CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 07/17/2017

5 million immigrants granted US citizenship can’t speak English

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:47 pm
Obama really wanted to stack the deck and assure folks who vote do NOT speak English.  Thanks to his “leadership” 5 million (not a typo) of those granted United States citizenship, CAN NOT speak English.  Yes, one of the criteria for citizenship is the ability to read and write English.  How did they pass the […]

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Los Angeles Schools Face Fiscal Woes

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:45 pm
Los Angeles Unified School District is losing students as quickly as a balloon loses air on a hot day.  From an enrollment of over 700,000, it is now down to 500,000.  And, another 100,000 want to attend charter schools, not LAUSD/union schools.  This is a District in deep financial trouble—yet the School Board is about […]

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Malcolm Gladwell Wants You To Hate Golf So He Can Steal Private Property

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:42 pm
Should a community have a golf course or a public park?  Which serves the public better?  To some a golf course is a symbol of decadence and capitalism.  Yet, I understand the need for a park.  In this Los Angeles case, it is ONE socialist that is wealthy promoting the park.  The community has not […]

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Community Groups Protest San Jose’s Crackdown on Homeless Feedings in St. James Park

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:40 pm
Feed the homeless in the Progressive city of San Jose and you are in trouble.  Want to do private charity work by making sure the homeless have a good meal—or at least a meal—the Left wants you to stop. ““It’s taking away our right to be of service to others and help their quality of […]

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The Alameda Corridor Ponzi Scheme

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:37 pm
The Alameda corridor is in Los Angeles, connecting the port with the downtown rail yards.  Now the Left has decided to use government and the taxpayers to payoff the unions and the phony capitalists.  In fact, the people of Los Angeles are losing lots of money each year on this project, with NO way to […]

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Oregon (Yes, Oregon) Just Put a Tax on Bicycles

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:34 pm
Oregon has the right idea.  If you are going to give bikes the right to cause traffic jams, make driving more dangerous, create spending meant potholes for bike lanes, then why not charge a registration fee for a bike.  But Oregon does not go far enough—the tax is just only newly bought bikes—make every bike […]

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Looking at Downtown Bike Share, One Year Later

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:31 pm
Los Angeles, a city of over 3,000,000, is very proud of a share bike program, costing $11 million providing 182,500 trips.  Did you get your moneys worth?  On the Westside, the City closed one car lane, causing traffic jams several hundred yards long.  In the Downtown area, the more bikes on the streets, already narrow, […]

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Hard-pressed rural Californians try civil-rights approach

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:29 pm
Is question is simple.  Should representation in the Legislature be considered a civil right?  What if the rural area was put into a gigantic or geographically large district—do the rural folks can equal and fir representation? “As a result, residents in rural counties sit back helplessly as, say, environmental groups impose industry-killing regulations on the […]

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Punishing Private EMS Providers Would Hurt Patients

By Stephen Frank on Jul 16, 2017 06:23 pm
Politicians are crazy.  A whacked out Democrat wants to force EMS personnel (emergency medical services) to take mandatory meal or break on a specified time.  So, while trying to save your life, they must stop and eat lunch.  Are they crazy or just immature? “EMS personnel have a tough job. They deal with crisis situations […]

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