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Gov. Newsom Announces ‘Twindemic,’ and Increased COVID Testing into March 2021

August 26, 2020 2:52 pmAugust 28, 2020 12:26 pm

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced a “Twindemic” will be upon us soon with COVID and flu season in the fall, and a new partnership with PerkinElmer, Inc. a diagnostic company, to build a laboratory within the state, and...

With COVID Goalposts Moved Daily, Who In California Is In Charge?

August 19, 2020 6:21 amAugust 19, 2020 4:12 pm

It has become evident that California Governor Gavin Newsom never had an actual exit strategy for his statewide Coronavirus response. All of California’s schools are still closed due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s COVID-19 lockdown order – all K-12 schools, community...

‘Time Stealing’ Regulations for ‘The Wealth Tax’

August 17, 2020 1:14 pmAugust 17, 2020 7:58 pm

Can you imagine having to do an inventory and net worth calculation every year? Let alone potentially being audited and having to prove that values were not intentionally understated? It’s not only financial robbery, it’s time theft! – Senator John...

California Dems’ Wealth Tax Follows People Who Move Out of the State

August 17, 2020 7:28 amAugust 18, 2020 8:12 am

Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) made an appearance on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Friday to discuss his Wealth Tax proposal. Bonta told Cavuto the tax “affects about 0.15% of the California population — not the top 10%, not the top 1%,...

CA Democrats Pushing First-in-the-Nation ‘Wealth Tax’ on State’s Billionaires

August 13, 2020 1:10 pmAugust 13, 2020 2:27 pm

Oakland Assemblyman Rob Bonta held a press conference Thursday announcing his legislation to tax the state’s wealthiest job creators and innovators – the 30,400 billionaires living and working in California. This first-in-the-nation net worth tax is estimated to generate $7.5...

CTA Employees Have a Pension Plan Twice as Good as the Teachers They Represent

August 12, 2020 2:26 amAugust 11, 2020 8:19 pm

This week a fascinating article on the website of the Education Intelligence Agency revealed that the California Teachers Association, one of the most powerful labor unions in the world, is itself having labor problems. Moreover, the labor problems they are encountering are because...

How Much Do California’s County Workers Make?

July 29, 2020 2:55 amJuly 28, 2020 9:18 pm

In April, with the pandemic shutdown sending California’s economy into free fall, Gavin Newsom convened a Zoom meeting with the four living California ex governors. He asked them to describe the biggest crisis they faced while in office. As reported by the New...