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Greenberg: Can Oakland Survive Barbara Lee?

April 22, 2025 7:21 amApril 22, 2025 7:22 am

Barbara Lee’s triumph in Oakland’s mayoral race on April 15, 2025, has been hailed as a progressive milestone, marking her as the city’s first Black woman mayor. But beneath the applause lies a grim reality: Lee’s victory signals trouble for...

Unions Have Hijacked Our Schools – This Election Can Change That

November 1, 2024 11:30 amNovember 1, 2024 11:31 am

School board meetings across California resemble bar fights in the Old West — only worse. Belligerent union activists are unhinged. I’ve personally witnessed unions controlling board meetings with chaotic antics while drowning out parents, taxpayers, loving teachers, and board members...

From the Cheap Seats: Flip the Script

October 18, 2024 4:55 amOctober 18, 2024 4:56 am

Two years ago, The Coast News published a commentary entitled “The Elephant in the Room,” referring to an enormous presence in school board elections — teachers unions. Now, an election looms in which that presence has grown bigger. We expect unions to...

Ringside: Would Suing the Bureaucracy Bring Us More Water?

October 17, 2024 6:30 amOctober 17, 2024 6:31 am

There isn’t a major water project in California in the last 30 years or more that hasn’t been subject to relentless litigation. Usually the litigators represent powerful environmentalist organizations, sometimes they represent social justice groups, and sometimes they represent labor....

Gavin Newsom’s Ongoing Tyranny of California Includes Special Legislative Session

September 19, 2024 9:03 amSeptember 20, 2024 8:32 am

When you think of California in 2024, instead of misty redwoods, golden beaches and snow-covered mountains, visions of homelessness, high crime, high taxes, high gas prices, high housing costs, and illegal border crossings come to mind. Yet Governor Gavin Newsom...

Project Labor Agreements

August 21, 2024 2:30 amAugust 21, 2024 2:31 am

California’s Public Contract Code, in Division 2, Part 1, Chapter 2.8, deals with Project Labor Agreements (“PLAs”). Section 2500 authorizes a public entity to use, enter into, or require contractors to enter into, a project labor agreement for a construction...

Gov. Newsom Destroys Parents’ Rights; Elon Musk Announces Move of SpaceX from CA

July 18, 2024 9:57 amJuly 18, 2024 9:57 am

By Rebecca Friedrichs and Roger Ruvolo What would inspire Elon Musk to post: “This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ...