Eber: Is “BIG” actually better?
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 08:35 pmThe bigger the government, the smaller the people. Need a light bulb—government will tell you what you are allowed to buy. Want to work? Government will force you to take a dangerous vaccine. Need an education? Not at government schools, they are for indoctrination. Biden is trying to force us to use EV’s to get […]
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Paving the way for autonomous big rigs
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 08:14 pmWhile driving the 101, 80 or 5 freeway that big truck next you may not have a driver. There might be a human in the cab, but they are not driving, they are watching movies on their tablet, while the truck drives itself. “Self-driving semis may be coming to a freeway near you. A new bill […]
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Walters: California economy surges, but future cloudy
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 08:11 pmBig Lots is hiring!! At minimum wage. Newsom is killing off high paying energy jobs and the tech industry is firing high paid employees. We are becoming a minimum wage, Third World State. Yes, we have lots of jobs—y they are minimum wage jobs—as Newsom and the Democrats kill off high paying jobs in the […]
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Politics Report: San Diego Hiring Private Workers to Help with Massive Permit Backlog
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 08:08 pmHow does the City of San Diego slow economic growth and the creation of new jobs? Easy! It slow walks the issuing of permits. Now it is so bad, they will spend $25 million to hire a PRIVATE firm to get rid of the back log. “It now takes the better part of a year […]
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Grid Expert: Replacing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant with Renewables ‘Can’t Be Done’
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 08:02 pmCalifornia is on the road to darkness. Yup, thanks to the banning of the use of cheap and clean coal, cheap and clean nuclear power, along with the stopping of oil drilling permits and killing existing ones, California will not have enough power to keep a 60 watt bulb on for 24 hours throughout the […]
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Issa Announces Legislation to Ban Mileage Taxes, Mileage Trackers
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 07:59 pmCalifornia Democrats love taxes. Every July 1 they automatically increase the gas tax and cities raise the sales tax. But that is not enough. Now, San Diego is looking to create a mileage tax. The average cost will be $900 a year. But, how do they collect tax on people from Arizona that visit the […]
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Walters: High-impact measures headed for 2024 California ballot
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 07:55 pmThe November, 2024 ballot will be one of the most expensive, if not THE most expensive in the history of the State. Fast food chains are fighting to stay in California. If the State takes over the wages and benefits and working conditions of workers at a burger joint, expect the burger joint to either […]
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Trans Activist Accused of Rape After She Was Moved to Women’s Prison
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 07:52 pmIf you put a man in a women’s prison what would you expect? “An incarcerated woman at a California prison was an eyewitness to a rape of a fellow prisoner by a trans woman at the facility. This rape was done by a biological male—with the assistance of the Governor and the Democrats who refuse […]
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Elias: THE INEVITABLE CONVERSIONS BEGIN MULTIPLYING
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 07:49 pmVacant office buildings are becoming housing units in California. As the population declines, the office spaces are being used for “affordable housing”. But, with declining population, who will use them? The homeless? The illegal aliens? If so, who would want to live near a homeless/illegal alien compound? Does it matter—if government wants to destroy more […]
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Will arts education cuts in proposed California budget have a big impact?
By Stephen Frank on Jan 31, 2023 07:45 pmThe voters and taxpayers of California were scammed in 2022. We were told that if we didn’t give one billion MORE to arts and music in the government schools, the kids were going to hell. Actually, we knew it was a scam. No one believed they would spend more money on arts or music—the money […]
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Red Herring Alert: Comparing California and Japan High Speed Rail Falls on its Face
By Thomas Buckley on Jan 31, 2023 07:30 amJapan’s high speed rail system, first begun in 1964, actually makes a lot of money Well, it’s big in Japan. That is what proponents of California’s high speed rail project say when asked about the whys and wherefores of the system. In other words, if it works somewhere else it will work here. That argument, though, […]
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Emails Reveal Tensions in Colorado River Talks
By Kathleen Ronaynie and Felicia Fonseca on Jan 31, 2023 07:00 amCompeting priorities, outsized demands and the federal government’s retreat from a threatened deadline stymied a deal last summer on how to drastically reduce water use from the parched Colorado River, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. The documents span the June-to-August window the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation gave states to reach consensus on water cuts […]
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