CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 03/14/2020

Will the Coronavirus Revolutionize Education? By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:44 pm This is a chance, during a crisis, to modernize our 19thcentury education system.  We already have an online community college system run by the State.  There are online charter schools.  We have the Kahn academy that is a better teacher, subject by subject then a local school filled with teachers who think their job is […] Read More and Comment: Will the Coronavirus Revolutionize Education?   Sweetwater Considers More Than 200 Layoffs and Closing Learning Centers By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:41 pm Yet another school district is joining the brigade of layoffs, led by Oakland, Berkeley and dozens of other districts.  San Diego schools are in trouble—yet the voters said NO to every school bond expect for one on March 3.  The folks are tired of failed schools and higher costs that provide wage increases, but continue […] Read More and Comment: Sweetwater Considers More Than 200 Layoffs and Closing Learning Centers   Drug Cartel Uses Housing Shortage to Recruit Low Level Dealers By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:38 pm The drug cartel is smart.  It was smart enough to create legalized marina in California and many other States.  This brings cover to their illegal activities—how can a cop tell the difference between legal and illegal pot?  Plus, in San Fran and other cities where the DA was elected by George Soros, cops are told […] Read More and Comment: Drug Cartel Uses Housing Shortage to Recruit Low Level Dealers   ‘Turtles on a treadmill’: Joni Ernst blasts ludicrous government waste in scathing Senate speech By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:35 pm Government wastes money.  Throw it away.  How else do you explain the putting of turtles on a treadmill to see how slow they go? “The Iowa Republican drew a spotlight to one particularly egregious example of waste, a taxpayer-funded study that blew almost a million dollars putting turtles on treadmills, both dead and alive, then […] Read More and Comment: ‘Turtles on a treadmill’: Joni Ernst blasts ludicrous government waste in scathing Senate speech   Didn’t Go To College? You Still Have To Pay $207 Billion To Bail Out People Who Did By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:29 pm Finish high school, learn coding or a profession.  Get a great, well paying job.  No need to pay for college to learn how to riot and bully.  Yet, thanks to government you are paying over $200 billion to allow bigots, hatemongers, terrorists, totalitarians learn about ethnic studies, gender studies and why white people need to […] Read More and Comment: Didn’t Go To College? You Still Have To Pay $207 Billion To Bail Out People Who Did   Over-Taxed in LA … and Sick of it! By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:27 pm California is overtaxed.  The people of Los Angeles are the highest taxed in the State.  It is so bad that in 2019 an LAUSD $500 mill ballot barely received 51% of the vote in L.A. County.  Regulations, the cost of the homeless (one billion spent in 2019 and we have MORE homeless than in 2018). […] Read More and Comment: Over-Taxed in LA … and Sick of it!   LAO Concerned About Train to Nowhere Violating Law By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:20 pm This is no longer a high speed train.  It is a money pit to payoff unions, donors and construction firms.  It has strayed from the law, refused to return $3.2 billion it took from the Feds for a project that does not represent the money given.  Now we have this scam, per the LAO “Key […] Read More and Comment: LAO Concerned About Train to Nowhere Violating Law   Sasse Rips Pelosi for Trying to Smuggle Hyde Amendment Loophole into Coronavirus Package By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:17 pm The coronavirus can kill us.  Abortion does kill babies.  The Democrats want to stop innocent people being killed by the virus.  At the same time, they wan to use the life saving response to the coronavirus as an excuse to kill babies.  How disgusting.  As Rahm Emmanuel said, never let a crisis go unused. “Senator […] Read More and Comment: Sasse Rips Pelosi for Trying to Smuggle Hyde Amendment Loophole into Coronavirus Package   SB 902 by Weiner: State Changes Residential Zoning WITHOUT Approval by Local Voters By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:15 pm Scott Weiner hates your city council.  He hates your right to decide your quality of life and your ability to decide what your city looks like.  Worse, he does not believe in voters or communities.  Like the authoritarian he is, he prefers non-elected officials run your life. “The bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San […] Read More and Comment: SB 902 by Weiner: State Changes Residential Zoning WITHOUT Approval by Local Voters   How learning will change across California’s K-12 schools amid coronavirus closures By Stephen Frank on Mar 13, 2020 08:14 pm Online education is being used for community colleges in California—since 2019.  Due to the coronavirus online education is now the d facto education for State Colleges and Universities. There is a national online charter school.  We have the Kahn Academy, an online education system.  Technology is change how we educate.  The virus is forcing us […] Read More and Comment: How learning will change across California’s K-12 schools amid coronavirus closures   The California Political News and Views would like tips, suggestions and advance information of local and state government action and legislation. 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