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Public Safety Unions Played a Decisive Role in Getting Brian Dahle Elected to California’s State Senate

June 7, 2019 2:13 amJune 10, 2019 11:15 am

In a special election earlier this week, Brian Dahle defeated Kevin Kiley in the race to become the next California State Senator representing District One, which sprawls north from the foothills east of Sacramento all the way to the Oregon border. Both candidates were Republican...

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New Suburbanism – A Smart Alternative to ‘Smart Growth’

June 5, 2019 2:15 amJune 13, 2019 6:38 am

Solutions to California’s housing shortage invariably focus on increasing the density of preexisting cities and suburbs. Legislative solutions include SB 375, passed in 2008, which “incentivizes” cities and counties to approve high density land developments, and the failed (this time) SB 50,...

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The Homeless Industrial Complex

May 28, 2019 2:15 amMay 27, 2019 9:40 am

Los Angeles could be at risk of a deadly typhus epidemic this summer according to Dr. Drew Pinsky, an outspoken celebrity doctor and specialist in addiction medicine. Pinsky, a Los Angeles native, recently quoted on Fox News, said: “We have tens and tens...

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How Voters Can Transform California in One Election

May 13, 2019 6:04 amMay 15, 2019 1:50 pm

Oxnard, California, wouldn’t immediately come to mind as the epicenter of a political revolution, but that’s exactly what it will be, if a small group of citizen activists succeed in putting not one, but five reforms in front of voters in the...

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Housing and Transportation: Why California’s Legislature Gets EVERYTHING Wrong

May 1, 2019 2:30 amMay 1, 2019 6:27 am

California, the welcoming sanctuary state, has a population on track to break 40 million by the end of this year. Its highway system was designed to handle a population of 20 million. Its cities, bound by legislated “urban containment,” are...

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California’s Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing Scandal

April 18, 2019 7:23 amApril 19, 2019 6:05 pm

When discussing the seemingly intractable and growing problem of homeless people living in California, journalists reporting on the issue don’t spend enough time questioning the numbers, much less the policies driving the insane numbers. A recent article in the San Jose Mercury provides a...

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Sacramento’s Software Incompetence in the Software Capital of the World

April 4, 2019 6:00 pmApril 6, 2019 5:10 am

California owns a well-deserved reputation as being the global epicenter of high technology. In nearly every critical area, from aerospace to biotech, from nanotech to green tech, to telecommunications, to chip design, California’s universities and private companies are either the...