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Exodus: Digital Realty Trust, Stitch Fix, and Miami Billboards

Exodus: Digital Realty Trust, Stitch Fix, and Miami Billboards

Every week, we recognize some businesses or people that are leaving or have left the Golden State and some of the biggest stories regarding the exoduses. To access The California Book of Exoduses: CLICK HERE Digital Realty Trust On January 14, Digital Realty Trust, a $36 billion company with over 1,500 employees, announced their relocation...

By Brandon Ristoff

California’s Bureaucracies Fail to Submit Timely Financial Data

California’s Bureaucracies Fail to Submit Timely Financial Data

With Californians about to enter their second year of restricted economic activity, and with all the resulting financial anxiety and hardship, it’s unfortunate that accurate and timely financial information isn’t available for the vast public sector. While public sector budgets and projections abound, actual audited financial data for recently completed fiscal years is subject to...

By Edward Ring

The Final Sprint: Nine Out of the Ten Largest California Counties Reach Newsom’s Benchmark to Reopen K-6 Schools

The Final Sprint: Nine Out of the Ten Largest California Counties Reach Newsom’s Benchmark to Reopen K-6 Schools

CLICK HERE to see which benchmarks your county has passed this week. Last week, we examined the different benchmarks that could be used to determine whether schools in California counties could be allowed to reopen. We’ve now updated this analysis and found that the vast majority of the state meets Gov. Newsom’s Safe Schools for...

By Brandon Ristoff

Elite Private Schools Go Woke

Elite Private Schools Go Woke

Some parents are paying $50,000 a year for their kids to be indoctrinated. Colleges have been fertile fields of woke craziness for years now. Just a few recent examples: Middlebury College Professor Jonathan Miller-Lane claims that “To preserve American democracy, Whiteness must be demilitarized so that bodies designated as ‘White’ might become human.” A Washington...

By Larry Sand

Letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

Letter to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)

In a little-known and influential institution, a group of experts at the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) regularly update best practices and standards for government financial practices and procedures. They are best recognized for their generally accepted accounting principles. As described in their website, “GASB develops and issues accounting standards through a transparent and inclusive...

By Jordan Bruneau

When Will School Reopen – CPC Newsletter

When Will School Reopen – CPC Newsletter

Newsom signals school reopening deal coming any day now: On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he’s close to striking a deal with the state’s powerful teachers unions to reopen elementary classrooms. The sticking point is vaccines, which unions are demanding for teachers before they return. Newsom explained that full teacher vaccination before school reopening is not realistic. Expect...

By Jordan Bruneau

Exodus: ZP Better Together, Salesforce, and Dee Dee Myers

Exodus: ZP Better Together, Salesforce, and Dee Dee Myers

Every week, we recognize some businesses or people that are leaving or have left the Golden State and some of the biggest stories regarding the exoduses. To access The California Book of Exoduses: CLICK HERE ZP Better Together ZP Better Together is a communications company focusing on providing services for those who are deaf or...

By Brandon Ristoff

Should My School Be Open?: Looking at Alternative Benchmarks for Reopening Schools

Should My School Be Open?: Looking at Alternative Benchmarks for Reopening Schools

CLICK HERE to see the which benchmarks your county has passed. It has now been over a month since Governor Newsom introduced his Safe Schools for All plan, which would have allowed schools to reopen soon. How has the school reopening situation changed since then? Newsom’s plan did not receive the necessary legislative approval by...

By Brandon Ristoff

The Consequences of Centrally Planned Compassion

The Consequences of Centrally Planned Compassion

Sixty years ago, when California was governed by people who were sane pragmatists, homes were affordable and very few people were homeless. To support new housing, government funds were focused on building enabling infrastructure. California’s freeways and expressways connected new suburbs to urban cores, and the California Water Project delivered abundant water to the growing...

By Edward Ring

The Wacky Woke Pandemic

The Wacky Woke Pandemic

The resegregation, victimization and historical manipulation of America is advancing. The radical rambling of the woke crowd – those who want to restructure society by dividing America according race – is advancing, and things are getting truly bizarre.  Seattle’s k-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework teaches that “Western” math is a means of “power and oppression,”...

By Larry Sand

Abraham Lincoln Didn’t Show That Black Lives Ever Mattered? – CPC Newsletter

Abraham Lincoln Didn’t Show That Black Lives Ever Mattered? – CPC Newsletter

Gov. Newsom’s poll numbers are plummeting: After committing countless Covid-19-related unforced errors and still unable to get California schools reopened, Gov. Newsom’s popularity is plummeting. A new Berkeley poll released this week finds that just 46 percent of registered voters approve of Newsom’s performance as governor, while 48 percent disapprove, 31 percent of whom disapprove strongly. Newsom’s underwater...

By Jordan Bruneau

The California Book of Exoduses

The California Book of Exoduses

For the first time in its history, California experienced a loss in population in 2020. The trend continued into 2022, by which time California had lost more than a half-million people in two years.  But while California’s extreme COVID policies that shuttered businesses and schools accelerated the California Exodus, the trend existed long before the...

By Sheridan Karras

How Legislators Can Reopen California

How Legislators Can Reopen California

There are smart ways to protect the vulnerable and reopen businesses and churches and schools, but California’s legislators continue to do nothing. Instead, edicts issued from the governor’s office have the state in an ongoing lockdown, despite growing evidence there are safe alternatives.  Last month an event held in the Sacramento area, “Re-Open Cal Now,”...

By Edward Ring

Child Suicide, Covid, and the Unions

Child Suicide, Covid, and the Unions

The teachers unions’ resistance to opening schools is killing kids…literally. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 6 percent of U.S. children aged 6 through 17 are afflicted with autism, severe anxiety, depression, trauma-related mental health conditions, and other serious emotional or behavioral difficulties. Due to forced school lockdowns, many of these...

By Larry Sand