I left San Francisco just in time — at the end of 2016. Sure, I saw the occasional junkie shooting up in public when I still worked in the city. And yes, I saw men use the sidewalk at the…
SACRAMENTO — This week, California state officials and labor unions lost the latest battle in their five-year quest to destroy an emerging industry, obliterate tens of thousands of jobs, drive up prices, and eliminate safe transportation alternatives for consumers. We can…
SACRAMENTO — Conservatives often suggest that the mainstream media is filled with left-wing activists who do the Democrats’ bidding, but that’s rarely the case outside a few elite publications — and it is easily identifiable when it is. The most…
For a clear glimpse into the modern Democrat Party’s fiscal extravagance and twisted obsession with gender fluidity, consider Bernardo Heights Middle School. That San Diego campus captures so much of the sheer insanity that is a feature, not a bug,…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had a chance this year to fight California’s rampant crime problem. He didn’t take it. Both Democratic and Republican state Assembly members proposed in January that California drop or severely limit Proposition 47. Proposition 47, which…
SACRAMENTO — California’s state budget has been awash in cash, as lawmakers this year enjoyed a $97.5 billion budget surplus — an excess amount that’s larger than the entire general-fund budgets of all but two states (New York and Texas). As…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In a normal state, policymakers who are facing a crisis (let alone myriad crises) would at least have the wisdom not to purposefully try to make things worse. Here in California, not so much. Gov. Gavin Newsom…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At a property rights conference in San Bernardino County many years ago, former state Sen. Tom McClintock (now a Republican congressman representing the Sacramento area) and I joined a standing ovation for U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, the…
Sacramento The California Legislature obviously has far more important issues to address than the wildfires that are raging across the state and the empty reservoirs that are leading local water agencies to impose draconian rationing rules. Instead of, say, fixing…
