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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

国会大厦

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

加州野火

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

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Trump pardon closes book on ‘Shrimpgate’ scandal

Donald Trump closes the book by California's "Shrimpgate" scandal by pardoning former Assemblyman Pat Nolan.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 5 月 27, 2019

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We now have results for key laws advocates promised would ‘protect’ teenagers. They don’t.

In 2016, fewer than 6% of California adolescents reported trying cigarettes, down from 19% in 2003. Why on earth did legislators feel the need to intervene in such a hugely positive youth trend? For no apparent reason, they did. The results aren't pretty.

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 26, 2019

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‘Fungibility’ means there’s no free lunch

"Fungibility," as applied to politics, means there's no free lunch despite politicians' efforts to persuade us otherwise.

经过 丹·沃尔特斯 • 5 月 26, 2019

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Bar closing time

Michael J. Scippa, Alcohol Justice, Tiburon It would be more objective if all publications would include the public health perspective when covering the issue of extending last call at bars. Senate Bill 58 is Sen. Scott Wiener’s relentlessly dangerous 4 a.m. bar bill. It marks the third consecutive year in which he has attempted to […]

经过 嘉宾评论 • 5 月 24, 2019