Sacramento If you want to mull the fate of the California Republican Party, you need look no further than Orange County, which had long been the heart and soul of Ronald Reagan–era California conservatism. During my years covering the county…
There’s nothing like changing diapers to bring even the most high-powered executives down to Earth. Sure, they might spend their days negotiating multi-million-dollar deals, but when they’re wiping baby’s stinking bottom, they’re on the same level as the rest of…
If we’re looking for an example of heartlessness from the political class, there are few better examples than California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez’s Twitter response to moderate-income freelance workers who lost their jobs because of her law restricting companies from using…
Sacramento The beauty of federalism is it allows individual states to try various public-policy experiments and then allows people in other states to sit back, observe the results, and decide whether or not they want to embrace similar policies. Based…
The food delivery company Uber Eats announced June 4 they would no longer require customers to pay delivery fees to receive food from black-owned businesses through the end of 2020. But that policy is illegal under the Civil Rights Act…
Sacramento With coronavirus turning our lives into a zombie apocalypse, most Americans have been fairly nonchalant as government officials grab the most expansive power that they can get their hands on. For instance, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has claimed the…
Sacramento The worst part about living in a one-party state is the foreboding sense that there’s nothing the ruling party couldn’t do unless the courts or the federal government step in to stop it. California voters haven’t shown any willingness to…
A gushing article in the liberal publication Vox declared in September that a new California law that outlaws the use of contractors in many industries, is “a victory for workers everywhere.” Assembly Bill 5 was not “just another progressive victory…
Last Wednesday, California passed a new bill that will force “gig workers” for companies like Uber and Lyft to be reclassified as permanent employees rather than independent contractors. Proponents of the bill see the gig economy through a moralistic lens in which…
