By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:22 pm
This is a bit strange. The California Building Industry Association is calling SB 50 a “job creator, “SB 50 (Wiener) – Incentivizes the production of high-density housing in transit-rich areas.” Why is it strange? Because that us already the law. Any city that wants to use high density housing near transit—or anywhere else in the […]
Read More and Comment: CBIA Announces 2019 Housing Creators, Housing Killers Legislation
 
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:20 pm
The good news is that LAUSD is so poorly run—both educationally and financially bankrupt—run by unions, not the teachers, parents or community—that getting a 2/3 vote to raise a parcel tax—that starts at an added $800 a year—will be hard to pass. Then you realize NONE of the money goes to education—it goes to pensions […]
Read More and Comment: Whether for or against a parcel tax, parents and advocates want more money for schools — but they don’t yet trust LAUSD to be a ‘good steward’
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:18 pm
Add four more bills to the list of Chamber of Commerce job killer bills. The Democrats have come up with “great” ideas” to force people and business to leave California. For instance, “AB 1066 (Gonzalez; D-San Diego) Would significantly increase costs on employers engaged in a trade dispute by allowing employees on strike to receive […]
Read More and Comment: Job Killer Update: CalChamber Identifies Four Additional Bills
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:14 pm
Thought you should know the tea leafs are showing what we all know, California has an economic problem. Housing prices fell in L.A. San Diego and Orange Counties. Prices fall when they are too few buyers for the supply of homes available. Yet at the same time we are told we have a massive shortage […]
Read More and Comment: SoCal Correction: House prices fell in Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties on a year-over-year basis, the first time in seven years.
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:12 pm
The ACLU really wants to keep kids from having families—instead prefer group homes and juvenile halls. In the case of Michigan, they are trying to make a State policy a national policy. In Michigan only adoption agencies through the STATE cooperation—private adoptions will be stopped nationwide—and they are using a Catholic adoption agency in California […]
Read More and Comment: Thanks to Michigan AG, Catholic adoption agencies may shutter
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:10 pm
Sometime in 2026, without a massive increase in taxes, Medicare will have to cut reimbursements—already low—to hospitals and hospice—due to being out of money. In 17 years the whole system must cut benefits—or raise taxes. Of course raising taxes makes people poorer—and unable to provide for themselves in retirement. Social Security will be forced to […]
Read More and Comment: Gov’t Report: Medicare Out of $$ for Hospital Costs in 2026
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:08 pm
While the rest of the nation has a decrease in the number of rapes, college campuses have seen an increase. How does that happen? Obama changed the definition of rape from an actual rape to a charge of rape, true of not. Hence you get a lot of “rapes” and since most campuses do not […]
Read More and Comment: Sen. Jackson Ignoring Appellate Court Decisions on Campus Rape Bill; Dissing Opposition
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:04 pm
Los Angeles has a three billion dollar backlog of potholes and street repairs. Bridges throughout California are in danger of falling down. Try driving from Ventura County to San Diego on a Monday morning. Leaving at 7:00am—a distance of under 200 miles—on a normal day it will take 4-5 HOURS. Yet, the unions and crony […]
Read More and Comment: Build a Bullet Train? California Can’t Even Build a One-Mile Rail Tunnel in San Francisco
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:02 pm
In an era of teacher strikes—walk outs to stop education of children, the Madera teachers union wants a strike, supports a strike—but decided to sign a new contract. Do not get excited—first the District can not afford the contract—if it were real. Actually, the new contract ENDS in June. About two months from now, a […]
Read More and Comment: Madera Unified Teachers Avoid Strike, For Now — Stike in August Threatened
By Stephen Frank on Apr 22, 2019 09:00 pm
In 1966 I worked for a political consultant named Hal Evry. He ran Ivy baker Priests campaign for California Treasurer. He had a favorite issue—parking meters. His view was that since drivers, through gas taxes paid for the streets, why should we pay again to park on the streets we already paid for? He was […]
Read More and Comment: Sixth Circuit Rules Against ‘Chalking’ of Parked Cars
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