CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 11/27/2015

Los Angeles Times Reporter Shows BIAS Against Legal Immigrants That Are Latino By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:15 pm Did anyone expect that a Times reporter would write stories based on facts, instead of adding their bias to the story? Should we demand that reporters not include their support for causes are brought into the story? Just because the Times reporter has a racial bias, why should she be allowed to imply others are […] Read More and Comment: Los Angeles Times Reporter Shows BIAS Against Legal Immigrants That Are Latino Thanks to California Tax Law: Pay $200 for Cell Phone Worth $600—Get TAXED on $600 Price By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:12 pm When I bought my new cell phone a couple of years ago, I saved close to $250 on the device. But, the store manager changed my on the full price. This is like buying a $30,000 car, negotiating it down to $26,000—but being forced to pay sales tax on the $30,000. It makes no sense, […] Read More and Comment: Thanks to California Tax Law: Pay $200 for Cell Phone Worth $600—Get TAXED on $600 Price Rising health benefits have major impact on LAUSD finances By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:10 pm Thanks to the mismanagement, corruption and unions LAUSD might graduate 49% of the seniors next year—while at the same time admitting that by 2021 it will have a total of $1.5 billion in deficits. This is a district that is a poster child for Charter schools—otherwise the students get no education. Oh, I should also […] Read More and Comment: Rising health benefits have major impact on LAUSD finances Obama Cuts Medicare Doctors Pay by 10%–How Many Will Stay? By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:08 pm The best doctors do not take Medicare patients—the pay is low, slow and time consuming. Why should a doctor be paid less than they are worth? Yet government has decided if you are a Medicare patient then you must accept doctors that work on the cheap—and you get what you pay for. “According to a […] Read More and Comment: Obama Cuts Medicare Doctors Pay by 10%–How Many Will Stay? Should Elected California Judges Be Forced to Accept Staffers Hired by Unelecteds in San Fran? By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:05 pm If you are a Supervisor, council member, State legislator, all elected positions, you get to decide who you want to hire to work for you. But there is an effort in California by unelecteds to decide who can work for Superior Court Judges. But, if you are judged by your work and the work of […] Read More and Comment: Should Elected California Judges Be Forced to Accept Staffers Hired by Unelecteds in San Fran? Sand: Collective Bargaining Disagreement By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:03 pm LAUSD is going to have, per THEIR reports, a total of $1.5 billion in deficit by the year 2021. At the same time test scores are going down, the drop out rate is climbing and the expected graduation rate in 2016 will be 49%. Importantly, enrollment is dropping—though English as a Second Language students are […] Read More and Comment: Sand: Collective Bargaining Disagreement Guv Browns’ Public Utilities Commission Makes it EASIER for Terrorists to Take Out Utility Plants By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 08:01 pm Over the past few days three times the number of cops has been patrolling Times Square in New York. Some cities actually have cops with machine guns on the streets. All government agencies have heightened, for the long run, safety measures—and malls which are “soft” targets are adding security. One of the softest targets available […] Read More and Comment: Guv Browns’ Public Utilities Commission Makes it EASIER for Terrorists to Take Out Utility Plants San Diego: Have Your Pizza and Your Marijuana Delivered to Your Door By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 07:59 pm San Diego is leading the way. While it is difficult for medical marijuana dispensaries to get the needed permits, those already opened have figured it out. Why have the customer fight traffic to get to your store—have a delivery service. While the stores will be far apart—maybe two dozen in the whole of San Diego […] Read More and Comment: San Diego: Have Your Pizza and Your Marijuana Delivered to Your Door With Rising Number of Highway Deaths, California Bucks National Trend By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 07:57 pm Congratulations California—high taxes, high water and energy costs, the most poverty in the nation, the worst government schools in the nation—now while the rest of the nation is lowering deaths on the highway; California continues to kill on the freeways. “The federal safety agency said California’s death toll in motor-vehicle collisions last year was 3,074. […] Read More and Comment: With Rising Number of Highway Deaths, California Bucks National Trend OC Democrat Party to “Rebuke” Democrat Councilman Who OPPOSES IMMEDIATE RACISM in Re-Districting By Stephen Frank on Nov 26, 2015 07:52 pm Now we find out there is not only a racist wing of the Democrat Party, but a few Democrats that OPPOSE racism. In Anaheim, thanks to threats of millions in attorney fees if the city does not elect council members by district (instead of citywide) a map was drawn up. In fact the Orange County […] Read More and Comment: OC Democrat Party to “Rebuke” Democrat Councilman Who OPPOSES IMMEDIATE RACISM in Re-Districting   In Case You Missed It: Haupt’s Take on Turkey Day: A look back at Ronald Reagan’s Thanksgiving message LA Unified losing $100s of millions in mandates unpaid by state, U.S. Cal Berkeley Project: Apologist for Terrorism Hurricane activity down a stunning 80% from a decade ago City of San Carlos Discriminates Against “Chain” Stores—Make Them MORE Expensive