CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 11/14/2015

State of California SECRETLY Collecting Blood/DNA of ALL Babies Since 1983 By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 09:00 pm Have a baby in California and the State of California will take some of its blood—and catalog its DNA. No permission, no court order. Oh, this has been going on since 1983. Then we find out the State can SELL this information to private firms. No telling how has your private information. Yes, we should […] Read More and Comment: State of California SECRETLY Collecting Blood/DNA of ALL Babies Since 1983 White Leftists Worry About Kale/GMO’s—Not Jobs and Safe Street for People of Color By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:55 pm The people in Oakland suffer from among the worst schools in the State and nation. It is a center for crime, with the police having been cut back by a third due to financial irresponsibility of the local government. Want racism? Oakland is the place to be. Need a high cost of housing? Oakland is […] Read More and Comment: White Leftists Worry About Kale/GMO’s—Not Jobs and Safe Street for People of Color LAUSD Needs Drastic Cutbacks to Stave Off Bankruptcy: Unions Silent By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:53 pm Los Angeles Unified School District, if all goes well, will “graduate” 49% of it s eligible seniors. It would be much lower but the exit exam has been eliminated. This is the district that could not one billion dollars. Then gave a no bid contract to a firm for IPADS—that did not work and were […] Read More and Comment: LAUSD Needs Drastic Cutbacks to Stave Off Bankruptcy: Unions Silent San Francisco Needs to Get Denser. Can It? By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:51 pm For a generation San Fran has been calling itself the New York of the West.   Actually it is working hard to become a dense, gridlocked, expensive place to live. Bad streets, worse government schools, tall building and if the Mayor has he way, billions will be spent to create slums, ur, affordable housing that turn […] Read More and Comment: San Francisco Needs to Get Denser. Can It? Counties Receive $500M For New Jails By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:50 pm Thanks to AB 109, prison realignment bill, more than 50,000 criminals that belong in State prison are now back on the streets. Thanks to Prop. 47, tens of thousands of criminals are not being arrested, because their crimes are not “serious” enough for prosecution—including drug dealing, some car theft, and worse. Thanks to President Obama […] Read More and Comment: Counties Receive $500M For New Jails Lessons learned’ after millions in overruns hit downtown LA rail connector project By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:47 pm If you have a government program, it will have over runs. Excuses will be found, change orders will be “the cause” and the taxpayers the suckers footing the bill. The unions have no problem, since their bribe payers continue to work at the expense of society. In this case, it is a government transportation system […] Read More and Comment: Lessons learned’ after millions in overruns hit downtown LA rail connector project It Shouldn’t Take 30 Years to Execute a Convicted Cold Blooded Killer in California By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:45 pm Prior to 1975, California executed its convicted murderers in a timely fashion. In Texas today, from conviction to execution is usually less than even years. California has close to one hundred prisoners on death row over twenty years—many over thirty years. Thanks to Jerry Brown and his Supreme court (later Recalled), Charlie Manson is living […] Read More and Comment: It Shouldn’t Take 30 Years to Execute a Convicted Cold Blooded Killer in California Newspaper Industry Collapsing? Tribune Company to End Year With 10% Fewer Employees Than on 1/1/15 By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:43 pm A dramatic drop in circulation and revenues, for years has decimated the mainstream newspaper industry. Just a couple of years ago the Tribune got out of bankruptcy. Now in 2015 they have fired 10% of their employees and put numerous newspapers at risk. Some reports have the circulation of the Tribune owned L.A. Times down […] Read More and Comment: Newspaper Industry Collapsing? Tribune Company to End Year With 10% Fewer Employees Than on 1/1/15 Congrats to California: Top FIVE Costliest Housing Markets Nationally, in California By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:41 pm Last week we found out California had the deadliest roads in the nation. We already knew we had the worst roads in the nation, a failed government education system (LAUSD is going to graduate 49% of the seniors—it would be lower but they ended the exit exam), high taxes, bad regulations, criminals free to roam […] Read More and Comment: Congrats to California: Top FIVE Costliest Housing Markets Nationally, in California GOP Agrees to Budget Deal—Obama Goes on Spending Spree–$339 Billion On First Day By Stephen Frank on Nov 13, 2015 08:27 pm Do not give Barack Obama your credit cards. For several months the Federal debt stayed the exact same—not a penny change. Then the Republicans agreed to a budget deal. On the very first day after the bill was signed, Obama spent $339 billion—actually he had already spent the money, without telling us, now he paid […] Read More and Comment: GOP Agrees to Budget Deal—Obama Goes on Spending Spree–$339 Billion On First Day   In Case You Missed It: Hillary Rodham Nixon: I Tried to Join the Marines! Seriously Sick Texas Builds 200 Mile High Speed Rail—NO Government Money Runner and Huff File Water Priorities Constitutional Amendment & New Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Facilities Bond Act Contra Costa Sheriff warns supervisors that deputies are ditching county What Recovery? California Foreclosures up 21% in October