Thomas Buckley – Page 62 – California Globe

$139 Dollars A Second: That’s How Much the EDD Will Borrow TODAY…

May 27, 2023 8:08 amMay 27, 2023 8:09 am

$139 Dollars A Second: That’s How Much the EDD Will Borrow TODAY… …And how much it borrowed yesterday and has borrowed every day since May 8 when it paid the feds about $1.8 billion to cut its outstanding pandemic unemployment...

Julie Su Pining for Labor Secretary

May 26, 2023 4:30 pmMay 27, 2023 8:42 am

Julie Su’s struggle to be confirmed the next Secretary of Labor got a bit of help this week, though it is unclear if it will do any good as she tries desperately to keep key Democrats from abandoning her quest....

Senator Winfrey?

May 24, 2023 3:56 pmMay 24, 2023 4:05 pm

It what can only be called a piece of speculative writing, an Associated Press reporter recently opined that maybe Oprah Winfrey would be the perfect placeholder senator for California if and/or when Dianne Feinstein finally realizes who and where she...

The Curious Case of CA Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond and Daniel Lee

May 23, 2023 3:59 pmMay 24, 2023 6:19 am

In 2021 (or thereabouts), California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond had an idea – let’s form an Office of Equity in the California Department of Education, or CDE. Thurmond also knew the perfect person to run said office...

An Ulterior Media

May 18, 2023 2:25 amMay 18, 2023 2:26 am

We all have an acquaintance – let’s call him Mike – that we know that whenever he says something we immediately ask ourselves “Why is he saying that?” “The sky is blue,” says Mike and we immediately think “Well, that’s...

Julie Su Underling Calls Migrant Program He Oversees ‘The Purchase of Humans’

May 15, 2023 4:33 pmMay 15, 2023 4:34 pm

A senior Department of Labor staffer a few weeks ago claimed the H-2A migrant worker program “literally is the purchase of humans to perform difficult work under terrible conditions, sometimes including subhuman living conditions.” The staffer also claimed wages are...

The Uni-Party Isn’t Just Bad for Governance – It’s Bad for Society

May 15, 2023 10:15 amMay 15, 2023 10:16 am

We will take as a given for the purposes of this article that California has one actual political party. It is called the Democratic Party but could easily be called any number of things – the Bureaucratic Party, the Oligarch...