For the past several months, UNITE-HERE Local 11 has been banging the “living wage” drum as it worked to qualify its wage-and-work-rules initiative for the
After hearing from a throng of family-owned, independent hotels warning a drastic, union-sponsored work rules and wage spike initiative poses a mortal threat to their
On March 28, the Santa Ana Unified School District Board of Education unanimously approved paying for the $186 annual dues for Trustee Alfonso Alvarez’s membership
The so-called “Hotel Worker Protection Initiative” sponsored by UNITE-HERE Local 11 is a manifestation of either the militant union’s economic ignorance, hostility toward free enterprise,
On May 16, the Anaheim City Council will have its first opportunity to weigh in on UNITE-HERE Local 11’s ballot measure that would dramatically increase the cost
State Senator Dave Min, a progressive OC Democrat running for Congress, was arrested last nightfor drunk driving yesterday in Sacramento. He was released this morning
The OC Taxpayers Association, in conjunction with the Association of California Cities-OC, is hosting a panel of Orange County’s “big city” mayors on May 12.
Berkeley Unified School District has created a reparations task force. Yes, a school district that never enslaved people inside a state where slavery was never
A progressive-Left advocacy group, VietRise, is recruiting canvassers at $22 an hour for a six-week organizing campaign targeting mobile home parks in Little Saigon, as
On February 21, the Huntington Beach City Council voted 4-3 to adopt new rules governing what flags will be flown at city facilities. Under the
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