This newly released report examines how the California dream can be restored for California's middle- and working-class families. An excerpt follows: read more »
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Report: Restoring the California Dream
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California's Economy is Weaker Than it Looks
Whisper it, but the $45 billion surplus Gavin Newsom has projected for California next year isn’t quite what it seems. In fact, the bulk of that surplus is largely due to the earnings of a few giants such as Google, Apple and Meta (formerly Facebook), as well as a handful of IPOs. read more »
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Trouble in Paradise: The Crumbling California Model
Some horrified conservatives dismiss California as the progressive dystopia, bound for bankruptcy and, let’s hope, growing irrelevance. read more »
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Here's Why California is Losing Population for the First Time
California is suffering a major demographic reversal, one that threatens both the state’s economic future and the durability of its progressive model. read more »
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California's Keenest Competitors for Tech Jobs are Blue Western States
For a generation, California has seen more of its residents and companies head elsewhere, but has found a way to respond, at least in terms of wealth creation, by constant innovation. But today, the Golden State’s hold on the elite reaches of the economy is slipping in ways that could threaten the state’s long-term prosperity. read more »
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Governor Newsom Supports Increasing Oil Imports from Foreign Countries
To gain more press time, California Governor Newsom just announced California moves to ban oil wells within 3,200 feet of homes and schools. Governor Newsom is proud of continuing the decline of in-state oil production that’s been going on for more than 30 years. read more »
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California Dreamin'
“I just took [my son] to our local Walgreens to buy him a toy. While there, a man shoved past me so firmly that he sent me into the shelving. Then he proceeded to fill a brown paper bag with Halloween candy and waltzed out of the store. This is one of five Walgreens stores in SF that will be closing in the next two months, in part because of rampant theft. And our city leaders all keep insisting crime is down.”
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, by Michael Shellenberger read more »
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Meet me in St. Louis: When One Golden Gate Closes, Another May Open
Sacramento politicians and the urban growth lobby they so diligently serve have created a narrative that there is something very wrong with living in (or wanting to live in) a single-family neighborhood. Single-family neighborhoods are -- so the narrative goes -- “racist,” “immoral,” and “evil.” read more »
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Gavin Newsom Won His Recall. What's Next for California?
What started as a lark, then became an impossible dream—a conservative resurgence, starting in California—ended, like many past efforts, in electoral defeat. read more »
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The One Element Missing from the Discussion of Housing in CA: Tolerance
In California we pride ourselves on being very tolerant of a diverse array of lifestyles and lifestyle choices. Dress how it suits you; love whom you love; define yourself in accordance with your own preferences. Do your own thing. Sing your own song. Dance your own dance. The Californian thing is to live and let live. read more »
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