Sacramento The rule of thumb with progressives and California’s robust initiative, referendum, and recall process is that they’re in favor of giving the people the power to control their government — provided they vote the way progressives would like. When…

Sacramento California may be the “edge of the world and all of Western civilization,” as the Los Angeles-based rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang in their 22-year-old hit, “Californication,” but their most provocative lyrics come later in the…

Sacramento The whole point of the Biden administration’s budget-busting $1.9 trillion stimulus bill is to aid struggling workers after the COVID-19 shutdowns obliterated their earnings. The legislation is also, as CNN described it, “a platform for a generational transformation of…

There is so much information in our world today, it’s hard to know what is real information, what is misinformation, and what is disinformation. To deal with the ever-increasing volume of data, we often look to other people or institutions…

If it walks and talks like a duck, as the saying goes, you can be reasonably sure it’s a duck. The same could be said of “worker centers,” which talk like unions, try to organize workers like unions, and engage…