Dhillon/Yoo: Statewide Lockdowns And The Law
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 08:14 pmThe authors make an extremely good and important point. The lock down, house arrest, “shelter in place” is mandated not by the Federal government but by the State and local governments. Trump can request, but it takes the Governors to make the decision. So the question comes, is this legal and is it appropriate? “Here […]
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Farmer: Proposed changes to Proposition 13 could devastate family farms
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 08:11 pmThe Democrats are working hard to tank what is left of the California economy. AB 5 is killing hundreds of thousands of jobs—killing them as well as the virus is doing. High taxes, bad regulations, use of gas tax money for trains to nowhere—making our roads unsafe. November will see an attempt to transfer $12.5 […]
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San Diego Government Protects Itself From Layoffs, Per Mayor Faulconer
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 08:09 pmRestaurants are being closed, hotels are firing workers, the airlines are dead. Small and large businesses are cutting employment. Last week 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment. In San Diego, the Socialist GOP Mayor, Kevin Faulconer, has declared that EVERY city employee—from receptionists, to planners, to janitors, to police are “essential”. While private business is […]
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California schools chief recommends that schools prepare for distance learning for rest of school year
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 08:06 pmCalifornia schools will be closed till August. As expected they will not open this semester. No graduation ceremonies, no SAT tests, probably only pass/fail grades. Using the Internet for education could become more than a temporary situation. Money will be very tight—and school districts will have to pay much more for CalSTRS, the teachers retirement […]
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Shutdown Costs Reagan Library $150,000 a Week in Lost Revenue
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 08:04 pmThe rumor was flying around the L.A. area—the Reagan Library was going to close permanently. Not true. It is closed, now, like other libraries, museums and public facilities. Like the others, no one knows for sure when it can re-open. In the meantime, it is losing $150,000 a week in revenues. “The letter was initially […]
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Caltrain and partners continue pursuing November ballot measure
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 07:59 pmAre they idiots? For years ridership on government transportation systems have decline. The Wuhan Virus has PROVED that pushing people together creates the spread of disease—yet the unions and special interests in the Bay Area want a $2 billion bond (principal plus interest) for the expansion of a disease carrying train system. At the same […]
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Santa Barbara County Employee Retirement System Takes Big Pension Hit
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 07:49 pmWatch as the budgets of cities and counties take a major hit, starting July 1, 2020 when they have to finance the collapsing CalPERS system. Santa Barbara is a great example—so far they have a 14% loss—while CalPERS has lost at least $69 billion in the past month. At the same time local tax revenues […]
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Countering Feds, California rolls out sweeping changes to water deliveries
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 07:40 pmPresident Trump wants to give California farmers more water. Guv Newsom wants to take water meant for farmers and people and flow it out to the ocean—waste it. “However, the newly-issued permit dramatically changes how California operates its water infrastructure. A major change in operations is centered on which agency holds the final authority to […]
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U.S. Sex Workers and ‘Prurient’ Businesses Excluded From COVID-19 Disaster Loans
By Stephen Frank on Apr 01, 2020 07:36 pmGreat news—while the $2.2 trillion rescue package from Washington will give unions new powers to extort workers, sex shops will not be helped. “Yet some of the eligibility requirements reflect nothing more than prejudice, puritanism, and playing favorites. For instance, any entity that normally makes more than one-third of its gross annual revenue from legal […]
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