CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 08/26/2016

Frank: California Gov’t Schools in Crisis: School Choice Helps Parents, Students and Teachers By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 08:14 pm Thanks to the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity I had the opportunity of going to Denver for a national bloggers conference on “School Choice” along with 49 other bloggers and journalists from around the nation.  I know that we in California think the world revolves around us.  If an idea does not come […] Read More and Comment: Frank: California Gov’t Schools in Crisis: School Choice Helps Parents, Students and Teachers Current “Global Warming” Started in 1830 (not a typo) Not By Greedy Al Gore By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 08:05 pm I bet you thought that Al Gore invented global warming, climate change, like he invented the Internet.  He has made tens of millions of dollars scaring people into buying small electric cars, live like they did in the 19th century.  He wants manufacturing cut or made more expensive, end the coal, oil, natural gas and […] Read More and Comment: Current “Global Warming” Started in 1830 (not a typo) Not By Greedy Al Gore Will OC trail work affect homeless? ACLU is watching By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 08:02 pm The ACLU needs therapy.  Not only do they prefer criminals on the streets, we now know they prefer the homeless to live along the Santa Ana riverbed-and anything that cleans up the river for the community is bad—since it will displace the homeless.  They could create shelters for the homeless, donate to established shelters or […] Read More and Comment: Will OC trail work affect homeless? ACLU is watching L.A. Asks HUD to Back Private Sports Complex for Billionaires By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:59 pm Los Angeles has the Coliseum, the Staples Center, Pauley Pavilion at UCLA, the Rose Bowl, the Rams are building a Stadium and lots of locations for sport teams—the LA Galaxy, a soccer team has a facility in Carson.  Now a privately own soccer team wants the taxpayers of Buffalo and Miami to help finance an […] Read More and Comment: L.A. Asks HUD to Back Private Sports Complex for Billionaires Caldwell: Why California is feeling the burn By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:56 pm What do the current fires in Monterey County, San Diego, the Blue Cut fire and the fire in San Luis Obispo County have in common?  No not arson or natural causes—all would not be as large or dangerous if it were not for U.S. Forest Service policy of not cutting back brush or cutting down […] Read More and Comment: Caldwell: Why California is feeling the burn Brown’s tunnels cannot be economically justified, returns 23 cents on the $$ By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:46 pm Government is a consumer not a producer.  It consumes your income and energies—to promote itself, the special interest and the “legacies” of the governor.  In this case, the really confused Guv Brown wants to spend a dollar to get 23 cents in benefits.  Brown wants to spend billions to move water from the north to […] Read More and Comment: Brown’s tunnels cannot be economically justified, returns 23 cents on the $$ Dumb Idea Remembered: “Shade Balls” in L.A. Waterways—Silly Time By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:43 pm Government knows how to waste money.  A year ago the publicity hound Mayor Eric Garcetti polluted the LA Reservoir with “shad balls” thousands of them to “stop the evaporation of water.  Today only a few remain—most have been taken out. “A year later, the agency added shade balls to Elysian Reservoir. In April 2012, Upper […] Read More and Comment: Dumb Idea Remembered: “Shade Balls” in L.A. Waterways—Silly Time One school’s response to the active shooter threat: give guns to teachers By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:41 pm The safest school for students in California to attend is in Kingsburg—the High School allows five teachers, unknown to others, to carry guns on campus.  Even safer is the University of Texas where all students are allowed to carry guns.  We need to publicize the Kingsburg High School—for criminals, gangsters and terrorists know this is […] Read More and Comment: One school’s response to the active shooter threat: give guns to teachers Worst Bill of the Day: AB 2792—Protects Criminal Illegal Aliens From Deportation By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:38 pm Will the policy be in California to give illegal aliens the right to determine who they allow to question them?  AB 2792 will gave them that right.  Instead of just turning them over to ICE, Democrats in Sacramento want to give illegal aliens the ability to stay in this nation. “This week, the California Senate […] Read More and Comment: Worst Bill of the Day: AB 2792—Protects Criminal Illegal Aliens From Deportation OCTA Proposes Fare Changes to Cope With Declining Bus Ridership By Stephen Frank on Aug 25, 2016 07:33 pm My home county of Ventura wants $3.3 billion in higher sales tax to pay, in part hundreds of millions for new buses and trains.  The buses in Simi Valley and most of the county are empty, but they want to spend more—then you have to ask, when was the last time you heard of a […] Read More and Comment: OCTA Proposes Fare Changes to Cope With Declining Bus Ridership   In Case You Missed It: AB 109/Prop. 47/ACLU: Robber Arrested with 15 PRIOR Felonies Some L.A. Public Schools Are Accepting That They’re in a Competition for Students Sand: The Myth of the Underpaid Teacher Lives On Quality Education Ruled Unconstitutional by Supreme Court for California Students Orange County Spends $20 Million on Bike Lanes and Walking Trails—Bikers/Walkers Pay NOTHING