Rewarding Voters An Old American Tradition
The proposal from the Los Angeles Ethics Commission last month that voters in the city’s municipal elections be entered into a lottery for a cash prize has been heaped with criticism. Washington Post columnist George Will, for one, called the proposal “a perfectly awful idea…so loopy it could only be conceived by governments.” His reasoning […]
California’s Prop 47 Prison Experiment: Roll Of The Dice Meets Ticking Time Bomb
Time was when anything but the toughest stance against crime was a ticket to political trouble in California. That included the death penalty, which was Dianne Feinstein’s ticket to stardom back in 1990 when her defense of the practice before a convention hall of angry liberal Democrats – a calculated move, some would say – […]
Records Show Unions Massively Fund CA Dem Party
At a time when two Democratic lawmakers stand accused of bribery and public corruption, California’s most powerful labor unions have kicked back more than a million dollars to the California Democratic Party. According to state campaign finance records posted Monday evening, the Democratic State Central Committee of CA accepted a total of $1.59 million in campaign contributions […]
California Pre-K Is Doomed: The State’s Lack of Ambition Will Kill Universal Preschool Before It Starts
Hard to believe that only a decade ago—back in the fall of 2014—the future of pre-kindergarten looked so promising in California. State leaders were congratulating themselves on passing a budget and new legislation that promised more than 40,000 new full-day pre-K spots for low-income 4-year-olds. California was celebrated as a leader of a nationwide movement […]