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Read about the new LA $30 minimum wage

Job Losses, Cancelled Projects Follows LA Passing $30 Minimum Wage

The City Council, operating as if in bubble that can’t be penetrated by real-world economic behavior, voted on May 23 to hike the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers from the current $17.28 (due to rise to $17.81 on July 1) for all workers to $30. If the raise ...
Commentary

Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates

Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air ...
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Read the latest on the Southern California wildfire recovery

How’s That Post-Fire Rebuild Going?

Shortly after she returned to Los Angeles after her Ghana junket, Bass assured her constituents she would clear “away red tape and bureaucracy to organize around urgency, common sense and compassion.” “We will do everything we can to get” fire victims “back home,” she said. A month later, she swore it ...
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Can San Franciscans finally overcome their fear of heights?

Like all California cities, San Francisco must comply with state mandates and has in response promised to create “more space for families, workers and the next generation of San Franciscans.” The city’s Housing Element Update is its guidebook for accommodating housing needs through 2031. To get there will require “rezoning to accommodate 36,200 additional units above ...
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The Spanish Power Outage Flu – Is California Next?

Energy journalist Robert Bryce assures us it is not. “California has already seen blackouts due to the weakening of its grid,” Bryce told PRI, “And no, it’s not too soon to speculate.” On the last Monday in April, “one of the worst” blackouts to ever hit Europe, the Associated Press reports, began ...
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Why California Needs Its Own DOGE

Why California Needs Its Own DOGE Originally published in Fresno Bee By Kerry Jackson READ MORE If any government were in desperate need of a DOGE effort, it’s California. The bloated budget, wasteful public works projects and inefficient government programs are all screaming for attention. The federal Department of Government Efficiency ...
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Read about the latest bill attacking worker freedom

Seeking to Override Voters, Sacramento Tries Again to Unionize Gig Workers

Assembly Bill 1340 has, as reported by Politico, “cleared its first hurdle … deepening a yearslong clash between organized labor and major California-based tech firms.” The “clash” was set off by Assembly Bill 5 in 2019, a predatory law that was a gift to organized labor that lusted for the membership ...
California

From bloated budgets, to wasteful spending: Why California needs its own DOGE

If any government were in desperate need of a DOGE effort, it’s California. The bloated budget, wasteful public works projects and inefficient government programs are all screaming for attention. The federal Department of Government Efficiency has become famous — and certainly infamous in some minds — for its efforts to ...
California

No way to run a homeless program

Last year’s count of the homeless population in both Los Angeles County and City showed a slight decrease, which is a small measure of progress. But the findings of recent audit of city-funded homelessness assistance programs suggests changes are needed in the local response if there is to be a ...
California

What Is Going On In Los Angeles? 

Another question comes to mind: Could Los Angeles be the next Detroit? At times, is seems it’s in a race with San Francisco to see which will be the first to reach a Motor City-like nadir. Due to its “serious financial headwinds,” the city is going to have to make cuts, ...
Blog

Read about the new LA $30 minimum wage

Job Losses, Cancelled Projects Follows LA Passing $30 Minimum Wage

The City Council, operating as if in bubble that can’t be penetrated by real-world economic behavior, voted on May 23 to hike the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers from the current $17.28 (due to rise to $17.81 on July 1) for all workers to $30. If the raise ...
Commentary

Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates

Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air ...
Blog

Read the latest on the Southern California wildfire recovery

How’s That Post-Fire Rebuild Going?

Shortly after she returned to Los Angeles after her Ghana junket, Bass assured her constituents she would clear “away red tape and bureaucracy to organize around urgency, common sense and compassion.” “We will do everything we can to get” fire victims “back home,” she said. A month later, she swore it ...
Blog

Can San Franciscans finally overcome their fear of heights?

Like all California cities, San Francisco must comply with state mandates and has in response promised to create “more space for families, workers and the next generation of San Franciscans.” The city’s Housing Element Update is its guidebook for accommodating housing needs through 2031. To get there will require “rezoning to accommodate 36,200 additional units above ...
Blog

The Spanish Power Outage Flu – Is California Next?

Energy journalist Robert Bryce assures us it is not. “California has already seen blackouts due to the weakening of its grid,” Bryce told PRI, “And no, it’s not too soon to speculate.” On the last Monday in April, “one of the worst” blackouts to ever hit Europe, the Associated Press reports, began ...
Blog

Why California Needs Its Own DOGE

Why California Needs Its Own DOGE Originally published in Fresno Bee By Kerry Jackson READ MORE If any government were in desperate need of a DOGE effort, it’s California. The bloated budget, wasteful public works projects and inefficient government programs are all screaming for attention. The federal Department of Government Efficiency ...
Blog

Read about the latest bill attacking worker freedom

Seeking to Override Voters, Sacramento Tries Again to Unionize Gig Workers

Assembly Bill 1340 has, as reported by Politico, “cleared its first hurdle … deepening a yearslong clash between organized labor and major California-based tech firms.” The “clash” was set off by Assembly Bill 5 in 2019, a predatory law that was a gift to organized labor that lusted for the membership ...
California

From bloated budgets, to wasteful spending: Why California needs its own DOGE

If any government were in desperate need of a DOGE effort, it’s California. The bloated budget, wasteful public works projects and inefficient government programs are all screaming for attention. The federal Department of Government Efficiency has become famous — and certainly infamous in some minds — for its efforts to ...
California

No way to run a homeless program

Last year’s count of the homeless population in both Los Angeles County and City showed a slight decrease, which is a small measure of progress. But the findings of recent audit of city-funded homelessness assistance programs suggests changes are needed in the local response if there is to be a ...
California

What Is Going On In Los Angeles? 

Another question comes to mind: Could Los Angeles be the next Detroit? At times, is seems it’s in a race with San Francisco to see which will be the first to reach a Motor City-like nadir. Due to its “serious financial headwinds,” the city is going to have to make cuts, ...
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