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The dog that didn’t bark: More evidence top Dems want bullet train gone

The California establishment fights dirty when it comes to direct challenges to its priorities and the people it wants to protect the most. The CTA blocking efforts to make it easier to remove classroom sexual predators and instead passing legislation

Do CA electeds really believe pot is healthier than e-cigarettes?

Chris Reed February 25, 2014

E-cigarettes that are far healthier than the normal kind remain under siege in California. Why? Cigarettes just aren’t OK with the cool kids running the Golden State — unless we’re talking about marijuana cigarettes. How odd. “A Los Angeles City

Judge confirms the ‘California rule’: Pensions can only go up

Chris Reed February 25, 2014

A state judge on Monday did a split-the-baby routine with San Jose’s voter-approved pension-reform law: “SAN JOSE — In a landmark ruling that could help shape city budgets around the state, a judge invalidated key parts of San Jose’s voter-approved

Report: ‘Polio-like’ disease a menace to CA children

Chris Reed February 24, 2014

Yahoo News, which is gearing up to be a player on the regional and national news scene, has a troubling new report about California: “Over a one-year period, five children in California developed a polio-like illness that caused severe weakness

Welfare, housing: Clinton pragmatism still ignored by CA’s dim paleo Dems

Chris Reed February 24, 2014

In the late 1980s, after three straight Republican presidential wins in which GOP candidates won 133 of 150 states, the Democratic Leadership Council seized prominence in Democratic policy circles with its centrist reform agenda. Founded in 1985 by strategist Al

Study of Los Angeles: Prosperity increases income inequality

Chris Reed February 23, 2014

Coverage of income inequality is shockingly slanted and inept. Lazy, populist demonization of the 1 percent is the standard default starting position for explaining why poor people make a small fraction of what the very wealthy do. But as I’ve

Shakedown street: Jesse Jackson targets Silicon Valley — again

Chris Reed February 22, 2014

However one feels about the growing fuss over white and Asian dominance of U.S. tech work forces, there are some fundamental facts to consider, starting with: African-American students are less likely to graduate college with degrees in high-tech fields. This

Video: Entrepreneurship still thrives in CA

John Seiler February 21, 2014

Not all businesses have been driven from California because of its high taxes and regulations. Some entrepreneurs still are find ways to thrive…

Bill would stamp ‘Veteran’ on CA vet licenses

John Seiler February 21, 2014

AB 1637 would stamp a “Veteran” designation on the drivers licenses of Californians who served. It’s by Assembly members Jim Frazier, D-Oakley, and Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica. According to the Chronicle: “The hope, Frazier said, is that the license designation under

Push to restore CA bilingual education dubious in more than one way

Chris Reed February 21, 2014

When software tycoon Ron Unz’s Prop. 227 campaign to end bilingual education in California won landslide approval in 1998, one reason was that a lot of Latinos and white liberals shared Unz’s fundamental view that bilingual ed wasn’t working well