California Insider

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California, as the wealthiest and most populated state in the nation, carries many leading roles in policy making, economic growth, cultural influences and technology development. California Insider, hosted by Siyamak Khorrami with The Epoch Times Southern California, showcases leaders and professionals across the state with inside information about trending topics and critical issues. Our mission is to inform California residents through the experiences and knowledge of our guests.

  1. This California Winemaker Says Forced Membership Fees Could Reach Any Industry | Kate Griffith

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    This California Winemaker Says Forced Membership Fees Could Reach Any Industry | Kate Griffith

    California’s wine industry is already under pressure, and in Santa Barbara County, wineries now face another cost. Since April 2025, businesses that sell wine directly to customers have been required to pay a 1 percent fee on those sales. The fee funds a private trade association that wineries are also required to join, with no option under the current county rule to opt out of either the payment or the membership. Similar requirements have already taken hold in other California wine regions, and for some businesses, that has raised a bigger question about how far this kind of arrangement could reach. Flying Goat Cellars owners Kate Griffith and Norman Yost, along with Goldwater Institute attorney Adam Shelton, explain why their small Lompoc winery is now the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Santa Barbara County. Griffith says the outcome could matter well beyond wine, and Shelton lays out the legal argument behind the case. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    35 min
  2. Could California’s Wealth Tax Reach Beyond Billionaires? | Josh Rauh

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    Could California’s Wealth Tax Reach Beyond Billionaires? | Josh Rauh

    California voters will decide this November whether to impose a one-time wealth tax on the state’s roughly 200 billionaires, a measure pitched by supporters as narrow and temporary. But some high-net-worth Californians are not waiting to see whether it passes. Several prominent founders and investors have already moved, reduced California ties, or shifted assets ahead of the proposal’s Jan. 1 residency date. Supporters say the tax would directly apply only to the wealthiest sliver of residents. Not everyone in its path is convinced the one-time label will hold. Joshua Rauh, professor of Finance at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and senior fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, argued the exodus carries costs well beyond the billionaires themselves. He sat down with “California Insider” to explain what is written into the measure that has some of the state’s wealthiest residents preparing for it as if it will not stop at one time. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    33 min
  3. Why the CCP Is Targeting an American Performing Arts Company | Steve Lance

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    Why the CCP Is Targeting an American Performing Arts Company | Steve Lance

    Shen Yun is an American performing arts company that sells out venues worldwide. Before shows, bomb threats come in. Theaters get swept. Tour buses need overnight security to prevent sabotage. Incidents have been reported across the United States, including California. The question is why what investigators describe as a foreign government campaign keeps reaching an American company on American soil. A separate but related track runs through federal court. A California-based Chinese agent was caught by the FBI attempting to bribe IRS officials into revoking Shen Yun’s nonprofit status. Investigators say that the case is one documented node in a campaign our guests describe as escalating. Steve Lance, executive producer at Sincere Pictures, and Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Info Center, join Levi’s son Lucas, a principal dancer with Shen Yun, and musician Rachel Chen to walk through what the investigation found and what the documentary “Unbroken” documents in full. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    38 min

  4. 25 giu

    Why California Election Results Keep Shifting After Election Night | Mike Gatto

    California residents watched election night results flip over the days that followed. Why does that keep happening? The shift doesn’t happen the same way everywhere. It happens in California in ways that are specific, legal, and largely invisible to the people watching the results come in. Mike Gatto is a former California state assemblymember who voted against ballot harvesting when the law was first proposed. He joins the show to explain what’s actually driving California’s post-election shifts, and why the trust problem may be harder to fix than the fraud question. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    39 min
  5. California's Seniors Can't Keep Pace With the Cost of Housing | Rishi Kumar

    21 giu

    California's Seniors Can't Keep Pace With the Cost of Housing | Rishi Kumar

    Across California, homelessness among older adults is rising, and it increasingly includes seniors who don't fit the public image of who becomes homeless. Some are losing housing for the first time late in life, after decades of steady work and stable housing. A citizen petition is trying to put a sweeping property tax exemption for homeowners age 60 and older on the statewide ballot, while San Diego County has tested a much smaller rental subsidy aimed at the same problem locally. One reaches for a sweeping fix, the other for something narrower, and neither has been tried at full scale yet. Rishi Kumar, a Silicon Valley tech executive and former Saratoga City Council member, is leading the signature drive for the statewide petition. San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson helped advance the county's rental subsidy pilot for older adults at risk of homelessness. Both explain what is pushing these seniors toward homelessness, and how hard either fix is to deliver. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    37 min
  6. California Long COVID Patients Are Waiting 6 Months to See a Doctor | Susanna Zaraysky

    18 giu

    California Long COVID Patients Are Waiting 6 Months to See a Doctor | Susanna Zaraysky

    Long COVID patients in California are waiting up to six months to see a specialist, if they can find one still accepting new patients. Clinics across the state are full. This is despite a 2024 state law. In September 2024, Bill AB 3119 cleared both chambers of the California Legislature without a single dissenting vote and was signed into law. This law requires the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Physician Assistant Board to consider including, in their continuing education requirements for the licensees specified above, a course on infection-associated chronic conditions, including, but not limited to, long COVID. The California Medical Board has not publicly discussed the issue since the bill was enacted into law. Its position: Each physician should choose the continuing education appropriate to their patients. For patients who cannot work, cannot sleep, and cannot find a trained provider, that position has a cost. In this episode, we sit down with Susanna Zaraysky, the California resident who pushed AB 3119 through the Legislature after spending months unable to find a doctor trained to treat her. We also discuss with Dr. Monica Gandhi, professor of Medicine at UCSF, what it would take to close the treatment gap. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    40 min
  7. How Is AI Changing LA Courtrooms, and Where’s a Billion Dollars in Mansion Tax Money Going? | Avi Sinai

    15 giu

    How Is AI Changing LA Courtrooms, and Where’s a Billion Dollars in Mansion Tax Money Going? | Avi Sinai

    Eviction cases in Los Angeles are now arriving in court with motions written by AI. In some cases, tentative rulings have also come back citing cases that don’t exist, errors that federal courts are now sanctioning on a near-weekly basis. Beyond the courtroom, Measure ULA has collected close to a billion dollars over its first two and a half years, and attorney Avi Sinai says the eviction defense funding it provides is reaching a wider range of tenants than many would expect. Sinai, who represents landlords across Los Angeles, explains what it looks like when AI-written filings and AI-assisted rulings show up in the same case, and where the mansion tax money is actually landing once a case reaches court. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    36 min
  8. Two Refineries Closed. Where Is California's Gas Coming From Now? | C.J. Nord | Skip York

    11 giu

    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 full impact of that gap has not been made public. The supply chain California now depends on runs through foreign refineries that are themselves struggling to source crude through a Strait of Hormuz operating at less than half its normal capacity. Prices at the pump have already risen more than a dollar per gallon, and wholesale costs have climbed faster still. The next wave has not reached the street yet. C.J. Nord, Founder of Supply Chains for Good, and Skip York, Senior Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist at Turner, Mason & Company and Nonresident Fellow at the Baker Institute, have been watching this from inside the supply chain. *Views expressed in this video/article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of California Insider.

    41 min
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California, as the wealthiest and most populated state in the nation, carries many leading roles in policy making, economic growth, cultural influences and technology development. California Insider, hosted by Siyamak Khorrami with The Epoch Times Southern California, showcases leaders and professionals across the state with inside information about trending topics and critical issues. Our mission is to inform California residents through the experiences and knowledge of our guests.

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    The Epoch Times
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  • Anni di attività
    2022 - 2026
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