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California Golden Fleece® Award 2025 Goes to California’s Insurance Disaster

May 12, 2025   1:25 pmMay 12, 2025   1:25 pm
The envelope please… And the 16th California Golden Fleece® Award goes to… But first, some context and history. California is in the throes of a self-imposed insurance crisis, with homeowners facing selling because they can’t get insurance. And elected politicians...
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New Golden Fleece Award Goes to BART for ‘Crime, Grime, and Greed’

January 25, 2022   7:11 amApril 3, 2022   3:14 pm
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has just received the California Golden Fleece® Award for its excessive employee compensation, reckless financial mismanagement, poor on-time performance, unsanitary conditions, and failure to prevent the system from becoming a magnet for criminals, the...
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More Than 150 Ph.D. Economists and Political Scientists Call for Gov. Newsom to Suspend AB 5 and Re-Open the Economy

April 16, 2020   1:57 pmApril 16, 2020   1:57 pm
Following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tweet that “SCIENCE — not politics — must be California’s guide” in its economic recovery, more than 150 California economists and professors sent the Governor an open letter calling on him to suspend AB 5. However, at...
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A Schools Choice Organization Is Gathering Signatures For the Education Freedom Act

November 11, 2019   2:21 amNovember 11, 2019   9:07 am
School choice advocates are gathering signatures and raising awareness for the Education Freedom Act, a proposition slated to go before voters in 2022. The statewide initiative would allow parents more control over how their children are educated. This initiative comes...
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Bureaucrats Play, Taxpayers Pay

August 9, 2019   6:41 amAugust 9, 2019   12:05 pm
Sexual misconduct complaints and investigations should be handled by outside experts, guarantee due process for both sides, and the results made public.   “A state board that regulates construction is paying $950,000 to settle a lawsuit from a female employee...
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