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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

California keeps expanding school curricula. What about improving key subjects?

California’s high school students are already required to pass the equivalent of 13 year-long classes in specific subjects for graduation, and a number of additional courses if they want to attend four-year colleges.

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Great news: the CTA is losing members

In 2018, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) that public employee unions could not collect fees from people who chose not to be union members, union leaders insisted that membership levels would barely be affected.

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Happy Veterans Day: Political Cartoons

Check out our regular cartoon gallery featuring some of the best cartoonists from around the world, and across the political spectrum.

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AG Bonta’s climate litigation strategy was already rejected by the courts in 2007

Climate change policy should be set outside the courts, not through novel litigation.

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Can peace prevail in Gaza, or just a war?: Letters

Any peace agreement with Hamas would be worthless Even if Israel is successful and Hamas is defeated, you would still need to deal with the Palestinians who, living under the cruel Hamas dictatorship, have been indoctrinated for many years with hatred for the Jews. The war will wind up continuing by the new Palestinian legislature and will need to overcome years of built-in hatred proffered by Hamas. This is the same way our colleges have been stealthily indoctrinating antisemitism into their students for years, right under their and our noses. In Russia, even knowing the press is controlled […]

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Streamlining affordable housing is a good idea, even in the coastal zone

The affordable housing crisis has been a topic of longstanding debate in California, and for good reason.

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Judge Abby Abinanti: Culture is how we heal from generations of violence

California is beginning to move in the right direction by improving systems meant to support communities experiencing violence, but more work needs to be done.

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Pro-Hamas protesters: Letters

Seeing the support for the “Palestinians” is a mystery to me. Don’t they realize, they are not supporting Palestinians, but are supporting Hamas who are getting Palestinians killed? It is the Israelis who gave Palestinians time to exit Gaza before their counter-attack. It is the Hamas, who are preventing them from leaving, taking car keys away, and blocking exit roads, to keep them as human shields. It is Israelis, giving safe passage to Palestinians carrying white flags. It was Hamas, who took aid money and supplies for Gaza’s infrastructure and spent it on ammunition to wage war. All of […]

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California needs a smarter approach to fight crime, based on evidence not ideology

A fundamental role of government is protecting public safety, so recent spikes in crime have understandably sparked a debate about police funding and prosecutorial strategies. Surveys show that Californians are understandably concerned about street crime.

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EDD crisis could have been avoided

The action most emblematic of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s nearly five years in office is the collapse into chaos of the California Employment Development Department as COVID-19 struck in the spring of 2020.

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