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Interest rate limit doesn’t fix poverty

Limiting interest rates on loans to the poor is a sincere effort, but it does nothing about the state's high poverty level.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 6 月 2, 2019

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Weekly Walters 05/31/2019

A collection of commentaries by Dan Walters over the past week.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 5 月 31, 2019

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Women are about to achieve a milestone in the state Senate

With an expected Senate special election victory in June, the ranks of female political role models will inch higher at the Capitol and an even broader array of issues may gain attention. Still, when combined with the 2018 electoral successes, women will comprise fewer than one-third of the 120-member Legislature.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 31, 2019

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Many reasons why Sanders is wrong choice for California Democrats

Democrats should cast a particularly critical eye on Sen. Bernie Sanders. Support for Sanders’ policies will decline under more intense scrutiny, especially his signature Medicare for All plan.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 30, 2019

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A new front in battle over gig workers

The battle over California's "gig economy" is underway in the Legislature and a new front has been opened in the California Public Employees Retirement System.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 5 月 30, 2019

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California Assembly’s new rules have led to legislative censorship

New Assembly rules provide the chairs of committees with the discretion to arbitrarily decide whether to set a bill for hearing or not, without any justification. While most committee chairs are even-handed and set all the bills that have been referred to them, this is not always the case. The saying, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," applies.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 29, 2019

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Secrecy abounds on state budget, major bills

Welcome to Sacramento, where the state budget is written in secret and decisions on important bills are made behind closed doors.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 5 月 29, 2019

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Don’t dumb-down smart speakers

Voice recognition systems have streamlined our daily activities, from turning on the lights to important reminders about taking medications. Assembly Bill 1395 by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham, a Republican from San Luis Obispo, could halt this technology’s advancement.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 28, 2019

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California has a huge surplus. So why are legislators still trying to raise taxes?

Two tax increase measures have reached the floors of the Senate and Assembly. Both threaten to delete Proposition 13’s important taxpayer protections from the California Constitution. Put simply, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 and Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 would be taxes on California affordability.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 28, 2019

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We should not be forced to pay for costly electricity we don’t need

Senate Bill 772 by Sen. Steven Bradford, a Gardena Democrat, would force publicly-owned utilities and their ratepayers to pay for pumped hydropower storage, even if the utilities and their ratepayers don’t need it and would receive no benefit from it.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 27, 2019