CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/04/2017

5 Bills for California Employers to Track in 2017

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:48 pm
Sacramento works hard to kill jobs directly and to make jobs too expensive to fill and use.  We are a State that still forces workers to pay bribes to work, pay for health care that is mediocre at best and deadly at worst.  We make it so expensive to hire employees—and due to State laws, […]

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Assemblyman Travis Allen Calls for Leave Without Pay for UC Berkeley Chancellor for Role in Inciting Riot on Wednesday Night

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:42 pm
The Chancellor of UC Berkeley allowed a riot on his campus—with only ONE person arrested.  He charged a Young Republican group $7,000 to provide security for a speaker—when it is the responsibility of the University to create security on campus (the good news is that because of the riot, the Chancellor is giving the money […]

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AQMD postpones vote on how to cut smog by nearly 50 percent in 7 years

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:38 pm
The AQMD of the Los Angeles voted to postpone a vote to kill almost all jobs in Southern California.  Good thinking.  The Obama Administration created new Federal air standard, to kill off what is left of manufacturing in this country, along with many other industries.  Los Angeles was about to sign its death warrant by […]

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Silicon Valley Workers: Working HARD to Kill Their Own Jobs!!

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:35 pm
You would think that tech workers in Silicon Valley would be among the smartest in our country.  In fact, most are dumber than a door nail.  How dumb? “This week, more than 2,000 Google employees walked out of work to protest President Trump’s immigration ban. Far from disciplining them for leaving their desks, CEO Sundar […]

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FINANCIAL TIME BOMB? CalSTRS Killing School District/Teachers Pay

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:33 pm
In 2021 California teachers will be paying 19.1% of their salary to CalSTRS, with the district adding another 19.1%, on average.  That means teachers will take a cut in take home pay and districts will cut back on repairs, technology and curriculum.  It is an economic and educational disaster.  The Manteca District is in even […]

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California poverty: The high cost of just about everything

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:28 pm
I should not have to remind the readers of the California Political news and Views that the former Golden States has the highest cost of housing, buying or renting, in the nation.  We have the second highest gas taxes, highest income and corporate taxes, we pay twice as much as Texans for electricity while commercial/industry […]

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Runner: Taxes not the answer to road repairs

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:25 pm
My good friend George Runner is really a great friend of the taxpayers and families of California.  He understands the value of the dollar even if California government agencies do not.  Guv Brown has a plan to raise gas taxes by 42% and add $65 to the cost of vehicle registrations—with that money going to […]

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Guv Brown Moving to Take Over Electricity for Eleven Western States!

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:22 pm
Governor Brown, acting like a President has signed agreements with foreign nations, like Venezuela.  He has created multi-regional agencies among many States.  Now the States re fighting back—the eleven Western States have formed a western regional electric grid system.  Now it is in doubt because President Brown, ur, Governor Brown, wants to run it and […]

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How L.A. City Council—With MASSIVE Deficit—Waste its Time

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:20 pm
The city of Los Angeles has lost its middle class, has a deficit of $234 million, on the way to one billion dollars in three years.  The schools are a failure, streets are a wreck, in many places LA looks like a third world country.  Crime is spiking and the police are protecting criminals from […]

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Anti-Islamophobia Training Rolls Out In San Diego Schools

By Stephen Frank on Feb 03, 2017 08:18 pm
San Diego schools are so hard up for “educators” that they are using personnel from an organization close to radicals to put in the classroom.  then the radicals will “teach” about Islam—wonder if they will discuss ISIS, terrorism, Orlando, Ft. Hood or San Bernardino—other to say they had nothing to do with it. “In the […]

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