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LAUSD Strike: Teachers Union ‘Insulted’ by Latest Offer

January 14, 2019 1:25 amJanuary 16, 2019 1:49 pm

Gov. Gavin Newson has only been governor for seven days and is already facing the first strike in 30 years at the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district. The United Teachers of Los Angeles labor...

The Impact of the State Budget on California Public Policy

January 11, 2019 9:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

California’s budget process continues to have a major impact on the state’s public policy agenda. Why? Because numerous policy changes are enacted each year as part of the budget process. In other words, public policy continues to be done as...

What’s In Gavin Newsom’s 2019 ‘California For All’ Budget

January 11, 2019 5:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

Self-described policy wonk Gov. Gavin Newsom presented his first Budget Summary 2019-20 Thursday – all 178 pages of it. “Full disclosure, this is something I really enjoy,” Newsom said. Newsom inherited a significant surplus of $15 billion and the...

Democratic Donor Ed Buck Gave to Newsom and Brown

January 10, 2019 5:52 pmJanuary 15, 2019 10:50 am

When a second younger black man turned up dead in the apartment of Los Angeles Democratic donor Ed Buck, questions are being raised about whether investigators were too hasty to dismiss the first instance 18 months ago. Now, the Daily...

Sacramento City Unified Financial Crisis Is No Surprise

January 10, 2019 1:00 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:04 pm

Sacramento City Unified School District recently announced it could run out of money by the end of 2019. Its statement warned it “would not have enough cash to cover employee payroll, payments to vendors and others.” I’m not surprised. It...

Trump Threatens to Pull FEMA Funds from California

January 9, 2019 2:17 pmJanuary 11, 2019 8:21 am

President Donald J. Trump threatened to withhold emergency FEMA funding for wildfire relief if California can’t get its act together and start doing proper forest management. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that,...

Daraka Larimore-Hall Throws Hat in Ring for Dem Chair

January 9, 2019 10:59 amJanuary 9, 2019 7:15 pm

Even as an internal party simmers in Washington, as moderate Democrats struggle to curb the influence of progressives, it seems a similar dilemma is occurring in one of the nation’s most liberal states, as several prominent Democratic figures fight for...