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San Francisco’s Political Leadership Has Squandered a Fortune
In 2009, San Francisco’s municipal budget totaled $6.5 billion — $8.6 billion in today’s dollars, adjusted for inflation and population. San Francisco’s budget for 2019 is an eye-popping $12.2 billion, a 10 percent increase just since 2018. The city has failed to match this staggering budget growth with a similar increase in capital investment or services, […]
California’s Troubled Recycling System Takes Another Hit
California’s already-troubled recycling system took another blow this month with the closure of Ontario-based rePlanet, which operated 284 recycling centers, the most of any recycling company in the state. But despite complaints from environmentalists about 2 million recyclable containers a day being thrown away in the Golden State and from consumer advocates upset that state residents are losing $25 million in […]
Housing California Doesn’t Have to be So Hard
When the first new home in the Centennial housing development goes on sale in 2021 it will have been 27 years since the project was submitted for local approval. That’s over a quarter century, well more than two decades. It’s a full generation, or six college graduations. And, for many, it’s nearly half a lifetime. […]
California’s Density Delusion
The ability for American workers to enjoy middle class lifestyles has been eroding for decades. Conventional explanations abound. American industry in the immediate aftermath of World War II was uniquely unscathed, and with a near monopoly on global manufacturing, was able to pass much of their ample profits on to workers. It wasn’t until the […]
Don’t Blame Proposition 13 For High Building Fees
Another week, another lie about Proposition 13. Recall that last week this column burst the bubble on the myth that schools are “starved” for revenue. This week’s narrative from the Prop. 13 opponents is that California’s high fees for building homes and commercial property is due to Proposition 13 denying local governments the ability to […]
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Death by Ecology: Killing California … God’s Best Green Deal
[An excerpt from a forthcoming book] So you think the Green New Deal isn’t going to happen? Well, California is leading the way — good[?] intentions on the road to hell? Here’s an autopsy of the Green policies killing California and identifying the killers. For 15,000 years, millions of human beings migrated to California. It […]
We Raise Taxes, Nothing Improves
When California’s gasoline tax went up a few weeks ago, there was a flurry of articles about how state motorists now pay the highest such tax in the country and how gasoline here typically costs $1 a gallon more than most other states. I wouldn’t mind paying more if I could boast that we have […]
Things Aren’t so Bad for California Under the Electoral College
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, thinks that populous coastal states like California and New York are being done a grave disservice by the Electoral College. Warren recently bemoaned the fact that presidential candidates ignore these populous, but safely blue, states in favor of battleground states. That’s why she thinks we should supersede the Electoral College with […]
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Poll: Trump’s approval rating hits highest point of presidency
President Trump‘s approval rating has surged to the highest level of his presidency, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey, which was released Sunday, found that 47 percent of registered voters approve of the job Trump is doing in the White House, a figure that represents a 5-point increase from April. Read full […]
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Los Alamitos Show Choir Named National Grand Champions
Los Alamitos’ Sound FX Choir “strives to achieve the highest level of choral excellence” … and recently they did just that by earning 1st place and the title of Grand Champion at Show Choir Nationals. Sound FX is no stranger to success, having been named Grand Champions at over 175 competitions, including nine National Grand Championship […]
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Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker Make Fundraising Stops in California
Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, both running for the up-for-grabs Democratic presidential nomination, made campaign stops in Los Angeles Wednesday. Warren spoke about the corruption in government and rebuilding the middle class, while Booker, at a separate event, spoke on gun violence and social activism. The Republican National Committee released the following response to […]
Earthquake Early-Warning Sensors Being Expanded in California
An infusion of federal funding will help expand or strengthen the U.S. Geological Survey’s earthquake early-warning system around Lake Tahoe, Death Valley, Mammoth and Bishop. The University of Nevada, Reno, which runs the seismic network in eastern California, will use $1 million from the USGS to upgrade obsolete seismic sensors in Death Valley and the […]
Tuition-free college program for working Bay Area adults
East Palo Alto Mayor Lisa Gauthier always wanted to finish her bachelor’s degree, but as a single mother of three, finding the time and money to go back to school seemed impossible. Then she found a surprising way to do it — for free. On Thursday, Gauthier, 54, crossed the graduation stage and received her […]
The end of Cabernet in Napa Valley?
Cabernet Sauvignon grapes make America’s favorite wine, and they are the lifeblood of Napa Valley, our country’s most famous wine region. Cabernet accounts for 65% of the grapevines grown in Napa, where last year the crop reached a record $1 billion in gross value. But Cabernet, like all of California agriculture, is under threat. As […]
New Lawsuit Challenges California’s Assault Weapons Ban
A gun-rights group sued Thursday to block California from enforcing its assault weapons ban, contending it violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The lawsuit was the latest among gun advocacy and lobbying groups to challenge California’s firearms laws, which are among the strictest in the country, and comes after a recent series of […]
