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Read the latest on California's push for reparations
Reparations – in California or Nationally – Will Bring Unnecessary Chaos
First, California was never a slave state, and was never in recent history a Jim Crow state. In fact, the Black population of California appears to be descended largely from Great Migration-era refugees who migrated there to escape historical Southern racism, and loved the place. Between 1910 and 1940 alone, ...
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Should Climate Change Be a Graduation Requirement?
“UCSD’s new course requirement;” she says, “is intended to prepare students for the future.” There’s nothing wrong with teaching climate science. It is a legitimate discipline, just as physics, meteorology, geology, oceanography and astronomy are academically valid sciences. But there’s no reason to require every candidate “for a bachelor’s degree” ...
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Western cities double down on taxes for failing transit
Western cities double down on taxes for failing transit By D. Dowd Muska | October 24, 2024 Well before COVID-19, transit was in big trouble. A 2018 analysis found that “factors such as lower fuel costs, increased teleworking, higher car ownership and the rise of alternatives such as Uber and Lyft” ...
Anti-Semitism
Read the latest on anti-Semitism at California's public colleges and universities
California Makes Significant Strides in Managing Pro-Palestine Protests at Public Universities
A year on from Hamas’s coordinated and heinous attack on Israel on October 7th 2023, the protests on college campuses in support of Palestine which swept the nation earlier this year show no signs of slowing. Under pressure from both their student bodies and donors, college administrators have struggled to ...
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The End of Violence? Not Quite.
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.” The numbers were indeed striking. In 1995, juvenile homicides stood at 382. By 2017, the latest year ...
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Read the latest about overregulation holding up new housing construction
White House rightly calls out onerous local permit hurdles
The post, published by the Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, correctly points out that discretionary permitting processes by their nature throw barriers before housing developments. This can slow or outright deter housing from being built. “With discretionary permitting, the proposal is subject to the approval of a public body, ...
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Shocker from Argentina: Free Markets Work in Housing, too
Shocker from Argentina: free markets work in housing, too William L. Anderson | October 18, 2024 Rent control is in the news both in California and elsewhere. In California, voters will decide Proposition 33, which would permit local governments to impose draconian rent controls and other restrictions on property owners ...
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Read about California's latest move against Elon Musk
SpaceX Delaunched In California
The California Coastal Commission voted 6-4 last week to oppose Musk’s plans to launch as many as 50 SpaceX rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Musk’s response was to take the agency to court, which he did Tuesday, claiming in a lawsuit that it ...
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Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
Agriculture
County fairs incubators for our next leaders, business owners
The air at county fairs is rarified in the hours before the food booths and carnival rides are open to the public. People can view exhibits in the various buildings on fairgrounds but the real stars at that time of day are the livestock shows. Kids, parents, indeed whole families ...
Read the latest on California's push for reparations
Reparations – in California or Nationally – Will Bring Unnecessary Chaos
First, California was never a slave state, and was never in recent history a Jim Crow state. In fact, the Black population of California appears to be descended largely from Great Migration-era refugees who migrated there to escape historical Southern racism, and loved the place. Between 1910 and 1940 alone, ...
Should Climate Change Be a Graduation Requirement?
“UCSD’s new course requirement;” she says, “is intended to prepare students for the future.” There’s nothing wrong with teaching climate science. It is a legitimate discipline, just as physics, meteorology, geology, oceanography and astronomy are academically valid sciences. But there’s no reason to require every candidate “for a bachelor’s degree” ...
Western cities double down on taxes for failing transit
Western cities double down on taxes for failing transit By D. Dowd Muska | October 24, 2024 Well before COVID-19, transit was in big trouble. A 2018 analysis found that “factors such as lower fuel costs, increased teleworking, higher car ownership and the rise of alternatives such as Uber and Lyft” ...
Read the latest on anti-Semitism at California's public colleges and universities
California Makes Significant Strides in Managing Pro-Palestine Protests at Public Universities
A year on from Hamas’s coordinated and heinous attack on Israel on October 7th 2023, the protests on college campuses in support of Palestine which swept the nation earlier this year show no signs of slowing. Under pressure from both their student bodies and donors, college administrators have struggled to ...
The End of Violence? Not Quite.
In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.” The numbers were indeed striking. In 1995, juvenile homicides stood at 382. By 2017, the latest year ...
Read the latest about overregulation holding up new housing construction
White House rightly calls out onerous local permit hurdles
The post, published by the Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisers, correctly points out that discretionary permitting processes by their nature throw barriers before housing developments. This can slow or outright deter housing from being built. “With discretionary permitting, the proposal is subject to the approval of a public body, ...
Shocker from Argentina: Free Markets Work in Housing, too
Shocker from Argentina: free markets work in housing, too William L. Anderson | October 18, 2024 Rent control is in the news both in California and elsewhere. In California, voters will decide Proposition 33, which would permit local governments to impose draconian rent controls and other restrictions on property owners ...
Read about California's latest move against Elon Musk
SpaceX Delaunched In California
The California Coastal Commission voted 6-4 last week to oppose Musk’s plans to launch as many as 50 SpaceX rockets a year from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County. Musk’s response was to take the agency to court, which he did Tuesday, claiming in a lawsuit that it ...
Rise Of The Machines
Some years ago, in 2018, when the minimum wage in California was $11 an hour for companies with 26 or more employees, a Pasadena burger joint hired a machine named Flippy to turn patties on the grill. “The world’s first autonomous kitchen assistant,” an “upgrade on a human line cook,” ...
County fairs incubators for our next leaders, business owners
The air at county fairs is rarified in the hours before the food booths and carnival rides are open to the public. People can view exhibits in the various buildings on fairgrounds but the real stars at that time of day are the livestock shows. Kids, parents, indeed whole families ...
