On Labor Day, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 257, which puts a 13-member board of political appointees with virtually unlimited authority to set wages, benefits
In an article on Monday about city council and school board races in Orange County, the Voice of OC quoted Fullerton College political science professor Jodi Balma:
In response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the state legislature has voted to place on the November 2022 ballot
Histories shows that revolutionaries tend to eat their own as their revolutionary moment accelerates. The knives come out for those comrades deemed insufficiently radical or
Common sense tells us if you raise the cost of making something, you’ll get less of it. The Santa Ana City Council’s progressive majority recently
The most powerful vehicle in California campaign politics is a creature known as the independent expenditure committee. Unlike a candidate-controlled campaign committee, “IEs” – as
You’ve got to hand it to Governor Newsom: he knows how to take a straightforward problem and come up with a “solution” that is simultaneously
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.“ -Eric Hoffer, American philosopher When it comes to the
Many of us are old enough to remember when Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday were honored with their own particular holidays, rather than combined in
Call it “Correaflation.” Because blame for higher prices has to go to those who caused it. Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, just tweeted, “Today’s inflation
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