2022 State Per Capita UNP Rankings
2022 State Per Capita UNP Rankings
The Bureaucratic Erasure of Culture, Identity, and Freedom
The Bureaucratic Erasure of Culture, Identity, and Freedom
Exploring the roadways of California yields scenery evoking two distinct worlds. On the big freeways, surrounding every major interchange, the 21st century asserts itself in an agglomeration of concrete and glass boxes surrounded by lakes of asphalt, each festooned with a recognizable corporate logo. Food. Fuel. Lodging. The corporate power they represent is reflected in...
Forgotten Local Elections, Unforgettable Consequences
Forgotten Local Elections, Unforgettable Consequences
Thanks to California’s ridiculous policy of mailing ballots to voters a full month prior to election day, and allowing “early voting,” I had already completed and submitted my ballot when I realized that was a mistake. After voting for a local school board candidate who I had some familiarity with and thought might be a safe choice,...
U.S. Schools Get Bad Marx
U.S. Schools Get Bad Marx
This article previously appeared on frontpagemag.com. My father was a liberal Democrat. He worshipped FDR and didn’t care much for the GOP. His parents were staunch Republicans, and the political discussions I remember from the 1950s were always entertaining – if not a bit confusing – to this eight-year-old. Importantly, while my dad was a liberal,...
Will California Voters Approve More Taxes and Borrowing?
Will California Voters Approve More Taxes and Borrowing?
If your city council puts a tax increase on the ballot, or your local school district puts a construction bond on the ballot, chances are very good it will get approved. Data from the past four November general elections is unambiguous. In November of 2020, for example, 80 percent of school bonds were approved by...
The Unraveling of Education in America
The Unraveling of Education in America
It’s no secret that education in America has been in bad shape for some time, and now, low student proficiency has been exacerbated by the hysterical response to the Covid outbreak. Most recently, the results of a Harvard University study, which investigated the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by...
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...
2021 State Per Capita UNP Rankings
2021 State Per Capita UNP Rankings
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...