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Why Every Californian Has a Stake in Keeping Hollywood Home

September 23, 2026 11:30 amSeptember 23, 2026 11:31 am

The debate over Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is larger than a corporate address. California risks losing an employment network, a supplier base, and taxable economic activity that help support communities across the state. A recent POLITICO and UC Berkeley...

Lawsuit Abuse Is Raising California’s Cost of Living

August 10, 2026 6:00 amAugust 10, 2026 6:01 am

Ask anyone who runs a business in California what keeps them up at night and the answer is familiar: payroll, rent, energy costs, regulation, and an insurance bill that seems to rise every year. Less often discussed, but just as...

UC Berkeley Study: Sacramento’s Regulations Create America’s Highest Poverty Rate, Triggering California Exodus

April 2, 2026 3:32 pmApril 2, 2026 3:37 pm

A new report from the California Policy Lab at UC Berkeley has exposed the harsh reality of life under one-party Democratic rule: California now suffers the highest cost-of-living-adjusted poverty rate in the entire United States, a crisis manufactured by Sacramento’s...

Newsom’s Presidential Ambitions Died in Davos

January 23, 2026 7:23 amJanuary 23, 2026 7:23 am

California now accounts for roughly one quarter of the nation’s homeless, more than any other state by far. Since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, $37 billion has been spent on homelessness programs—yet the homeless population has grown by roughly...

Scarcity, Not Landlords, is Driving California’s Rent Crisis

January 19, 2026 2:45 pmJanuary 19, 2026 2:45 pm

California’s rent debate is often reduced to a simple story: tenants are hurting, and landlords are to blame. That narrative may be easy to repeat, but it overlooks some of the real causes of high rents. I have spent almost...

Rents Decline with Increased Border Security and Immigration Enforcement

November 4, 2025 2:33 pmNovember 4, 2025 2:38 pm

You don’t need to be an economics major to understand the cause and effect of Supply and Demand. The more Demand, the less Supply–which causes prices to increase. The less Demand causes more Supply, therefore prices decrease. This common sense...

Inflation is Down? What Are the Real Numbers and How Do We Access Them?

August 15, 2024 2:55 amAugust 15, 2024 6:37 am

Inflation is outpacing wages. But the left wants you to believe “Americans’ wages are finally outpacing inflation.” (Fake News). The Labor Department announced on Wednesday that the consumer price index rose 0.2% in July from the previous month, in line...