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Taxpayer ROI: How Many California Cities are Running Huge Budget Deficits

April 6, 2026 5:00 amApril 6, 2026 10:39 am

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett announced the March jobs report – the U.S. saw 178,000 jobs added and a 4.3% unemployment rate. But not in California. According to the California Employment Development Department, California’s unemployment rate came in at...

Eric Swalwell Demands FBI Halt Release of Chinese Spy Files

March 31, 2026 3:28 pmMarch 31, 2026 3:33 pm

California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Livermore) escalated his war with the Trump administration’s FBI on Monday, dispatching lawyers with a cease-and-desist letter to Director Kash Patel demanding the bureau immediately cease any effort to release decade-old investigative files...

Mamdani Proposes ‘White Homes’ Estate Tax; California Pushes Billionaire Tax

March 24, 2026 8:12 amMarch 24, 2026 12:22 pm

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is attempting to increase the estate tax “by lowering the exemption to $750,000 from its current value of $7.1 million” and massively raising the “top rate from 16% to 50%,” proclaiming his own apartheid. $750,000...

California’s Fast Food Minimum Wage Continues to Bite Workers, Consumers and Owners

March 20, 2026 4:40 amMarch 20, 2026 4:41 am

California is reaching a grim two-year anniversary of the ill-advised $20 fast food minimum wage. AB 1228, California’s $20 wage law for fast food workers, cost non-tipped restaurant workers 250 hours of work annually, equating to up to 7 weeks...

Ninth Circuit Delivers Blow to Federal Unions, Upholds Trump Executive Order on National Security Exemptions

February 27, 2026 9:51 amFebruary 27, 2026 10:25 am

In a significant victory for the Trump administration’s efforts to streamline federal operations and prioritize national security, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated (see below) a lower court’s preliminary injunction against Executive Order 14251. The ruling,...

Gavin Newsom’s Sunday Circuit on Affordability is Dishonest

February 23, 2026 12:26 pmFebruary 23, 2026 12:26 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom was cornered by Dana Bash on CNN Sunday about California’s affordability crisis. She said she was out to dinner in Nashville and met a California couple who had moved to Tennessee because they could not afford...

New BLS Data Shows Union Membership Drives Falling Flat

February 19, 2026 12:33 pmFebruary 19, 2026 12:33 pm

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that private-sector union membership remains at an all-time low of 5.9 percent. This comes despite recruitment efforts from major unions, like the SEIU and the UAW, who have spent vast amounts...