California has just 72 percent of the assets needed to make payments to retired public workers, many of whom get to collect six-figure annual payments.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
Instead of trusting parents to manage their families, lawmakers from both parties prefer to empower the Nanny State.
Which is bad news for anyone hoping to rent a place to live.
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
Instead, the White House is pushing for similar job-killing regulations on the national level.
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
The pandemic showed that America's founders were right to create a system of checks and balances that made it hard for leaders to easily have their way.
A change that promised to be a moderating influence on politics has instead made campaigns more vicious than ever.
The project might determine whether new generations will be able to take part in the American Dream.
California's poorly served public school students need more than a few more dollars diverted to tutoring programs. They need an escape hatch.
Amid fear of rising crime, let's take a careful and deliberate approach—lest innocent people lose their rights and property.
From limits on liability protections for websites to attempts to regulate the internet like a public utility, these proposals will erode Americans' right to express themselves.
Throughout Republican-run Western states, lawmakers are passing legislation that treats adults as if they are children.
Regulations, tariffs, and other government-imposed hurdles reward American car companies for building bigger, more expensive trucks and keep out any potential competitors.
Free societies generally leave these matters to individuals and families.
Like many horrors throughout history, they were rooted in radical ideas aimed at implementing some utopian vision.
These are the best of times, so let's all stop complaining.
The long-planned tunnel will bring water from the Sacramento River to the state's dry southern regions.
California is facing a projected deficit of $68 billion, a larger amount than the entire annual budget of the state of Florida.
Blame lingering pandemic-era restrictions that make it harder for people to find a dog or cat they'd like to adopt.
Should a federal government that is nearly $34 trillion in debt and can't manage basic operations be micromanaging fast-food business purchases?
When everyone owns something, no one does.
Higher prices created by a $20 minimum wage for burger joints will lead to fewer customers, reduced profits, fewer restaurants, and a loss of jobs.
Instead of looking like a future president, Newsom comes off as just another small man in a big office.
State officials seem to delight in how much money they "invest" in different priorities, without worrying too much about outcomes.
He insists that he's not running for president, but his vetoes of the fringiest measures suggest otherwise.
We should all be skeptical that the same government that can't balance a budget can revamp the dominant form of modern communications and boost young people's self-esteem.
We already have a party that's committed to progressive ideals, do we really need another?
The state's population stagnation is likely to continue for decades as younger people flee for opportunities elsewhere.
It's vital to recognize the many unforeseen consequences of school closures, business lockdowns, and mask mandates.
Republican-controlled Huntington Beach has sued the state government to stop enforcement of state housing mandates.
Instead, Donald Trump is proposing a 10-percent automatic tariff on all imports, a trade policy even worse than Biden's.
Expect more strikes, fewer government services, and more tax increases to pay for pension obligations.
Better policing could solve the police-recruiting crisis.
Another exercise in nonsense by state lawmakers in California.
Ethics allegations have been raised against Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor. Both sides have retreated into whataboutism.
Instead, try making it easier to build more housing!
The median resident of Southern California takes zero transit trips annually, and only 2 percent of the region's population frequently uses mass transit.
It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt.
In California, officials are pushing pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, firearms manufacturers, and tobacco companies. Red states are retaliating. This is madness.
California lawmakers and President Joe Biden seem determined to help fast-food workers by eliminating their jobs.
Often, it can be exactly the opposite.
Start by looking at the government policies that have made it worse.
After getting lucky for his first few years in office, Newsom now faces his first major budgetary crisis. How he responds will show a lot about his leadership skills.
If you don't like San Francisco, that's fine, but don't tell tall tales about it.
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