Why would anyone want to be a small landlord in a city with rules like this?: Oakland is one of the last cities in the Bay Area hanging on to its eviction moratorium, which was introduced during the pandemic to … Continue reading →
One would think that the most basic task of those running a large city would be to preserve civic order. Not a perfect order, of course; that would require a level of control and a restriction of freedom that would … Continue reading →
First we were told it was probably a bona fide accident. Then we were told it was likely to have been a purposeful crime. Now we hear this: Twenty-five recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department got mowed down … Continue reading →
Very Soviet of Newsom, and of the California legislature that passed this bill: Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed California Assembly Bill 2098, making it the first state to attempt to censor what physicians can say about COVID-19 to their patients. … Continue reading →
One can hope: A preliminary count of signatures submitted in a petition to recall Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón totals 715,833, L.A. County elections officials reported Saturday. L.A. County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said his office has completed … Continue reading →
Though California does have sections that are politically conservative, the left has an iron grip on the state’s politics because of its large coastal urban areas. The state has also instituted something called the jungle primary, which means that the … Continue reading →
That’s the title of this piece at BattleSwarm Blog about the possible recall of George Gascon. I submit, however, that it actually should read “especially his own prosecutors.” Lawyers don’t – or at least, until the last few years, didn’t … Continue reading →
Looking at some of the other results in Tuesday’s California primaries, there appears to be a law-and-order trend – at least, as California would define law and order these days. Read this on Orange County DA Todd Spitzer. Also this … Continue reading →
Buh-bye Chesa, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. George Soros could buy your way in, but he couldn’t keep you there – not even in bluer-than-blue San Francisco. It’ll be Dahle against Newsom for the … Continue reading →
Although it may end up with the same-old same-old. First we have the governorship. The loathsome Newsom is the current officeholder, and he survived a recall election recently quite handily. Newsom would dearly love Republican Brian Dahle to win the … Continue reading →
…the electric power will come from (or other technology, such as pressurized hydrogen) to run all these non-gas cars? How will it be generated, and at what financial and environmental cost? Or is this just virtue-signaling by the governor, since … Continue reading →
…according to Victor Davis Hanson: By many criteria, 21st-century California is both the poorest and the richest state in the union… …[B]y some indicators, the California middle class is shrinking — because of massive regulation, high taxation, green zoning, and … Continue reading →