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  • California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?

    California Ranks Dead Last Among US States in Tipping. Why?7

    “I’m going to have to ask you to put your cigarette out.” I was a college student working as a waiter at a Wisconsin restaurant more than twenty years ago when I sheepishly said these words. I didn’t like saying them, and was frustrated I had to. The guest, who was sitting with his date

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  • California Parents Pull Their Children, Stage Rally Over Controversial Sex-Ed Curriculum

    California Parents Pull Their Children, Stage Rally Over Controversial Sex-Ed Curriculum0

    San Diego parents pulled their kids from school and rallied outside the district’s headquarters Tuesday, expressing anger and frustration over a sex-ed curriculum they allege is completely inappropriate for their young children. The sixth grade curriculum includes lessons on gender identity, birth control, the stages of sex, STDs, HIV, and pregnancy. Parents are calling the material “too much,

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  • California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula

    California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula0

    When it comes to education, summer is normally a downtime of rest and relaxation. That’s not the case, however, for California’s Department of Education. According to The Sacramento Bee, the state just released their newly rewritten history standards – standards which will likely be adopted by many of the other 49 states. So what exactly

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  • California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water

    California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water0

    California’s new governor has wasted little time continuing the state’s seemingly limitless expansion of government. Governor Gavin Newsom’s first budget proposal, published last week, suggests instituting a tax on drinking water in the name of cleaning up California’s water systems. The “Environmental Protection” section of the 2019-2020 budget seeks to establish a new special fund,

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  • California Mandates ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Sections in Department Stores

    California Mandates ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Sections in Department Stores3

    California continues to face a scourge of shoplifting, with rates of the crime rising almost 29 percent in 2022, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. This trend shows no sign of abating, as the 2023 rates in Los Angeles indicate. Instead of addressing this pressing issue, however, California legislators have overseen the passage

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  • California Makes Housing Scarcer

    California Makes Housing Scarcer0

    Housing in California will become even more scarce. California’s legislature has shelved a bill that would result in more housing construction, while moving forward on other legislation that would reduce the supply of housing. The State Senate just blocked a bill that would have allowed denser development near transit stops, increasing the number of housing

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