Daily Business Report: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Newsom promised real progress on mental health with CARE Court. Here’s what the numbers show
By Marisa Kendall, Jocelyn Wiener And Erica Yee | CalMatters
Gov. Gavin Newsom stepped up to a lectern on a March day three years ago and proposed a new solution to one of the state’s most difficult problems: How to help the thousands of Californians sleeping on the streets while suffering from severe mental illness.
After all, he said, everything the state has done before has failed. One of the state’s prior attempts — a treatment referral program called Laura’s Law – helped just 218 people during the 2018-19 fiscal year, he said.
“That certainly is not demonstrable progress,” Newsom said. His new program would be different.
California ‘Green Accounting’ Rule on CO2 Can Cost Companies Nationwide Billions, With No Benefit to Environment
By Kevin Stocklin | The Daily Signal
California is leading the resistance against President Donald Trump’s deregulation agenda with new rules that will force companies operating in the state to produce audited reports on their carbon dioxide emissions, and analysts say these rules may soon apply to companies throughout the United States.
California is preparing to implement two laws, SB 253 and SB 261, which would require companies operating in the state to monitor and report their CO2 emissions, as well as those of their suppliers and customers. These rules, originally passed in 2023, are similar but broader in scope than the mandate that was imposed nationwide by the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Biden administration, but which was effectively canceled under the current Trump administration.
California’s so-called green accounting mandate “sets the U.S. standard for climate-related disclosures and has the potential to reach every part of a company’s value chain,” Sidley, a global law firm, stated. The mandate would also align America’s climate accounting rules with those of the European Union.
The Progressive Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes
By Victor Davis Hanson | The Blade of Perseus
American left-wing heroes are proving to be a creepy bunch.
So what do some of the most renowned “resistance” left-wing heroes have in common other than shared hatred of conservative America?
They are either criminals, pathological liars, or self-described performance-art victims.
Take Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the current face of progressive resistance to the enforcement of federal immigration law.
No one questions that Garcia had previously received deportation orders before he was re-arrested by ICE.
