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Don’t Tax Independent Expenditures, Eliminate Candidate Donor Limits
The bill authored by Assemblyman Marc Levine (D-San Rafael) to tax independent expenditure campaign spending has a point, although the measure itself is likely to find resistance in both the halls of the legislature and in the courts. Levine’s goal is to see campaigns conducted by candidates who would be accountable for the political messages […]
Should Sex Offenders Have Rights Too?
The California Supreme Court recently ruled that the residency restrictions against sex offenders go against their constitutional rights. “Blanket enforcement of the residency restrictions against these parolees has severely restricted the incidence of homelessness among them, and hindered their access to medical treatment, drug and alcohol dependency services, psychological counseling and other rehabilitative social services […]
LAUSD Offer Worth $122,938 Per Year – Will They Strike Anyway?
LAUSD Offer Worth $122,938 Per Year – Will They Strike Anyway? By Ed Ring, executive director, California Policy Center “Our demands, they’re not radical. When did it become radical to have class sizes that you could actually teach in? When did it become radical to have staffing and to pay people back after eight years […]
Soda Tax Difficult to Swallow in Berkeley
The city of Berkeley, Calif., is finding it’s not so easy imposing a soda tax. Since the tax’s Jan. 1 imposition, retailers find it’s a burden changing prices for just one type of item in one city. Measure D, officially the City of Berkeley Sugary Beverages and Soda Tax, last November overwhelmingly was passed by 76 percent of […]
Whether Politicians Like It or Not Gasoline Is California’s Life Blood
The Field Poll reports that for the first time in seven years more California voters believe the state is moving in the right direction (50 percent) than feel it is on the wrong track (41 percent). Those living in coastal California are much more likely to have a positive outlook on our state’s future than […]
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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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ABAG claims $1.3 million embezzled
The “Association of Bay Area Governments” or “ABAG” is a nonprofit lobbying group that many Bay Area local governments pay big annual dues to, in order to coordinate their efforts to get more funding from Sacramento and Washington, D.C. ABAG, based in San Francisco, is not exactly a government agency, rather, it is like a […]
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Baseball’s Spring Training Getting Under Way
Players for California’s five Major League Baseball teams are in the process of reporting to their Spring Training camps all located in Arizona, where inter-league pre-season games for about four weeks will get under way starting March 3. Catcher Buster Posey returns to the World Champion San Francisco Giants camp in Scottsdale, Arizona as the […]
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Gun Rights Showdown: Sunnyvale Restrictions Upheld By Appeals Court
As reported in the San Jose Mercury News: Adding fresh ammo to the gun rights debate, a federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Sunnyvale’s law restricting high-capacity gun magazines, concluding local officials did not run afoul of the Second Amendment by trying to reduce gun violence. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the […]
High Court to Decide Whether Legislators Must Draw District Lines
As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle: The U.S. Supreme Court is about to dissect an obscure constitutional provision that could prohibit independent commissions from drawing district lines for congressional elections and reassign the task to partisan state legislatures — not just in Arizona, where the case originated, but in California as well. A broad […]
Assembly Democrats Want Real Estate Fees, Tax Credits for Affordable Housing
As reported by KQED: The leader of the state Assembly is unveiling an ambitious affordable housing proposal, one that could pump more than $600 million a year into development at the local level. Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) was joined Wednesday afternoon by a wide range of prominent Democrats in Los Angeles, including state Treasurer […]
Inglewood Approves NFL Stadium Plan, Increases Lead in Race to Bring a Team to L.A.
As reported by the Orange County Register: INGLEWOOD – The Inglewood City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s plans to build the world’s most expensive stadium at Hollywood Park. The council’s approval of the Hollywood Park Land Company’s plans to build a $1.86 billion, 80,000-seat, closed-roof stadium as part of a […]
Judge Rebukes Harris’ Effort to Access Group’s Donor Lists
Written by Steven Greenhut and published in the San Diego Union-Tribune: California Attorney General Kamala Harris has been in the news lately as the Democratic establishment’s anointed successor to Barbara Boxer, the U.S. senator who has announced her coming retirement. But a recent ruling by a federal court temporarily smacking down one of Harris’ decisions […]
