Farmers Got 20% of Needed Water in 2020—In 20201 Only 10%
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 09:16 pmThe California farmer is in trouble. Last year that got 10% of what they needed. If all goes “well” this year they will get 20%. At the same time California government could spend up to $500 million to demolish four dams in Oregon that provide us with water and some energy. Any wonder we do […]
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‘I Just Do My Own Thing’: Walter Williams, RIP
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 09:09 pmYears ago I was responsible for holding a daylong conference at USC for young college students in the art of combining politics and policy. As my keynote speaker I hired Dr. Walter Williams. For one hour he held the full attention of the students. He discussed free market economics, use of issues in a campaign […]
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California City That Sold Pension Debt Now at Fiscal Brink
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 09:06 pmCalPERS is killing off cities. The next victim of the incompetent, corrupt and “socially aware” pension system is the city of West Covina. They sold pension debt, a stupid idea, now the city could go under financially. “City has no recovery plan and risks bankruptcy, audit says West Covina, California, which sold $204 million of […]
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San Fran Supes ban tobacco smoking in apartments but exempt cannabis
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:59 pmDid you know that marijuana is up to ten times as toxic for cancer as a regular cigarette? So, San Fran politicians decided to make sure the ghost town is actually filled with ghosts. They have banned cigarettes being smoked in your own home—but allow you to get cancer quickly, and fry your brain, by […]
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Joe Biden’s Pick for Top Economic Adviser, Neera Tanden, Endorsed Bill Creating a National Soda Tax
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:51 pmIf you love taxes, you will love the mentally limited Joe Biden and his Administration of thieves. His proposed top economic advisor has been begging to tax the poor, heavily, via a soda tax. “In 2019, Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D–Conn.) and Jan Schakowsky (D–Ill.) introduced the Medicare for America Act, a bill that despite its […]
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Walters: Court slaps down no-bid school contracts
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:46 pmWant to make a lot of bucks without having to earn it? Become friends with those that give out school no bid contracts. “A California appellate court has applied the brakes to misusing state law for sweetheart, no-bid school construction contracts. An alternative view of California’s public school system is that it is a huge […]
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Stein: California Public Advocates Office enters a “common interest agreement” with the Sierra Club to help the CPUC ban the use of natural gas
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:42 pmA private organization based on socialist policy, the Sierra Club, has created a cabal with the California Public Utilities Commission to make energy more expensive and very unreliable. As we have seen with the recent brownouts and blackouts—San Diego areas have lost power for three days. Together they will ban the use of clean, cheap […]
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California’s Su Rises in Biden Labor Chief Race as Unions Split
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:39 pmJulie Su is the Newsom Cabinet member responsible for the EDD—the agency that just got caught giving 34,000 PRISONERS unemployment checks worth $400 million. In total she gave one billion dollars to those not qualified to receive the checks. In fact, the State admits that one of three recipients of unemployment checks are ineligible to […]
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Christmas Tree Few Will See Erected in Downtown (ghost town) Santa Barbara
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:35 pmState Street in Santa Barbara looks and feels like a ghost town. Many of the businesses are permanently closed. Others will be closed because they are “non-essential” as declared by politicians who only see themselves as being essential. Yet, the city makes a big deal about putting up a giant Christmas tree that almost no […]
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Amtrak Continues to Lie
By Stephen Frank on Dec 04, 2020 08:30 pmAmtrak is like any other government agency. It will misrepresent the facts and data in order to stay in business and steal from the taxpayers. In this case they are claiming that subsidies of tax dollars to keep the doors open are actually “revenues” as if they represent riders. “Amtrak is maintaining the twin fictions […]
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