CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/26/2015

No Surprise–Texas Beats California–Austin beats out San Francisco as No. 1 tech city, report says By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:33 pm As in everything else, even technology is doing better in Texas than in California. “Austin has the best environment in the world for the technology industry, according to a report by London, England-based property consulting firm Savills Plc. Using five metrics such as property prices, talent pool and quality of life, Austin beat out tech […] Read More and Comment: No Surprise–Texas Beats California–Austin beats out San Francisco as No. 1 tech city, report says Grimes: Brown Administration Tied To Scandal That Took Down Oregon Governor By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:29 pm Want to find corruption—look for a Democrat. Clintons, Elizabeth Warren, Gore, Sharpton, Obama and the bigot Eric Holder. Now, those around our very confused Guv Brown are steeped in a scandal..and the billionaire Tom Steyer, who tried to buy the U.S. Senate in 2014 (and failed miserably) is also deep in doo-doo. “In October 2013, […] Read More and Comment: Grimes: Brown Administration Tied To Scandal That Took Down Oregon Governor Californians getting slightly lower gas tax –after RAISING it! By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:26 pm Big deal—In January Guv Brown raised our gas taxes by at least ten cents a gallon—with the money Not going to roads, but the biggest scam in California history, the choo choo train to nowhere for nobody. Now the Board of Equalization has gone back several years and undone a “tax swap” that made no […] Read More and Comment: Californians getting slightly lower gas tax –after RAISING it! Study: One quarter of California state revenue comes from federal government By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:16 pm While Obama was building the national debt by $8 trillion, the money given to the States went up. In fact, 25% of the California full budget—over $160 billion, actually comes from the Feds. They pay for mandated programs and for things California politicians do not want to pay for, so get the good folks in […] Read More and Comment: Study: One quarter of California state revenue comes from federal government CA College Adjunct Professors Plan Walkout Today–Took Jobs They Didn’t Like By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:12 pm If you do not like your job, do not like your pay, you do not like the working conditions, you have every right to tell your boss you quit if you can not get improvements. But, if you knew about the pay and working conditions BEFORE you took the job, why are you complaining when […] Read More and Comment: CA College Adjunct Professors Plan Walkout Today–Took Jobs They Didn’t Like USC Schwarzenegger Institute slow to act on sexual harassment allegations against IPCC chair By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:09 pm You had to know this was going to happen. When Arnold, the amateur Governor and professional fondler left office, the media was then willing to tell us how bad a pervert he is. Just ask Maria who found out Arnold had sired a son with one of Maria’s household staff. Ask the numerous Hollywood starlets […] Read More and Comment: USC Schwarzenegger Institute slow to act on sexual harassment allegations against IPCC chair Oakland City Council Staff Reports Reveal True Impact of Minimum Wage Increases By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:05 pm If you want to get more unemployment, assure the poor stay poor, help impoverish a whole community, then support a higher minimum wage. By doing so you price those without skills out of the job market—then your taxes go up to support those YOU put out of work. Here is what it does to Oakland. […] Read More and Comment: Oakland City Council Staff Reports Reveal True Impact of Minimum Wage Increases LAUSD Superintendent Sued: Charged with being a Sexual Predator By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 08:00 pm Miramonte is an elementary school in LAUSD, where administrators knew for years that a teacher was a predator. It has cost the district millions. During part of the time the Superintendent Ramon Cortines had to have known about it. But said nothing. The School Board had to have known—now millions are going to pay the […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD Superintendent Sued: Charged with being a Sexual Predator Stanford U: Islam Studies Compares ISIS to Ferguson By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 07:57 pm Stanford used to be a nationally recognized hall of education where values, principles and discipline were the order of the day. Now, we find that Stanford has become a center for terrorist apologists—claiming that a cop in Ferguson killing a criminal (as the investigation proved) is equal to the mass beheading and burning alive of […] Read More and Comment: Stanford U: Islam Studies Compares ISIS to Ferguson Cable TV bundling of unwanted channels upheld by court –Federal Law Over Rules California Law By Stephen Frank on Feb 25, 2015 07:54 pm The State of California says you do not have to pay for cable services you do not want. I do not want to watch the Lakers or Dodgers. But Time Warner forces me to pay for the extra expense of carrying these two sports teams. Instead, I now have DirectV. Thanks to the Federal Communications […] Read More and Comment: Cable TV bundling of unwanted channels upheld by court –Federal Law Over Rules California Law   In Case You Missed It: Left Demands No Raids on Businesses Hiring Illegal Aliens State Official Demands CEO of Private Firm Justify Salary Oakland Should Call Raiders Bluff –Let Southern California Pay for the Welfare Queens Actors Forced to Pay Dues to Unions–Which is Trying to Kill Their Jobs California Women’s Caucus Announces Action on Equal Pay