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Listen: The coming bacon apocalypse

Listen: The coming bacon apocalypse

In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the breakfast panic making its way to California: a potential bacon shortage caused by taxpayers. In recall news, the race is tightening and Governor Gavin Newsom has called the one and only Elizabeth Warren for help. California’s...

More union-induced GPA inflation

More union-induced GPA inflation

It’s not everyday that a parent gets an email from their school district telling them that they can change their child’s grade if they didn’t like the last one. It’s even more surreal that the legislature thought that this was a good policy. With few exceptions, nearly every legislator voted to approve AB 104 by...

By Lance Christensen

The annual teacher shortage canard

The annual teacher shortage canard

Despite our ever-changing world, there are some annual events we can all count on: the earth will circle the sun, Christmas will be celebrated December 25th, and the California legislature will raise taxes on its citizens. And we can now add that list – howling from the media and the teachers unions that America has...

By Larry Sand

Back to school?

Back to school?

I want to believe that California’s public schools will reopen this fall. I really do. When the Los Angeles Unified School District and United Teachers Los Angeles finally reached an agreement in late June to fully reopen schools this fall, I was cautiously optimistic. Los Angeles was the major holdout in the state, remaining more...

By Chantal Lovell

Defective bargaining

Defective bargaining

A challenger for governor of California could radically improve education with one executive order. In a recent opinion piece in The Epoch Times, veteran writer John Seiler put forth a set of strategies for a Republican to beat California Governor Gavin Newsom in the state’s September 14th recall election. Among other things, he suggests that...

By Larry Sand

Fixing California- A review

Fixing California- A review

Forty-some-odd candidates have officially thrown their hats into the ring to replace Governor Gavin Newsom if voters recall him September 14. The list is a mere fraction of the 135 who faced off during the 2003 Gray Davis recall election, and, dare I say, a generally saner, though less well-known, bunch. There are a handful...

By Chantal Lovell

Use federal aid on students, not unions

Use federal aid on students, not unions

Editor’s note: This column is an expansion of a piece the author previously published in CalMatters on July 22, 2021. You can read that piece here. A massive battle is about to hit California school districts, and parents must prepare to fight for their students. Through a series of federal relief packages passed in Washington,...

By Chantal Lovell

Listen: A bridge too Ferrer

Listen: A bridge too Ferrer

Latest episode of the Radio Free California podcast is out! In this week’s episode of National Review’s Radio Free California Podcast, CPC’s Will Swaim and David Bahnsen discuss the resurgence of mask mandates, brought to you by Los Angeles County Director of Public Health, Dr. Barbara Ferrer. And, with Governor Gavin Newsom’s recall election in...

By Editorial Staff

Fixing California: The complete series

Fixing California: The complete series

In this nine-part series, Edward Ring, a contributing editor for the California Policy Center, tackles California’s greatest challenges and opportunities, laying out solutions that will ensure its residents have the resources they need to prosper for generations to come. “Consider California in 2050, with the people fulfilling every bit of their potential and realizing their...

By Editorial Staff

Fixing California- Part nine: The prosperity economy

Fixing California- Part nine: The prosperity economy

Editor’s note: This is the seventh article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, the second here, the third here, the fourth here, the fifth here, the sixth here, the seventh here, and the eighth here. The policy topics considered in this series—energy, water, transportation, housing, law enforcement and the homeless, forestry,...

By Edward Ring

2,000 CA jobs headed to Florida’s Walt Disney World

2,000 CA jobs headed to Florida’s Walt Disney World

The Happiest Place on Earth might not be in Southern California Disney’s most recent business announcement will be a fairy tale ending for the company’s bottom line. According to an internal staff letter published by Deadline, the Walt Disney Company will move over 2,000 employees from Southern California to Orlando, Florida over the next eighteen...

By Brandon Ristoff