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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...

Financial Support of Parents in California

November 20, 2025 2:30 amNovember 20, 2025 2:31 am

Section 4400 requires an adult child, to the extent of the adult child’s ability, support a parent who is in need and unable to self-maintain by work. Section 4401 makes the promise of an adult child to pay for necessaries...

Taxation and Bonding for California Harbor Districts

November 19, 2025 2:00 pmNovember 19, 2025 2:01 pm

Division 8, Part 3, Chapter 3 concerns taxation and bonds used with harbor districts. Section 6090 states that all bonds issued are obligations of the district and, so long as the bonds are outstanding and unpaid, the board of supervisors...

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...