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Assisted Suicide Back From The Dead
Physician-assisted suicide has returned to California’s political agenda. After years off the table, the issue gained new life in the wake of Brittany Maynard’s high-profile decision to end her life. Maynard, 29, an assisted-suicide activist living in Oregon, advertised her impending death as a dignified response to the “aggressive” form of terminal brain cancer that left her […]
VIDEO: CA Law Driving Egg Prices Higher?
“Taxifornia” author James Lacy explains to Fox Business’s Stuart Varney how a California law could drive up the prices of eggs. Also discussed is the state’s potential mileage fee for drivers.
A Short History of Proposition 13
(Note from the author): Proposition 13, the 1978 property tax measure, continues to be in the news in California with talk of reforms in some quarters. Just this week, the Public Policy Institute of California polled some issues related to Prop 13. The poll found that 66% of likely voters found Prop 13 to be […]
SF Gun Case May Be Heading For Supreme Court
More than a dozen Second Amendment groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a high-profile challenge to a San Francisco gun-control measure. Led by the Firearms Policy Coalition, gun groups say the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision to uphold San Francisco’s safe-storage law. Under the ordinance implemented in 2007, the city […]
How paid sick leave can be healthy for pensions
President Obama said during his State of the Union address last week that 43 million workers have no paid sick leave, forcing “too many parents to make the gut-wrenching choice between a paycheck and a sick kid at home.” The president wasn’t talking about government employees. Most of them not only have paid sick leave, […]
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Taking the Right Fast Track on Trade
One aim of President’s Obama’s trip to Asia is coming to agreement on a proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. To enhance that prospect, the President has asked that Congress resurrect “fast-track” trade negotiation authority, which puts trade agreements to up-or-down votes, with no amendments. Without fast-track authority, such negotiations make little headway, because, as Peter […]
Mercy and Liberty
March is Women’s History Month. But virtually ignored is one woman who played a central role in American history—Mercy Otis Warren—who died 200 years ago this October. Termed “The Conscience of the American Revolution” and called a genius by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Mercy Warren was a leading force behind our freedom. Sister of […]
Some Old Wisdom on Politics
America’s so-called public servants have supported ethically questionable policies, picked our pockets and eroded our rights. Yet they simply pretend that fact away, tar opponents for everything and pitch themselves as America’s unifiers. That is breathtakingly mendacious. In sharp contrast to their rhetoric, the competition to control government to help friends out of others’ pockets […]
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Happy Holidays from California Political Review!
As the year ends, the editors at California Political Review would like to thank our loyal readers for visiting our site, and wish you all happy holidays and a great New Year. In 2014, CPR’s readership continued to grow. Since we started the site three years ago, we have published and republished hundreds of articles. […]
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Christmas California-style
Christmas Tree at California Adventure, Disneyland. Christmas Tree at Fashion Island, Newport Beach, credit Kevin Labianco, Flickr Creative Commons. Christmas Tree in front of State Capitol Building, Sacramento. Christmas Tree at Fairmont Hotel lobby, San Francisco. Merry Christmas!
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Police Face New Rules When Seizing Money From Drug Suspects
As reported by the Orange County Register: Local police are scrambling to fill the financial hole left in their drug-fighting resources by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to stop allowing them to take cash and property from suspected dealers without warrants or convictions.Holder’s decision is limited to federal asset forfeiture rules. And for regional […]
Regulation of Uber, Lyft Thrown Into Question by California DMV
As reported by the Sacramento Bee: California’s burgeoning efforts to regulate ride-for-hire companies like Uber and Lyft have reached a fork in the road after the Department of Motor Vehicles issued an advisory that, in mandating commercial registration, threatens to upend the companies’ business model. Conceived as an alternative to taxicabs, firms like Uber, Lyft […]
Drone Carrying Meth Falls Near Border
As reported by the U-T San Diego: A small aerial drone crashed about two miles from the U.S. border in Mexico carrying several pounds of methamphetamine, Mexican police said Wednesday. The discovery at a shopping mall parking lot in Tijuana, within walking distance of the U.S. border crossing, raises the prospect of a new, high-tech […]
California Gold Miners Score Win Over State
As reported by Dan Walters at the Sacramento Bee: California’s 21st century gold miners have scored a second major victory over state efforts to restrict – or ban – them from searching for the precious metal in rivers and streams on federally owned land, such as national forests. On Monday, San Bernardino County Judge Gilbert Ochoa, […]
Possible Successors to California Sen. Barbara Boxer
The Sacramento Bee details a relatively long list of potential candidates to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer, who will retire when her term ends in 2016. The list includes such names as Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Kamala Harris and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: California Sen. Barbara Boxer’s announcement today not to seek a fifth term has […]
