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Back to homepageIn LAUSD, who teaches struggling kids? Interns. Thanks, CTA.
April 22, 2013 By Chris Reed Los Angeles Unified is an ongoing, never-ending monument to the core premise of California education: Let’s make life easy for veteran adult employees. Its United Teachers Los Angeles-dominated school board has for years enforced
Read MoreEx-CA cop: U.S. law enforcement blew terror response
April 20, 2013 By Chris Reed A former official with a state law-enforcement agency sent me a contrarian take on the week’s events in Massachusetts: “At the risk of spoiling the high fives on the Boston bombing incident, has anybody
Read MoreCA social engineers: Gov’t should parent ‘disadvantaged’ kids
April 18, 2013 By Chris Reed The recent flap over an MSNBC promo in which commentator Melissa Harris-Perry declared that Americans “have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to
Read MoreEx-CA Senate Dem candidate tees off on immigration ‘reform’
April 17, 2013 By Chris Reed Mickey Kaus, the Los Angeles journalist and author who ran against Sen. Barbara Boxer in the 2010 Democratic primary, has emerged as the sharpest critic of the immigration overhaul expected to emerge this week
Read MoreJuvenile justice: The latest from San Diego Mayor Bob Filner
April 16, 2013 By Chris Reed Newly elected San Diego Mayor Bob Filner basically owes his political career to the courage he showed as a Freedom Rider in the early 1960s. It’s the card he plays to cast himself in
Read MoreState schools chief: President Obama is a corporate stooge
April 15, 2013 By Chris Reed UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff’s blueprint for Democrats from a decade ago continues to reverberate. Lakoff stressed the emphasis of framing issues with the proper language and spoke of the power of metaphors.
Read MoreNow media notice: Obamacare worsens CA physician shortage
April 14, 2013 By Chris Reed Among the many severe problems with Obamacare that a cheerleading media chose to ignore in the run-up to its March 2010 enactment, perhaps the most obvious was the fact that it would be impossible
Read MoreCEQA chases awesome Google project to Missouri, Texas
April 13, 2013 By Chris Reed A really cool project conceived of and developed by Google in Silicon Valley isn’t going to do Californians any good in the short term. It is Google Fiber — the search giant’s experimental Internet
Read MoreHouse GOP whip: Folly to expect fed $ for bullet train
April 12, 2013 By Chris Reed There’s a double-whammy targeting the bullet train on the op-ed page of Friday’s U-T San Diego newspaper. First House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, tees off on the state’s assumption that federal dollars will
Read MoreCA lawmaker: Use tax code to punish unpopular views
April 10, 2013 By Chris Reed As a libertarian who supports gay marriage, I’m not a social conservative cultural warrior. That said, I still think there’s something extremely troubling about government power being used to punish those whose views are
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