topics in Business News, Government.
California Insider is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 40m.
