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National Right to Work Foundation Sues UCLA Over Public Records Request for Union ‘Strategic Research’ Workshops

November 20, 2025 10:26 amNovember 20, 2025 10:26 am

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has just filed a lawsuit against the University of California at Los Angeles. The case challenges the university’s failure to produce public records regarding two conferences promoting aggressive union campaign tactics. Foundation...

Former AZ Rep Austin Smith to Be Sentenced for Petition Forgery

November 20, 2025 10:12 amNovember 20, 2025 10:12 am

Former Arizona State Representative Austin Smith, a Republican who represented Legislative District 29 from 2023 to 2025 and a former senior director at Turning Point Action, is scheduled to be sentenced on January 6, 2026, after pleading guilty to charges...

Ringside: Shifting Costs Does Not Solve California’s Electricity Shortages

November 20, 2025 2:55 amNovember 20, 2025 2:56 am

California’s Little Hoover Commission was created in 1962 “as an independent and bipartisan state agency charged with making recommendations to the governor and Legislature on ways to make state programs more efficient.” Funded by taxpayers, officially nonpartisan, they’ve just released a set of...

The Innovative Wealth Tax That Could Break California

November 19, 2025 1:54 pmNovember 19, 2025 1:55 pm

California is not only the home of innovative technology; sadly, it is also the home of innovative tax ideas. The latest breakthrough is a one-time billionaire wealth tax levied on a retroactive basis. But while the union, the former Clinton...

Report: California Faces $18 Billion Budget Shortfall

November 19, 2025 1:51 pmNovember 19, 2025 1:51 pm

The nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) today released a grim fiscal outlook for the 2026-2027 budget year (see below), warning “budget problem now larger than anticipated” with an $18 billion shortfall. Their estimate is $5 billion more than what...

Read the Room Sac County Supervisors: Another Solar Farm Approval is Another Failed Experiment

November 19, 2025 12:04 pmNovember 19, 2025 12:07 pm

In a glaring case of willful stupidity, a proposed 2,700-acre solar farm project east of Rancho Cordova in Sacramento County was just unanimously approved by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors in an effort to provide “carbon-free power.” The project...

Governor Swalwell? Rep Eric Swalwell Eyes Gubernatorial Bid

November 18, 2025 2:32 pmNovember 18, 2025 2:33 pm

“Not if but when” POLITICO reports on the near certainty that California Congresssman Eric Swalwell will run for California governor as a “moderate alternative to Katie Porter.” With the bar set that low, Swalwell will simply need to answer a...