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Fast Food Workers

Proposed Law Would Hurt, Not Help, Fast Food Workers

January 31, 2022 Kerry Jackson
  • Business Economics
  • California

Legislation in Sacramento that falls neatly into the “only in California” category is a bill that would make the state the sole arbiter of “​​industry-wide standards on wages and working conditions in the fast food industry.” The private sector seems to be losing ground nearly...

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State Capitol

Is This Any Way to Pass Sweeping Changes to People’s Health Care?

January 28, 2022 Tim Anaya
  • California
  • Healthcare

On Monday, lawmakers will vote on a sweeping change to the state’s health care system, which could dramatically change how every Californian receives health care, and for the worse. According to estimates, the bill would cost at least $356.5 billion per year to implement and would...

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Foster Child

What Naomi Schaefer Riley Would Do as California’s Child Welfare Czar

January 27, 2022 Rowena Itchon
  • California

Each year, more than 800,000 children are abused or neglected by their caretakers and 440,000 children are removed from their families and placed into foster care.  President Biden in his failed “Build Back Better” legislation and Gov. Newsom in his proposed 2022-23 budget are attempting...

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Hospital consolidation

Three Legislative Reforms So Physicians Can Open Hospitals

January 26, 2022 McKenzie Richards
  • Healthcare

It is rare to find an issue that unites both political parties. Finding such an issue within healthcare policy is even rarer. However, the worrisome trend of medical care provider consolidation – both individual practitioners and hospitals – concerns everyone. A well-researched fact, consolidation in medical...

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Forcing California To Open Its Hidden Finances

January 25, 2022 Kerry Jackson
  • California

California often operates on a different plane than the rest of the states. For instance, it has long set its own automobile emissions standards, which are stricter than the regulations Washington has assigned to the remainder of the country. California is also the lone holdout...

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For National School Choice Week, The Homeschool Boom Continues

January 24, 2022 Lance Izumi
  • Education

As America celebrates National School Choice Week from January 24th through the 30th, choice is growing, especially homeschooling.  In my new book The Homeschool Boom: Pandemic, Policies, and Possibilities, I detail the phenomenal increase in homeschooling across the country.  Since the book went to print,...

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San Francisco

Crime Victims Not Persuaded All’s Well in San Francisco

January 21, 2022 Steve Smith
  • California

In a recent article – “We fact checked the most common claims about San Francisco crime”, the San Francisco Chronicle outrageously attempted to defend the state of crime in San Francisco as well as the recall facing District Attorney Chesa Boudin.   The Chronicle may feel...

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Gas Tax

Amid Inflation, Skyrocketing Prices, Will Sacramento Actually Cut Gas Taxes?

January 20, 2022 Tim Anaya
  • California

There has been much speculation on Right by the Bay and elsewhere about how Gov. Gavin Newsom will address surging state tax revenue to meet the requirements of the so-called Gann Limit. Newsom promised in his 3-hour marathon Jan. 10 budget press conference that details about...

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Single Payer

Single-Payer Health Care Will Cost $12,250 per California Household

January 19, 2022 Rowena Itchon
  • Healthcare

When Inside California Politics host Frank Buckley asked California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon whether he feels differently about the new attempt to bring single-payer health care to California (AB 1400) versus the last bill in 2017 (SB 562), Rendon replied, “that was really you know...

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Outdoor dining

Is California Turning on Outdoor Dining?

January 18, 2022 M. Nolan Gray
  • Business Economics
  • California

In July, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to make the city’s emergency outdoor dining ordinance permanent. Adopted in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program empowered restaurant owners to convert adjacent on-street parking spaces into “parklets” where they could serve pandemic-weary patrons....

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