Recall Newsom candidates weigh in on top issues
Recall Newsom candidates weigh in on top issues
Learn where they stand on school openings, government unions, and more
National teachers union now supporting vaccine mandate for educators
National teachers union now supporting vaccine mandate for educators
Top doc adds: If they don’t want to get vaccinated, I would mandate that they get vaccinated
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,...
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...
Fixing California – Part three: Achieving water abundance
Fixing California – Part three: Achieving water abundance
Editor’s note: This is the third article in a nine-part series on how to fix California. Read the first article in the series here, and the second here. As Californians face another drought, the official consensus response is more rationing. Buy washers that don’t work very well. Install more flow restrictors. Move down from a 50 gallon per...
Fixing California – Part One: The Themes That Make Anything Possible
Fixing California – Part One: The Themes That Make Anything Possible
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a nine-part series on how to fix California For conservatives across America, California has become the cautionary tale for the rest of the country. Anyone who actually lives in the Golden State, and enjoys the best weather and the most beautiful, diverse scenery on earth, knows there...
How Many People Have Left California Unions?
How Many People Have Left California Unions?
Some 300,000 Californians have stopped paying membership dues or fees to California’s government unions since 2018, the year the Supreme Court of the United States, in Janus v. AFSCME, ended mandatory union membership requirements for state and local government workers. The 20 percent drop in membership has allowed California workers to keep approximately $240 million...
California Lockdown Exodus Video
California Lockdown Exodus Video
As California finally reopens after a long year of lockdowns, we look back on the people and businesses that have left our state. While the exodus is not a recent phenomenon, this previous year of lockdowns have shown many more Californians the glaring problems this state has. Please read our California Book of Exoduses HERE....
UTLA’s racist, anti-Semitic history
UTLA’s racist, anti-Semitic history
Parent watchdogs share damning evidence: anti-Israel stance is nothing new The United Teachers Los Angeles made international headlines recently for its vote calling on the United States government to immediately cease all aid to Israel, joining the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. While the vote by several chapters (the full union will consider...
Fixing K-12 education in California
Fixing K-12 education in California
Supporters of education reform in California have never had a bigger opportunity than they do right now. In the past year, more parents than ever witnessed the selfish overreach of the teachers’ unions, at the same time millions of them experienced creative educational solutions that bypass the traditional public school system. Meanwhile, an activist army...
The key to affordable housing? More suburbs
The key to affordable housing? More suburbs
An article just published in City Journal, “Is Texas’s Affordable Housing Endangered,” describes how housing prices in Texas are becoming unaffordable. The article notes how the average home price in the Austin metropolitan area has doubled in just 10 years. In the Dallas suburbs a decade ago, more than 50 percent of homes sold for...
Reopening- The Show Must Go On? California’s Contradictory COVID Guidance Continues for the Oscars and for Places of Worship
Reopening- The Show Must Go On? California’s Contradictory COVID Guidance Continues for the Oscars and for Places of Worship
Do you think people in the film industry are considered essential workers? According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, they will be on April 25, when they present the annual Oscars. Variety recently reported that those involved in the production, including the nominees and their guests, will be considered essential workers. This...
The Looming Nightmare
The Looming Nightmare
The ongoing Covid lockdown hysteria is taking a brutal toll on the young. According to the Burbio school tracker, 53 percent of schools nationwide are now fully open for business. With the new CDC guidelines having determined that three feet is a safe distance for students, one would think the other 47 percent would embrace...
Newsletter: Putting the Weird back in Weirdos
Newsletter: Putting the Weird back in Weirdos
Welcome to your weekly roundup of news from the state that put the “weird” back in “weirdos.” If you like this, donate to and thank your friends at California Policy Center. If you hate it, please blame only me (your faithful scribe, Will Swaim) and check back in when our new communications director takes over...