California officials are taking aim at eliminating junk fees—or hidden costs—on goods and services following a national push by the Biden administration. State Attorney General Rob Bonta joined with Democratic state Sens. Bill Dodd (D-Napa) and Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) by sponsoring SB 478. “Prices advertised should be the price you pay. Plain and simple,” Bonta…
California Bill Would Ban ‘Junk’ Fees for Hotels, Flights, Concert Tickets
February 21, 2023
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In California, ‘Tax the Rich’ No Longer Just a Slogan
February 21, 2023
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Commentary At New York’s Met Gala last year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez infamously wore a white gown with “Tax the Rich” emblazoned in red across it. The irony that she wore it at an event not open to the common people she purports to represent, and that she started selling “tax the rich” sweatshirts on her website…
‘Parents, Not Partisans’: California Policy Center Hosts Parent Summit
February 20, 2023
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Parent rights and school board accountability were the highlights of a two-day conference in Sacramento earlier this month focused on California schools. The issues were discussed as part of the California Policy Center’s “Parents, Not Partisans,” summit Feb. 8–9, where more than 100 parents, grassroot organizers, education reformers, and school board members attended. It is…
California to Consider Not Working With Banks That Do Business With Gun Makers
February 20, 2023
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A California state senator introduced a bill last week that would prohibit the state from working with banks that also do business with gun manufacturers. State Sen. Dave Min (D-Irvine) introduced SB 637 to force banks to make a choice between what he called “blood money offered by the gun industry” and doing business with the…
California AG’s Lawmaker Wife Recuses Herself from Overseeing Husband’s Budget
February 20, 2023
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Assemblywoman Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) recused herself Feb. 19 from overseeing discussions on her husband Attorney General Rob Bonta’s Department of Justice budget after a media and public firestorm erupted over her refusal to do so last week. Bonta issued a statement Sunday removing herself as chair of a budget subcommittee from all matters directly pertaining…
San Francisco Mulls End to Red-State Boycott That Hurt Its Finances
February 20, 2023
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors may soon pull its boycott on conservative red states after the move backfired and hurt the city’s finances as it begins to deal with budget shortfalls. The 2016 ban on municipally funded travel and contracting failed to have any impact on those states’ policies and has caused the city’s…
California State University Criticized for Telling Students to Report Professors for ‘Race-Related Stress’
February 20, 2023
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A California university is advising its students of color to report on their professors who cause “race-related stress,” such as not being consistently called on in class. That advice, however, has drawn criticism from three Campus Reform correspondents, who are currently college students in Florida. California State University Monterey Bay’s Personal Growth and Counseling Center…
Tesla Driver Killed After Plowing Into Firetruck on Freeway
WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—A Tesla driver was killed and a passenger was critically injured Saturday when the car plowed into a fire truck that was parked on a Northern California freeway to shield a crew clearing another accident, fire officials said. Four firefighters who were in the truck when it was struck on Interstate 680 were…
Prostitution, Exploitation Worsening on Los Angeles’s Notorious ‘Blade’ After New California Law
February 19, 2023
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LOS ANGELES—At Figueroa and 69th Streets girls appearing as young as 15 stood in G-Strings and unbuttoned blouses, one Wednesday evening earlier this month, as cars idled in a small traffic jam under the weak glow of faded street lights. Even on a weeknight, Los Angeles’s busiest area for sex work—known colloquially as “The Blade”—has…
California Exodus Continues: 700,000 More Left Than Moved in Over 2 Years, US Census Shows
February 17, 2023
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California continues to grapple with the harsh reality of an ongoing migration crisis with its net migration—the difference between people moving in and those moving out—down by nearly 700,000, the most in the country, according to recently released U.S. Census data from April 2020 to July 2022. According to Chapman Economics Professor Dr. James Doti, who…
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