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Mayor Daniel Lurie slashes red tape in San Francisco
Mayor Daniel Lurie slashes red tape in San Francisco By Sal Rodriguez | September 15, 2025 Since taking office in January, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has made streamlining his city’s notoriously challenging regulatory processes a top priority. In February, Lurie established PermitSF, a multi-agency effort tasked with speeding up ...
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Je suis Charlie
On Wednesday, September 10, Charlie Kirk went to Utah and was killed. He went there to visit the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) as part of his role as president of Turning Point USA – a conservative student organization he founded that boasts over 800 chapters and tens of ...
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Violent crime lessons from D.C., as it faces spike in carjackings
Violent crime lessons from D.C., as it faces spike in carjackings Jeremy Lott | September 5, 2025 Editor’s Note: This is the first of two columns addressing crime in Washington, D.C. This one addresses the problem that has grown over the first half of this decade. The next one will ...
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Juvenile justice reforms drive a spike in criminal offenses
Juvenile crime in California is rising – and rising by a lot. Last year, the number of juveniles arrested for all types of offenses reached 32,874, which was a staggering increase of 70 percent from just a few years ago in 2021, and since 2019 juvenile homicides rose 82 percent. ...
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Read the latest on the LA ICE riots
ICE in California – Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
On May 20, 50 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials including all regional field office directors and an assortment of Homeland Security special agents and investigators were summoned to Washington DC by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Miller is the point man for the Trump administration’s plan ...
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Crime in California 2024
Crime in California 2024 by Steve Smith | July 15, 2025 On July 1, as it has for over 50 years, the California Department of Justice released three statistical reports covering crime in general, homicides, and juvenile crime. On the positive side, there are some reductions particularly in violent crime ...
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Read about California's growing crime problem
Violent Crime in California– The Newsom Years, 2019-2023
Newsom, in turn, called out the murder rates in each of the lawmakers’ home states, proclaiming that Alabama had “…3X the murder rate of California”, Oklahoma had a murder rate “…40 % higher than California’s” and Arkansas was “literally DOUBLE California’s”. In order for Newsom’s posts on X to be ...
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Newsom and the National Guard
Newsom’s office stated that the president’s order and the presence of the guard: “not only caused widespread panic and chaos, but have unnecessarily created an additional diversion of resources as the state tries to calm a community terrorized by this reckless federal action.” In fact, the “panic and chaos” was ...
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Getting it all wrong about the other city by the bay
To be charitable, miners brave enough to go digging can discover occasional nuggets of value in Madrigal’s ponderous, and entirely predictable, jeremiad. For example: Oakland had its own version of the urban-renewal thuggery that would eventually lead to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London. In ...
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Read the latest about the LA ICE riots
The Challenge of Democratic Policing
News of the fairly small federal enforcement action spread quickly amongst opponents of immigration enforcement, and based on the flags and signs, a host of other political causes as well, resulting in days of riots, assaults on police officers, arson, and vandalism. The situation is made more confusing in California ...
Mayor Daniel Lurie slashes red tape in San Francisco
Mayor Daniel Lurie slashes red tape in San Francisco By Sal Rodriguez | September 15, 2025 Since taking office in January, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has made streamlining his city’s notoriously challenging regulatory processes a top priority. In February, Lurie established PermitSF, a multi-agency effort tasked with speeding up ...
Je suis Charlie
On Wednesday, September 10, Charlie Kirk went to Utah and was killed. He went there to visit the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) as part of his role as president of Turning Point USA – a conservative student organization he founded that boasts over 800 chapters and tens of ...
Violent crime lessons from D.C., as it faces spike in carjackings
Violent crime lessons from D.C., as it faces spike in carjackings Jeremy Lott | September 5, 2025 Editor’s Note: This is the first of two columns addressing crime in Washington, D.C. This one addresses the problem that has grown over the first half of this decade. The next one will ...
Juvenile justice reforms drive a spike in criminal offenses
Juvenile crime in California is rising – and rising by a lot. Last year, the number of juveniles arrested for all types of offenses reached 32,874, which was a staggering increase of 70 percent from just a few years ago in 2021, and since 2019 juvenile homicides rose 82 percent. ...
Read the latest on the LA ICE riots
ICE in California – Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
On May 20, 50 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials including all regional field office directors and an assortment of Homeland Security special agents and investigators were summoned to Washington DC by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Miller is the point man for the Trump administration’s plan ...
Crime in California 2024
Crime in California 2024 by Steve Smith | July 15, 2025 On July 1, as it has for over 50 years, the California Department of Justice released three statistical reports covering crime in general, homicides, and juvenile crime. On the positive side, there are some reductions particularly in violent crime ...
Read about California's growing crime problem
Violent Crime in California– The Newsom Years, 2019-2023
Newsom, in turn, called out the murder rates in each of the lawmakers’ home states, proclaiming that Alabama had “…3X the murder rate of California”, Oklahoma had a murder rate “…40 % higher than California’s” and Arkansas was “literally DOUBLE California’s”. In order for Newsom’s posts on X to be ...
Newsom and the National Guard
Newsom’s office stated that the president’s order and the presence of the guard: “not only caused widespread panic and chaos, but have unnecessarily created an additional diversion of resources as the state tries to calm a community terrorized by this reckless federal action.” In fact, the “panic and chaos” was ...
Getting it all wrong about the other city by the bay
To be charitable, miners brave enough to go digging can discover occasional nuggets of value in Madrigal’s ponderous, and entirely predictable, jeremiad. For example: Oakland had its own version of the urban-renewal thuggery that would eventually lead to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London. In ...
Read the latest about the LA ICE riots
The Challenge of Democratic Policing
News of the fairly small federal enforcement action spread quickly amongst opponents of immigration enforcement, and based on the flags and signs, a host of other political causes as well, resulting in days of riots, assaults on police officers, arson, and vandalism. The situation is made more confusing in California ...
