CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 09/22/2015

Los Angeles Most Expensive to Rent—San Fran Most Expensive to Buy Home—Congrats California By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:48 pm As Californians we need to be proud. Our taxes are the highest in the nation, the cost of energy, gas and water is among the highest in the nation. Sales, income and corporate taxes do not take a second place to any State. Our budget spends $162 billion, but we still have a debt of […] Read More and Comment: Los Angeles Most Expensive to Rent—San Fran Most Expensive to Buy Home—Congrats California Catholic Church pushes to the left and the right By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:45 pm The Catholic Church, led by the Pope, has become a political force. The Pope has declared climate change and income inequality as issues of the theology of the Church. Yet the Pope has not taken the lead in forming a coalition of the religious community to get nations to stop the beheadings and massacres of […] Read More and Comment: Catholic Church pushes to the left and the right Runner: The Real Revenue Challenge Facing California By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:43 pm In Sacramento the number one goal is to find ways to raise taxes. Tax, cigarettes, alcohol, pornography, soda, oil or anything you can. A little here and a little there and the billions add up. One game that is not played in the Capitol is how to cut spending, end waste and save money by […] Read More and Comment: Runner: The Real Revenue Challenge Facing California Hundreds of Millions in Drought Relief Failing to Reach Many Californians By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:41 pm The people are taxed heavily. The government fails to be responsible—gives our water to fish bait, allows water to drain into the ocean and think by fining us for taking showers or flushing the toilet, the water crisis will be averted. “Funds are earmarked for a range of emergency relief efforts, from drinking water to […] Read More and Comment: Hundreds of Millions in Drought Relief Failing to Reach Many Californians Bike Riders Close Down Section of Los Angeles–Then Whine About Drivers Complaining By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:38 pm The Silverlake section of Los Angles has declared war on cars. The traffic patterns have changed; bike lanes and bikers have priority on the main streets. “The 2013 Rowena Road Diet has been a subject of controversy among the denizens of Silver Lake. The project added bike lanes to the busy avenue and cut the […] Read More and Comment: Bike Riders Close Down Section of Los Angeles–Then Whine About Drivers Complaining 80-90% of Los Angeles Rain Water Goes Into Ocean By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:35 pm Guv Brown is killing off hundreds of thousands of acres of prime agriculture land. Our lawns have turned brown while our toilets have turned yellow. Grass is being killed with cactus replacing it. Our Golden State looks more like a cup of coffee with cream, than the lush landscape it should be. Brown has a […] Read More and Comment: 80-90% of Los Angeles Rain Water Goes Into Ocean Study on California Government Schools: Hire teachers Based on Race NOT Quality—Leftist Racism By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:34 pm Racism has moved from the schools of Alabama in the 1950’s to the government schools of California in 2015. Our schools are looking to hire teachers of the right color, not the right experience and qualifications. This is a racist State that George Wallace would applaud. “The percentage of African­-American teachers has declined dramatically and […] Read More and Comment: Study on California Government Schools: Hire teachers Based on Race NOT Quality—Leftist Racism California Government Schools: We Need VOLUNTEERS to Do Job of Professionals in Local Schools By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:32 pm California spends more than $40 billion a year on government k-12 schools. Yet, they are rich enough to spend a little over 10% of the money just on pensions! Then we pay off the unions for their donations to the school board elections. It is the children that suffer. In some places there is no […] Read More and Comment: California Government Schools: We Need VOLUNTEERS to Do Job of Professionals in Local Schools Feds Plan For Traffic Around NorCal Mega Region In 2045 By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:30 pm The good news is that government is planning for traffic needs in 25 years,20140. The bad news is that it is Washington, the Federal government telling the people of Oakland, Marin and the Bay area what they will get. While they are holding hearings, they are just for show—some bureaucrat that has never been west […] Read More and Comment: Feds Plan For Traffic Around NorCal Mega Region In 2045 Lawmakers never agreed on cap-and-trade funding. Now what? By Stephen Frank on Sep 21, 2015 09:26 pm AB 32 by the professional fondler and amateur governor Arnold, create the ability for government to create cap and trade—without a vote of the people. Billions each year will be collected. The confused Guv Brown wants to give a billion dollars a year to the biggest boondoggle in California history, the choo-choo train. At this […] Read More and Comment: Lawmakers never agreed on cap-and-trade funding. Now what?   In Case You Missed It: California Republican Party Endorses Platform—That VERY Few Will Read–Editorial by Stephen Frank Jay Leno on Barack Obama—Only 486 Days of Barack the First in White House How San Fran Got More Drivers to Yield to Pedestrians California Educrats Lie—by Omission—To Parents About Worthless Common Core Tests Can the Democrats Lose California?