Taking a job as a manicurist in California requires more than filling out an application and receiving an offer from an employer. Manicurists have to have at least 400 hours of training, which can cost thousands of dollars. They must also take a written and...
While the antics of anti-Trump teachers, such as the recent viral video of a Southern California teacher beating a President Trump piñata, make headlines, classroom bias is much more deeply embedded, especially in the Common Core curriculum. When the Obama administration pushed states to adopt the...
Senate Republicans are complaining about Obamacare again. But this time, they're upset that the federal government isn't spending enough money to prop up the health law's insurance exchanges. Over a dozen GOP senators, nearly all of whom repeatedly campaigned on repealing and replacing Obamacare, tried to...
As goes Iowa, so goes the nation -- or at least that's the conventional wisdom during presidential elections. Let's hope the same rule applies to healthcare reform. Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law that takes advantage of a major loophole in Obamacare....
Most Americans harbor no love for health insurance companies, which often seem to nickel and dime customers. Doctors and hospital administrators don't like dealing with insurers either. Increasingly, patients and providers are choosing to cut out insurers and contract directly with each other. The model is...
Gov. Jerry Brown and some California lawmakers are pushing Golden State drivers to the fast lane of an all-electric car future. For example, San Francisco Democrat Phil Ting has introduced legislation to outlaw the sale of traditional gas-powered cars by the year 2040. My colleague Kerry Jackson has...
New research indicates that coffee might help cut the risk of heart disease. Apparently, that was taken as good news everywhere -- except California. Four days after that study was published, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a preliminary ruling that forces stores that...
Last month, the Trump administration saved ObamaCare from destruction. It was a difficult decision — and the correct one. Administration officials shot down a daring plan from Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter that would have allowed Idaho insurers to ignore ObamaCare's premium-inflating regulations. Under the proposal, insurers would...
In March, the Trump administration saved Obamacare in Idaho. It was a hard decision for administration officials, who harbor no love for the health law. But it was the right call. Idaho officials wanted to help residents who have been harmed by Obamacare's premium-inflating regulations. So...
Sacramento seems to ever be in search of a problem to solve even where no problem exists. Count Sen. Scott Wiener’s net neutrality bill among the efforts to force hard medicine on a healthy patient. Wiener’s aim with Senate Bill 822, according to the San Francisco...