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LA Times Angles for High-Speed Rail As ‘Jobs’ Program

December 26, 2024 9:40 amDecember 28, 2024 9:23 am

What a train wreck. The Los Angeles Times is touting how California’s high-speed rail project “trains workers and provides thousands of jobs in the Central Valley.” You read that right. They finally admit that it’s just a union jobs program....

Introspection is the Enemy of Happiness – Especially in Government

October 7, 2024 6:00 amOctober 7, 2024 6:01 am

“Introspection is the enemy of happiness.” A very coldly cynical line spoken by Sterling Archer, the lead character in the astonishingly funny “Archer” animated spy television series. It is also very true. While Socrates famously said that “The unexamined life...

California Employment Training Panel

August 14, 2024 2:30 amAugust 14, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Unemployment Insurance Code in Division 3, Part 1, Chapter 3.5 contains the Employment Training Panel. Section 10200 contains five legislative findings and declarations, including that California’s economy is being challenged by competition from other states and overseas. In order...

The Toy Department

June 8, 2023 3:00 amJune 8, 2023 3:01 am

Back when newspapers still existed – hey, get off my lawn you rotten kids! – there was a common nickname for a certain section of the paper. News, op-ed, sports, business, real estate, arts, local were all called what they...

New Overtime Law for Agriculture Workers Was Never About the Workers

January 9, 2023 8:10 amJanuary 10, 2023 3:42 pm

After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), to require overtime pay of time-and-a-half for farm employees working more than eight...

Is Darrell Steinberg the Best Choice for Appellate Court Judge?

December 28, 2022 8:21 amDecember 28, 2022 11:43 am

California Democratic politician Jesse Unruh’s famous description of Sacramento lobbyists rings true even today: “If you can’t eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and then vote against them, you have no business being up here.” Unruh also said,...

Why Did Gov. Newsom Sign Climate Deal With New Zealand?

May 31, 2022 10:33 am

Gov. Gavin Newsom and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern signed a “pledge” Friday agreeing to help fight climate change together by working to put millions more electric vehicles on the road. Why? New Zealand is over 6,700 miles from...