CALIFORNIA POLITICAL REVIEW 09/22/2019

If California Relies on Obama School Discipline Policy, It Will Put Students at Risk By Jonathan Butcher on Sep 21, 2019 07:30 am California legislators seek to expand a law that limits a teacher’s ability to keep order in the classroom. Surveys find opposition to such loosened policies, and research demonstrates that ideas such as these may put students at risk and even limit student achievement. The provisions also dredge up painful questions about the relationship between recent […] Read More and Comment: If California Relies on Obama School Discipline Policy, It Will Put Students at Risk   AOC Chief of Staff Admits: Green Dream is About Creating a Totalitarian State Not Saving the Planet By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:14 pm Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could have been a member of the Soviet Union Politburo.  Instead she wants to turn the United States in the failed, fallen Soviet Union.  This bartender turned Congresswoman created an environmental plan, not to save the Earth, but for government to kill jobs and the economy and force the population to be […] Read More and Comment: AOC Chief of Staff Admits: Green Dream is About Creating a Totalitarian State Not Saving the Planet   Trump Bails Out California Democrats on Housing Crisis By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:11 pm Obama refused to allow the use of a unused Federal building n Hawthorne for a shelter for the homeless.  President Trump reversed that decision.  Unlike the Democrats he takes action.  While the State of California, the city of San Fran and Los Angeles doubled the amount spent on homelessness in the past five years, the […] Read More and Comment: Trump Bails Out California Democrats on Housing Crisis   Labor Costs Soar in San Jose and Phoenix By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:09 pm California is expensive.  San Jose, with a collapsing pension system–$3.4 billion unfunded—not enough cops and high taxes, is leading the pack of unaffordability. “Employer costs for employee compensation averaged $36.61 per hour worked in June 2019. Wages and salaries averaged $25.12 per hour worked and accounted for 68.6% of these costs, while benefit costs averaged […] Read More and Comment: Labor Costs Soar in San Jose and Phoenix   LA County will ask Supreme Court to uphold bans against sleeping on sidewalks By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:06 pm Go downtown and you see on every street, bikes, cars not moving and people sleeping on the sidewalks.  The same for San Fran and many California cities.  The reason the cops can’t control this is a Supreme Court decision allowing it.    Previously, the Supreme Court allowed the homeless to declare any street corner as their […] Read More and Comment: LA County will ask Supreme Court to uphold bans against sleeping on sidewalks   Josh Hawley: If GOP Wants a Future It Will Have to Become ‘Movement of Working People’ By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:03 pm The Democrat Socialist Party is the Party of corporations, the rich and the special interests.  They are the Party of unions, which steal from workers.  What should the Republican Party be representative of? “The Missouri senator charged during the interview that the Republican Party will have to embrace populist issues such as trade, fighting monopolies […] Read More and Comment: Josh Hawley: If GOP Wants a Future It Will Have to Become ‘Movement of Working People’   Did California Just Abolish Single-Family Zoning? By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 09:00 pm While not the full answer to the housing problem, the use of “granny flats” will alleviate some of the problem.  Now the State of California has mandated these be allowed.  Imagine your backyard with one or two 500 sq.ft. “homes” instead of grass? “From the passage of statewide rent control to the failure of a […] Read More and Comment: Did California Just Abolish Single-Family Zoning?   California High-Speed Rail board votes to bring trains to San Francisco By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 08:58 pm The scam artists behind the High Speed Rail admit they lied about the costs, the routes and the system to be used.  The cost has gone up FOUR times the original cost, ridership dropped by 50% and the cost to the riders (if there are any) is now about $150.  But, since nothing will be […] Read More and Comment: California High-Speed Rail board votes to bring trains to San Francisco   Field of dreams Or neighborhood nightmare? By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 08:55 pm Scammers are alive and well in Monterey.  The people of Monterey are learning a lesson.  Just because government SAYS it will spend bond money one way that has nothing to do with the truth. This is what the educrats (politicians running government education) told the people of Monterey to get 70% to approve a bond: […] Read More and Comment: Field of dreams Or neighborhood nightmare?   Charles Barkley: Democrats ‘only talk to black people every four years’ By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 08:52 pm Donald Trump challenged black Americans to a flat statement, “Vote for me, what do you have to lose?” In the 2.5 years since his election Black Americans have lost unemployment, gain jobs, wages and a better life.  In fact, thanks to the LBJ Great Society and numerous welfare programs, black American lost families and hope.  […] Read More and Comment: Charles Barkley: Democrats ‘only talk to black people every four years’   Anti-Education Progressive Running for OC Board of Education By Stephen Frank on Sep 20, 2019 08:36 pm Andy Thorburn does not believe parents should be allowed to get the best education possible for their children.  Andy Thorburn believes no teacher should be allowed in the classroom without pay a bribe to a union.  Thorburn believes government indoctrination, ala the old Soviet Union is what your child needs. “Thorburn offers nothing new – […] Read More and Comment: Anti-Education Progressive Running for OC Board of Education

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