CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEW & VIEWS

Obama EPA: Kill 300,000 Jobs/Raise Cost of Living for All–Kill the Middle Class By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 08:09 pm Obama has found after Obamacare passed that he has a blood lust for killing American Jobs—thanks to his economic policies we have the historically highest rate of Non Participation in the Labor market. At the same time, thanks to ObamaCare we have the highest number of low wage/part time and temporary workers in our history. […] Read More and Comment: Obama EPA: Kill 300,000 Jobs/Raise Cost of Living for All–Kill the Middle Class Thomas Elias: ‘Disclose Act’ an antidote to dismal vote turnouts? By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 08:05 pm Lots of elected officials are crying that so few people turn out to vote. Seriously. Most citizens no longer have confidence in the honesty of the electoral process—going back years the California Secretary of State has refused to take action, when evidence was presented that tens of thousands of folks on the voting rolls no […] Read More and Comment: Thomas Elias: ‘Disclose Act’ an antidote to dismal vote turnouts? San Diego City Council Deal Could Pump Millions Into Football Stadium By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:59 pm Those running the finances of San Diego belong in the Hall of Shame of finance officer’s nationwide. The city council may be the most economically illiterate in the nation. They are getting a vendor to make a $6 million investment in Qualcomm Stadium, where the Chargers play. If the Chargers move, which they seem to […] Read More and Comment: San Diego City Council Deal Could Pump Millions Into Football Stadium Best School Districts for Your Buck in California: LAUSD 369 out of 375 WORST By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:54 pm Thanks to this report we know that Los Angeles Unified Schools District has a 68% graduation rate, meaning almost one of three students do not graduate. Yet they have a 21 to 1 ratio of student to teachers. Click on the blue headline below and open up the report and see where your school district […] Read More and Comment: Best School Districts for Your Buck in California: LAUSD 369 out of 375 WORST Legislators Admit NOT Writing Legislation–“Sponsors” Do By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:51 pm Did you really think the legislators in Sacramento, or Washington actually wrote the bill that they try to pass? Or even have their staff write the bills, under their direction? If you do, you probably took a government civics class in a government school—more proof of the miseducation of students. “Ask Assemblyman Ken Cooley who […] Read More and Comment: Legislators Admit NOT Writing Legislation–“Sponsors” Do Monterey County Must Clean Up Its Jail–by Releasing Criminals to the Streets By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:46 pm Thanks to AB 109 and Prop. 47, the State prisons population have gone from 167,000 to 113,000 as of January, 2015. Many have been released directly to the streets and others have been sent to county jails. Many of the 58 counties have jails under court orders due to being “too crowded” and the prisoners […] Read More and Comment: Monterey County Must Clean Up Its Jail–by Releasing Criminals to the Streets Sale of Berkeley Post Office Squashed–U.S. Post Office Still has $8 Billion Deficit By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:41 pm The U.S. Post Office is about to suffer the third straight year of an $8 billion deficit. It is also suffering under massive collapse of mail going through the system. The Internet is faster, more secure and accurate than a person in a small vehicle hoping to put the mail in the right box. So, […] Read More and Comment: Sale of Berkeley Post Office Squashed–U.S. Post Office Still has $8 Billion Deficit Californians howling at proposed water cuts By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:39 pm The very confused Guv is demanding we cut our water use by 25-35%. Yet he allows, even promotes the waste of millions of acre feet of water to go into the ocean, in an effort to protect some fish. While he is telling you NOT to flush your toilet, he refuses to spend money voters […] Read More and Comment: Californians howling at proposed water cuts Drought may drop property values–city/county tax revenues to drop By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:33 pm The disaster caused by the bad water policies of our confused Guv Brown and his fellow Democrats continues to grow. By asking for $7.5 billion in bond money, with billions of dams, and then not spending it, by not declaring an emergency and waiving environment issues to build desalinization plants and by continuing to allow […] Read More and Comment: Drought may drop property values–city/county tax revenues to drop Wind costs more than you think due to massive federal subsidies By Stephen Frank on Apr 17, 2015 07:02 pm The cost of alternative fuels—wind turbine, biomass, solar, etc are extremely more expensive than oil or coal—and not even close to being efficient. In fact these alternatives are not for the sake of American energy, but to transfer your tax dollars to foreign companies and countries. “Most cost estimates for wind power disregard the heavy […] Read More and Comment: Wind costs more than you think due to massive federal subsidies   In Case You Missed It: Obama Lied/People Died: Less Than 24 Hours After Obama Took Cuba off Terror List a Terror Group Sponsored by Cuba Kills 10 Simi Valley Saves Millions in Bond Refinancing: Has $70 Million in Unfunded Pensions State of California gets to Cast 9200 Ballots in “Local” Tax Election—Not a Joke Low Housing Affordability Hurting San Diego’s Economy How Rising Retirement Benefit Costs Threaten Municipal Services in California