CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 03/13/2015

Florida is Joining Texas in Poaching California Jobs and Families By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:58 pm California has the highest personal income tax in the nation. Texas and Florida have NONE. California has AB 32 making it expensive to run a business in the former Golden State. Both Florida and Taxes work with business to assure regulations are efficient and effective, but not meant to punish. “In a letter to western […] Read More and Comment: Florida is Joining Texas in Poaching California Jobs and Families ACLU Upset With Calaveras Bd. Of Supervisors for Supporting the Unborn With Christian Values By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:55 pm The ACLU has no problem with the KKK marching through the Jewish section of Skokie, Illinois. They have no problem in stopping law enforcement from investigating terrorists, because the terrorists congregate at religious institutions. The ACLU has no problem holding children hostage in government schools, but complain if tax dollars are used to give children […] Read More and Comment: ACLU Upset With Calaveras Bd. Of Supervisors for Supporting the Unborn With Christian Values Los Angeles Teachers Union DOES NOT Endorse Against Pro-Family Conservative School Board Candidate By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:50 pm LA School board president Richard Vladovic is running for re-election. He is your typical Leftist Democrat, tries to give the unions all they want, but as we all know that is never enough. In the past the union, UTLA, has not endorsed him—but he won anyway. Once again, they are refusing to endorse him. His […] Read More and Comment: Los Angeles Teachers Union DOES NOT Endorse Against Pro-Family Conservative School Board Candidate Even a Democrat is Upset Courts Wasted Money By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:45 pm For several years California courts, county by county, have closed for between 1-2 days a month to 1-2 days a week. Civil trials pushed back for years, criminal trials pleaded out due to lack of court room space and prosecutors. The courts have been whining about lack of judges, and Guv Brown has refused to […] Read More and Comment: Even a Democrat is Upset Courts Wasted Money Let Medicare Patients Decide Which Accountable Care Organization to Join By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:41 pm Thanks to ObamaCare, those on Medicare are going to see a $455 BILLION CUT in services and drugs—not a raise, a decrease—even as millions more are forced into this Third World health care program—lots of people, too few doctors. Worse, the way they are making the cuts guarantees that fewer doctors can afford to take […] Read More and Comment: Let Medicare Patients Decide Which Accountable Care Organization to Join SF is almost losing ground on affordable housing–losses almost equal gains By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:39 pm The Mayor of San Fran demands that 30,000 new affordable homes be built in his city. What he forgets to note is that at the same time affordable and regular housing is being torn down or moving into slum status. The goal was 12,000 new homes from 2007-14—instead the NET gain was 1700, just over […] Read More and Comment: SF is almost losing ground on affordable housing–losses almost equal gains Water Rates Rising EVERYWHERE, Lake Cachuma Dropping By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:35 pm Last summer we had cut backs in water use, mostly voluntary. This year we will have even less water—and what we have will have increased costs. Across the State water districts are raising the cost of water over the cost of water they are buying PLUS to make up for the revenues they are not […] Read More and Comment: Water Rates Rising EVERYWHERE, Lake Cachuma Dropping SoCal Air Gets a Pass From 9th Circuit–Agrees We Have Lost Enough Jobs By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:33 pm Great news!! The 9th Circuit Court has ruled that Southern California has lost enough jobs and lost enough firms to Texas that further restrictions on the “environment” are not needed. “The 9th Circuit on Wednesday declined environmentalists’ calls for tougher regulation of smog in Southern California, ruling that federal standards to limit the pollution are […] Read More and Comment: SoCal Air Gets a Pass From 9th Circuit–Agrees We Have Lost Enough Jobs Could the pension wars be headed to the 2016 ballot? By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:30 pm Based on Federal accounting criteria, CalPERS has over $754 billion in unfunded liabilities, the UC system has over $21 billion in unfunded liabilities and CalSTRS (teachers retirement) is at just under $170 billion of unfunded liabilities. CalPERS has mandated a 50% increase in mandated contributions, city after city have sales tax increases or extensions to […] Read More and Comment: Could the pension wars be headed to the 2016 ballot? San Diego Taxpayers Forced to Pay for Billionaires: $335M to $549M Is Cost to Expand Convention Center By Stephen Frank on Mar 12, 2015 08:28 pm The people of San Diego must believe they are so rich, they can flush hundreds of millions down the toilet for the vanity of a beautiful, empty convention center. The city is also GIVING the billionaire owners of the San Diego Chargers $12 million tax dollars a year to subsidize Qualcomm stadium—and the billionaires want […] Read More and Comment: San Diego Taxpayers Forced to Pay for Billionaires: $335M to $549M Is Cost to Expand Convention Center   In Case You Missed It: Los Angeles Mega-Rich in 2013—4520—LA Mega-Rich in 2015—969 California: Land of the Billionaires (and most in poverty in nation) JUST IN: State ed board votes to delay use of test results for a year–AGAIN Calif. School Districts Struggling To Cover Lifetime Health Benefits for Retirees–$20 Billion Worth California’s Social Priorities, A New Report