California Voices

Greg Lucas and Erin Berman, California State Library: A policy being adopted by LinkedIn Learning, forces patrons to share their personal information to access a library resource. Doing so violates every possible definition of privacy and makes it antithetical to the values at the core of what libraries and librarians stand for. No wonder the American Library Association has expressed concern over LinkedIn Learning’s terms of service.

California's Unemployment Insurance Fund is the nation's least solvent. Even a tiny economic downturn would drive it into the red.

The University of California implicitly denies jobs or promotions to those who don't enthusiastically endorse "diversity," however that's defined.

Having declared that he'll fix California's Department of Motor Vehicles, Gov. Gavin Newsom now owns it and will pay the penalty for failure.

Mark Herbert, Small Business Majority: As beneficial as the Affordable Care Act has been to California’s small firms and solo entrepreneurs, we cannot ignore the millions of Californians still do not have insurance. To ensure small business owners, their employees and the self-employed have affordable coverage, California must help make quality healthcare available to everyone.

State and local tax revenue is up sharply—at odds with the propaganda from those who want to tax more.

Jim Wunderman, Bay Area Council: Legislators must consider the serious implications of Dynamex—an overly restrictive ruling that threatens our innovation economy. California should lead to make independent work a viable and beneficial option for those who choose it.

A bill requiring presidential candidates to reveal their tax returns is the latest conflict between Donald Trump and California Democrats.

William L. Rukeyser, former reporter and communications specialist: College football and basketball players are hard workers and deserve to the paid that way. Unfortunately for the vast majority of them, the teams they currently work for are as close to the majors as they'll ever get and the system is intent on denying them the pay day they deserve. Many will leave the halls of academe without a degree and without a future. They deserve better.