CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 07/12/2018

LAUSD’s Proposed Parcel Tax is a Scam

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:37 pm
Did you actually think any tax by the morally, ethically, financially and educationally bankrupt Los Angeles Unified School District would be a good thing for kids, taxpayers or education?  This is a District that in 2015 gave 45% of its diploma’s to students with a “D” average—looks like those running the District think all of […]

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Withdrawal of the Taxpayer Protection Act could haunt the American Beverage Association

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:34 pm
Sometimes a good deal is just putting off the inevitable or maybe in the short run, you committed suicide.  In the case of the soda industry and the American Beverage Association they did stop legislation that would “One of the measures withdrawn last week was the Taxpayer Protection Act, which would have strengthened a number […]

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6 Big Changes Coming To Public Schools And Politics Thanks To The Supreme Court’s Union Smashdown

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:32 pm
Freedom—Quality—Results—Education Geared to Individuals/NOT Special Interest The Janus decision has changed education for years to come.  Special interests will no longer decide what teachers can do in the classroom—that is now up to the parents and District.  No excuses for bad results.  Parents will have choices for education venues—that end the education monopoly. “Two-thirds of […]

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Work less, study more: California will give grants to community college students attending full-time

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:29 pm
Imagine—sign up for community college, 15 units, you can get up to $4,000 a year in free money.  Would you enroll for these bucks?  Who pays for this and how could the money be spent to benefit all students, not just a few? “In an effort to get students to earn degrees in two or […]

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Why ‘Group Rights’ and Identity Politics Continue to Threaten the Republic

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:27 pm
Are we part of a mob or are we individuals?  To Democrats they do not see YOU—they see gender, pretend gender, race, ethnicity—anything but you as a person.  Republicans believe every individual is important and unique.  The GOP believes as individuals we have our own needs, concerns and problems.  Democrats see identity politics—Republicans see people […]

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Los Alamitos Mayor Gears Up for Long Sanctuary-State Battle Ahead

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:25 pm
We may have to wait till November 2020 for the repeal SB54 ballot measure, before law enforcement is allowed to protect our citizens and visitors from felonies from foreign countries that Sacramento Democrats demand be covered.  Instead of protecting the honest and innocent, SB54 protects felonies and future crimes. “”My initial reaction—I was disappointed but […]

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California’s gone without higher ed affirmative action since 1996. Black enrollment at top UCs never recovered.

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:23 pm
I love when the media misleads the public and is caught.  In this article it is noted that the UC system has not used affirmative action since 1996.  Accurate, technically—but not true in reality.  Instead, they use zip codes, economic class and other indicators to assure affirmative action is alive and well—without using those words. […]

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Pelosi Thinks Questioning Her Ability to Lead Is Sexist, Then Forgets McConnell’s Name

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:20 pm
Nancy Pelosi has some real health issues—she is forgetting words, names and places.  At a recent event she forgot the name of the GOP Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell.  She has mumbled, babbled and in general appears to be falling apart, right in front of the nation.  Yet, to note this, she claims is sexist.  Why […]

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Is California’s Legacy Environmental Law Protecting The State’s Beauty Or Blocking Affordable Housing

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:17 pm
Why do we have a shortage of housing in California?  Why do we have a severe shortage of affordable housing California?  The environmental laws can slow stop or slow down the building of anything, kill job creation and cause increase costs for housing and products and services. “Redwood City approved more than a year ago […]

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California malls are sharing license plate tracking data with ICE

By Stephen Frank on Jul 11, 2018 09:13 pm
Privacy?  Not in California.  Go to a mall and these folks are sharing the data they receive with ICE.  ICE can then find the owner of the license plate and determine if they are a felon illegal alien, or an illegal alien with a deportation order.  If I were an illegal alien, now that this […]

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