Tuesday, January 30, 2018

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 01/30/2018

California is ground-zero for immigration battle and employers are stuck in the middle

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:40 pm
If you are a business owner in California, you might try to get a government contract or sell a product to the Federal government.  In the agreement is a section that says you will cooperate with all government agencies.  Normal language.  ICE comes to your doors and asks about a few employees they believe you […]

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A Downtown Crime Emergency

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:37 pm
L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck, accused by a Van Nuys Police Captain of lying about a crime wave in Los Angeles is leaving—he will take his pension, reported to be over $300,000 a year and laugh all the way to the bank.  As Chief of Police he has protected MS-13 thugs from detainment and arrest […]

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California’s Prison Statistics: How The Golden State Stacks Up

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:33 pm
California has a crime wave.  The answer has been to provide MORE criminals on the streets instead of taking them off the streets.  Worse, the theft of property worth $950 or less is no longer a crime, you get a ticket, you do not have to show up in court (though you are supped to […]

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Why San Fran has the second-highest construction costs in the world

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:30 pm
Want to build an apartment complex, condo’s or major commercial project?  After you spend money on engineers, lobbyists, environmental reports and more, you then have to win an election.  You will have to spend hundreds of thousands or millions, just to get the permission of voters.  All the great plans to create affordable housing and […]

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The Other Demographic Demise Democrats Should Worry About

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:28 pm
Is it possible that the era of unions running government and owning the Socialist Democrat Party is about to end?  The Janus decision could end the extortion of workers forced to pay bribes in order to work.  That would mean a massive loss of money, stolen from workers to give to the wholly owned subsidiary, […]

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Walters: Jerry Brown’s two big public-works projects are foundering

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:25 pm
The High Speed Rail, championed by the professional fondler and amateur governor, Schwarzenegger, and the guy that hates jobs and infrastructure, Jerry Brown, is unfunded, billions in contracts and no source of financing to build, no route, no environmentally approved routes and creating slums in Fresno. Then you have the Delta Tunnel—to ship water from […]

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Reluctantly, Chula Vista Is Going All-In for Pot

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:22 pm
California is going to pot.  In some places sooner than others.  Cathedral City, near Palm Springs is allowing the growth of 177,000 pounds of marijuana each year.  Counties like Sonoma and San Diego are opening up totally to the new industry.  Santa Ana, a town of 300,000 is allowing over 30 storefronts to sell marijuana. […]

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In a First for California, Nurse Practitioners to Deliver Primary Care without Physician Supervision

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:20 pm
As many of you know, last June I had a heart attack and then triple by-pass.  First in Simi Valley Hospital and then Kaiser, Sunset, in Los Angeles.  The doctors were great in both facilities.  But it was the nurses that cared for me on a moment to moment basis, answered my questions, explained the […]

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L.A. Charter School for Low Income Latinos: 87% Go to College

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:17 pm
In 2015, 45% of the diploma’s given by LAUSD were for students with a “D” average.  On the other hand, a charter school, run without unions and radicals setting policies and procedures has 87% of their graduates going to college.  No this is not a Westside, white bread, rich elites government school. “Mohan High School, […]

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San Jose area homes have doubled in value since the Great Recession, making them more expensive than ever

By Stephen Frank on Jan 29, 2018 09:13 pm
Want to know why Silicon Valley firms are looking to expand to other States? “Not only has the Bay Area housing market recovered from the Great Recession and then some — a new report shows that prices here are higher than ever. The average home in America lost 23 percent of its value after the […]

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In Case You Missed It:

Colman: LABOR UNIONS NEED TO REINVENT THEMSELVES
Apple expands its fleet of self-driving cars in California
California schools could see the most money ever, but it won’t keep LAUSD from falling off its fiscal cliff
Old/Confuse Guv Brown to Spend $1.25 Billion for EV Charging Stations: By Executive Order
Greenhut: Janus case: Friends of the court offer weak defense of mandatory union 

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