When asked in a recent interview why California has the highest gasoline prices in the nation, Jodie Muller, the President of the Western States Petroleum Association, began by stating the following: “You can’t point a finger at one particular person, because, unfortunately, it is decades of policies layered on top of one another. You have local air...
SAN BERNARDINO, CA — The Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) has filed a motion to dissolve a 2024 court-ordered injunction that blocked the district’s parental notification policy. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta, Chino Valley is going back to court to remove the original injunction against it. In March,...
A bill quietly moving through the Legislature would gut California’s 2013 pension reforms and plunge the state back toward the kind of fiscal crisis that forced lawmakers to enact the Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act (PEPRA) in an effort to stabilize a system that was spiraling out of control. AB 1383 (McKinnor) would expand the...
Why students’ history proficiency goes unmeasured, and how a politicized framework is undermining classroom instruction. California has no reliable way to measure whether students are meeting state history and social studies standards. In Gavin Newsom’s State of the State speech in January 2026, he claimed that California has seen “improved academic achievement in every subject...
Even if the most dire climate scenarios are accurate, and humanity must transition away from fossil fuel, it can’t happen overnight. The rational approach is to first develop alternative sources of energy without precipitously destroying the industries that reliably produce oil and natural gas. Once alternatives are available at a competitive price and in sufficient...
California’s state legislature may succeed in destroying its own oil industry, but it won’t change anything in the world. It will only export jobs and raise the cost-of-living here at home. Here’s a reality check. According to the Statistical Review of World Energy, in 2024, oil, natural gas, and coal contributed 87 percent of the world’s...
Last week, KCRA 3 in Sacramento reported that the Newsom administration’s January budget contained a roughly $2 billion accounting error tied to CalPERS pension contributions. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office flagged the problem in February. Legislative leaders knew. The public didn’t find out until April. The story is genuinely newsworthy, but not for the reason...
Abundance, and its political twin, affordability, are now bipartisan mantras, but cannot be realized if the only permissible avenues are via urban infill, renewable energy, and water rationing. California is uniquely positioned to do much more. Breakthrough technologies and big projects, both pioneered here, could unite a powerful coalition of farmers, energy companies, high tech...
San Francisco and Portland are the only two US cities that tax companies if the pay ratio between the CEO and other employees is “too high.”. After agreeing to lower this tax in 2024 via Proposition M, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its organized labor allies are pushing a ballot measure to raise...
Over the last ten years, residential electricity rates in California have nearly doubled, and the average California household now pays nearly 15% more than the national average on their monthly electricity bills, according to the Energy Information Administration. A key driver behind this is state climate policy and decarbonization mandates. Specifically, in 2015, the legislature...
If you listen to the buzz in progressive state capitols and city halls across the country, or read Ezra Klein’s Abundance, you’d think our biggest problem is a crisis of state capacity. Klein, and a growing number of progressives, share a vision of a liberalism that builds. They argue that the government has become proficient...
California’s state government has set an official goal of “net zero” by 2045. That’s less than 19 years from now. Already in pursuit of that goal, the state has managed to have the highest priced gasoline and the highest priced electricity in the entire continental United States. Condemning its residents to a poverty inducing bleeding...
Rocklin Unified School District (RUSD) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday in a case challenging the authority of California’s labor relations board to override the constitutional rights of parents. In the petition filed on behalf of RUSD by California Justice Center and the Liberty Justice Center,...