Not long ago, the sexualization of children in public schools was verboten. Abusers in the education system were actually prosecuted for luring a child for sex. Now, lawmakers like California’s Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) have authored legislation effectively legalizing...
We will take as a given for the purposes of this article that California has one actual political party. It is called the Democratic Party but could easily be called any number of things – the Bureaucratic Party, the Oligarch...
Many school districts in California have started teaching Ethnic Studies ahead of the state mandated timeline of 2025. This has come on the back of a multi-year movement to promote Ethnic Studies in K-12, a movement fraught with controversies and...
In 1996, an insurance company bought another one, the state got in the middle, and the California Endowment was born. When Blue Cross of California acquired the for-profit subsidiary WellPoint Health Networks, state regulators demanded a non-profit health-care focused foundation...
Labor Code Division 2, Part 3, Chapter 7.5 discusses collective bargaining agreements, which was added in 1941 by Chapter 1188. Labor Code Section 1126 provides that any collective bargaining agreement between an employer and a labor organization is enforceable at...
One of my favorite writers ever was the inimitable Erma Bombeck. Dubbed the “Socrates of the ironing board” by Life magazine, she was the queen of sassy, funny, irony and reality. Bombeck was a syndicated columnist, author, sitcom writer, “Good...
“With a ‘Reparations Management Council’ to operate independent of the government of San Francisco, what could possibly go wrong?” the Globe asked earlier this week. San Francisco resident Richie Greenberg has identified that the San Francisco Reparations Plan “installs a...