San Francisco’s $1.7 Million Public Toilet
San Francisco’s $1.7 Million Public Toilet
If you want to know where California’s headed, dragging the rest of America in its wake, consider the $1.7 million single public toilet San Francisco is going to install in the city’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Don’t hold your breath, by the way, because if we’re lucky, the toilet will be available to the public sometime in 2025....
By Edward Ring
L.A. teachers in open rebellion – this time against their own union leaders
L.A. teachers in open rebellion – this time against their own union leaders
Union chief Caputo-Pearl: “This agreement is horrible,” a teacher wrote on UTL:A’s Facebook page. “It was not worth striking 7 minutes let alone 7 days!!! Our union has let us down once again.” (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) LOS ANGELES — L.A. teachers on Tuesday voted on a deal their union calls “historic.” But by then, the...
By Mark Bucher
Disunion: Union membership in key school district fell dramatically after Janus
Disunion: Union membership in key school district fell dramatically after Janus
CLASS WAR: Teachers union activists and supporters surround Santa Ana school district candidate Angie Cano, April 2018. Cano, a school choice activist, was attempting to speak at a district board meeting. Police escorted her into the building. Union membership in California’s sixth-largest school district fell rapidly in 2018, perhaps signaling a broader statewide decline following...
By Editorial Staff
Public Servant Who Made $327,491 in 2017 Asks Us to Support Higher Taxes
Public Servant Who Made $327,491 in 2017 Asks Us to Support Higher Taxes
Every two years, around this time, political mailers inundate the mailboxes of California’s registered voters. This week, many Sacramento residents received “Vote No on Prop 6″ mailer. Prop 6 is that pesky, subversive citizens ballot initiative that, if approved by voters, will roll back the gas tax. But Prop. 6 isn’t the topic here. Rather,...
By Edward Ring
Brown’s union ploy shows unions still fear end to mandatory dues
Brown’s union ploy shows unions still fear end to mandatory dues
Sacramento On first blush, the latest effort by Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislators to give public-employee unions access to public agencies to hold “orientation” seminars with new hires is an unfair special privilege not normally provided to private groups. It’s even more disturbing that the legislation authorizing such access is being rammed through the...
By Steven Greenhut
Teachers’ unions losing the long battle over parental choice
Teachers’ unions losing the long battle over parental choice
Sacramento — Supporters of charter schools, homeschooling and other forms of school “choice” are so used to fighting in the trenches against the state’s muscular teachers’ unions that they often forget how much progress they’ve made in the last decade or so. Recent events have shown the degree of progress, even if they still face...
By Steven Greenhut
What if California’s Government Never Unionized?
What if California’s Government Never Unionized?
A story that still makes the rounds in Sacramento is that Governor Jerry Brown, speaking off-the-record to a group of business leaders back around 2009, admitted that the worst political decision of his life was signing legislation to permit public employees to form unions and engage in collective bargaining. Whether or not Governor Brown actually...
By Edward Ring
State Budget Could Be Capped by “Gann Limit,” Preventing New Taxes
State Budget Could Be Capped by “Gann Limit,” Preventing New Taxes
Editor’s Note: For a summary of how state legislators may be prevented by law from increasing taxes any further, this article by Jon Coupal is as good as any. In a nutshell, Prop. 4 (the “Gann Limit”), passed in 1979, then modified by Prop. 111, passed in 1990, limits increases in state and local spending...
By Jon Coupal