Bakersfield Sets Example for Other Cities in Holding Protester Accountable
Bakersfield Sets Example for Other Cities in Holding Protester Accountable
Bakersfield’s City Council Meeting took an unexpected turn recently when Bakersfield resident Riddhi Patel threatened the mayor and council members and was subsequently arrested. Patel attended the meeting to support the ratification of the United Liberation Front’s proposed resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, but her remarks quickly devolved into an expletive-filled diatribe about the...
By Abby Lehnig, Christian Mayer
Los Angeles County’s Cities Staying Financially Stable, With a Few Exceptions
Los Angeles County’s Cities Staying Financially Stable, With a Few Exceptions
The city of Compton wins the laggard award for Los Angeles County’s 88 cities in releasing its June 30, 2021, annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR). It was completed by its auditing firm on May 8 and presented to its city council on June 4 of this year. The customary completion date by the outside independent...
By John Moorlach
Higher Education Doesn’t Have to Happen on a College Campus
Higher Education Doesn’t Have to Happen on a College Campus
With my children slowly matriculating through K-12 schools, my wife and I have wrestled with the wisdom of sending them to college. We’re both college graduates, but we are concerned by the inflated costs, diminished value of degrees, and institutions surrendering to radical ideologies. Many jobs no longer require a four-year degree, and online education...
By Lance Christensen
California Lawmakers Sacrifice Education for Politics with AB 1955
California Lawmakers Sacrifice Education for Politics with AB 1955
While California faces a significant decline in educational outcomes, student enrollment, and a fiscal crisis, progressives in the state legislature are more concerned with targeting parents than improving schools. Assembly Bill 1955, introduced by Assemblyman Chris Ward (D-San Diego), aims to ban parental notification policies passed by a growing number of California school districts over...
By Andrew Davenport
CLEO Director Mari Barke Testifies before Congress
CLEO Director Mari Barke Testifies before Congress
On June 4, 2024, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a hearing on “The Consequences of Biden’s Border Chaos for K-12 Schools.” Mari Barke, Director of CPC’s California Local Elected Officials, testified before the Subcommittee on the impact of illegal immigration on California’s K-12...
By California Policy Center
Forest Thinning Adds Millions of Acre-Feet to California’s Water Supply
Forest Thinning Adds Millions of Acre-Feet to California’s Water Supply
Practical solutions to California’s energy and water shortages will always have a better chance of being implemented if they adhere to the limitations placed upon them by the climate lobby. Thankfully there are numerous solutions, strategic in their impact, that would fulfill this criteria. Sadly, however, most of them remain controversial. Examples of climate compliant...
By Edward Ring
Special Book Signing Event with Author Dr. Corey DeAngelis
Special Book Signing Event with Author Dr. Corey DeAngelis
Join California Policy Center for a special book signing event with author Dr. Corey DeAngelis on Wednesday, June 5th from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in Orange County. DeAngelis’s new book, The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, takes readers inside the parent movement like no one else can. DeAngelis has traveled from state to state, leading one of the most effective...
By California Policy Center
Federal Coronavirus Funding Boosted San Diego County’s City Finances
Federal Coronavirus Funding Boosted San Diego County’s City Finances
For the 12 months ending on June 30, 2022, the coronavirus lockdown by California Gov. Gavin Newsom was still in effect. His implementation of this lengthy and heavy-handed measure would be in place for another eight months. But, in March 2022, the Federal Reserve Board made the first of 11 interest rate hikes to slow...
By John Moorlach
The Abundance Mindset
The Abundance Mindset
If energy powers modern civilization, then water gives it life. And in California, for at least the last 20 years, with escalating severity, life has been tough. There isn’t enough water to go around. Water scarcity is not being forced upon Californians by climate change. Like so many other fundamental challenges Californians must endure –...
By Edward Ring
AB 1955’s assault on parental rights and local school boards
AB 1955’s assault on parental rights and local school boards
Just when you think California legislators can’t thumb their noses at parents any harder, Assemblyman Christopher Ward (D-San Diego) introduced a bill this week that aims to strip control from local school boards. Ward’s AB 1955 — the Orwellian-named SAFETY Act — is an attempt to override the parental notification policies passed by a growing number of...
By California Policy Center
The Crossroads of Kern County
The Crossroads of Kern County
With chronic uncertainty over water allocations for farm irrigation, and relentless and escalating regulatory assaults on its oil industry, the biggest economic sectors of Kern County are threatened. The irony is thick. Food and fuel are the prerequisites for civilization – the enabling foundation for California’s entire much broader and often spectacular economy – and...
By Edward Ring
Can City Budgets Be Tightened Up, or Should Taxpayers Pay More?
Can City Budgets Be Tightened Up, or Should Taxpayers Pay More?
The second fiscal year after the implementation of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus lockdown for San Diego County’s 18 cities saw Del Mar bounce back up in fiscal rankings (see “City of San Diego Fell Behind $191 Million in First Year of Pandemic,” May 15, 2024). The fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, also saw the...
By John Moorlach
Three Wins for Common Sense
Three Wins for Common Sense
In a significant win for parental rights this week, the Jurupa Unified School Board agreed to pay California teacher Jessica Tapia $360,000 to settle her lawsuit for wrongful termination. The case has drawn national attention to the plight of teachers being illegally directed by California education officials to keep secrets from parents when their child...
By California Policy Center
Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism, Inc.
Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism, Inc.
The California Environmental Quality Act was passed by the state legislature in 1971. At that time, it was the first legislation of its kind in the nation, if not the world. Its original intent was to “inform government decisionmakers and the public about the potential environmental effects of proposed activities and to prevent significant, avoidable environmental damage.”...
By Edward Ring