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CPC releases letter in opposition to AB 84 on behalf of statewide coalition

SACRAMENTO – Today, California Policy Center joined a broad coalition of education freedom advocates in submitting a letter of opposition to Assembly Bill AB 84 to the Senate Education Committee. The bill will have a hearing before the committee at 9:00am on July 16th at the Capitol. “California families need more educational choices, not fewer...

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California Might Stop Making Necessary Debt Payments for 2 Years

It’s July. The California State Legislature has successfully met the budget submission deadline of June 15, and it was signed by the governor. There was one small fly in the ointment: how to cut $12 billion in spending? All while trying to provide $750 million in tax credits annually to one specific industry: Hollywood. Go...

By John Moorlach

Is California’s Water Infrastructure Ready for Climate Whiplash?

If there is anything that might constitute an overwhelming institutional consensus in California, it’s that we are experiencing climate change, and that one of the consequences will be more rain, less snow, and more so-called whiplash between very wet years and very dry years. In an average year these days, 30 million acre feet of water...

By Edward Ring

1 in 5 Los Angeles County School Districts Had Major Accounting Moves in 2020

The fiscal year of July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, was one of the more memorable for California’s school districts. The COVID-19 pandemic would dramatically impact students in March of 2020. The Golden State had not seen anything like it since the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918, more than a century prior. This unique...

By John Moorlach

Orange County’s $649 million Trolley to Nowhere

California’s bullet-train may be the state’s most high-profile transportation money-sink, consuming a projected $135 billion with no clear path to the finish line. However, taxpayers shouldn’t overlook the other transit boondoggles torching public funds. Chief among them is Orange County’s 4.15-mile OC Streetcar: proof that you can pour high-speed-rail-style money into a monument to tunnel...

By Athan Joshi

SCOTUS Delivers Big Wins for Freedom

This Independence Day, parents across America are celebrating freedom — thanks to three big wins out of the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, the Court’s ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor was a decisive victory for parental rights. The High Court made it clear: parents cannot be sidelined in their child’s education. In a 6–3 decision, the Court upheld the...

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California’s First Fourth of July

California’s first Fourth of July was celebrated in the rugged hills of present-day San Bernardino, when the region was still under Mexican rule. On that day in 1842, Daniel Sexton, a Louisiana-born carpenter and early American settler, raised an American flag and celebrated Independence Day with an unlikely group: Native Americans of the local Cahuilla...

By Will Swaim

Newsom’s CEQA “Reform” — A Win for Unions, Not a Fix for Housing

On July 1st, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation that he hailed as “the most game-changing housing reforms in recent California history.” The bills, bundled into a budget trailer package, include selective exemptions from California’s destructive environmental law, CEQA — a bureaucratic nightmare widely blamed for strangling housing development and deepening the state’s affordability crisis. But...

By Andrew Davenport

Politics and the Cost for Water Infrastructure

When it comes to building water supply infrastructure, even if regulations are streamlined and litigation is contained, there are massive costs. Quantifying these variables is something we have focused on a great deal, most recently in WC#96, “The Economics of the Delta Tunnel.” In that and other reports we’ve offered a highly simplified cost/benefit equation: divide...

By Edward Ring

Illegal Alien Medi-Cal and the Big Beautiful Bill

Thanks to the Senate Parliamentarian, California will be spared the largest fiscal impact of the Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid reforms, but the state’s ability to shift the cost of undocumented immigrant Medi-Cal coverage onto federal taxpayers will nonetheless face limits. Between 2016 and 2024, the California legislature added groups of illegal aliens to the Medi-Cal...

By Marc Joffe

Another Union Takeover – This Time Buried In Housing Bills

You would have to dig into the fine print of legislation signed yesterday to see how non-union business owners and workers got screwed, again. If A Tree Falls In The Forest And No One Hears It – Did It Make A Noise? What we witnessed yesterday afternoon should alarm every Californian who values free enterprise...

By Jon Fleischman

SCOTUS Delivers Major Wins for Parents and Kids

CPC Calls for Immediate Policy Reforms in California SACRAMENTO — California Policy Center applauds today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v. Taylor as a decisive victory for parental rights. The High Court has made it clear: parents cannot be sidelined in their child’s education. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court upheld the right of...

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