Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite
2 years, 9 months ago

Conservatives say California is a disaster -- but facts show the opposite

Raw Story  

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for decades, you’ve probably noticed that conservatives hate California. The facts show that California attracts more capital, creates more wealth, generates jobs with better pay, suffers lower rates of work-related fatalities and has safer streets and longer lives. Never one to resist attacking California, The Wall Street Journal editorial board ran an editorial titled “California’s Covid Woes.” It obsessed over overcrowded hospitals and long wait times, which it blamed on MediCal, the state’s medical care program for the poor. Far from a state in economic decline, California attracted more capital last year than at any point in the NVCA’s data set going back to 2005. California’s successes defy conservative cosmology, which holds that taxes, unions, workplace safety rules, environmental protections and immigrants repel capital, kill economies, hurt families and denigrate life itself.

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How California voters challenged the state’s deep-blue reputation this election
1 month, 1 week ago

How California voters challenged the state’s deep-blue reputation this election

LA Times  

An election worker watches a voter place his ballot in the drop box at the Orange County Registrar of Voters in Santa Ana on Nov. 5, 2024. “Some progressive voters in the state, where Democrats control the governor’s office and Legislature, were dumbfounded by the early results,” my colleague Mackenzie Mays reported recently, “while Republicans seized on the moment as …

Letters to the Editor: California’s in trouble. Why don’t its voters elect Republicans?
3 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: California’s in trouble. Why don’t its voters elect Republicans?

LA Times  

To the editor: Steve Lopez, in reference to California Republicans, writes: “None of them has offered winning solutions to deep-seated problems. To the editor: Lopez’s column mentioning angry letter writers who blame Democrats for all the problems facing this state was insightful. Both parties in this state share responsibility for misguided legislation and executive action — but only one, the …

Opinion: Southern Californians shaped the nation’s biggest political problems. We can solve them too
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: Southern Californians shaped the nation’s biggest political problems. We can solve them too

LA Times  

Voters rank the economy and inflation as the most important issues facing the country, and in spite of good news on both fronts, discontent over pocketbook issues remains steady. There’s one stretch of Southern California where, one could say, that all began: Los Angeles’ harbor and coast. Land speculators — in most places pushing out Indigenous people and Mexicans — …

What to read about the history of California
7 months, 4 weeks ago

What to read about the history of California

The Economist  

I T IS DIFFICULT to wrap your mind around California. No American state has had a greater impact on modern culture and technology—thanks to Hollywood and Silicon Valley. And, like America, California is not just a place but an idea: a golden land of opportunity at the edge of the continent where generations of miners, migrants, farmers, actors and computer …

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians
8 months, 3 weeks ago

How bashing California became a requirement for conservative politicians

LA Times  

For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, residents of the rest of the country often saw California as the place their wacky or adventurous or beautiful cousin went to seek gold, celebrity, sunny beaches, sexual freedom, and maybe a new identity, away from the family and the baggage in St. Paul, Philadelphia or Levittown. “Some of it, from a …

Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts
9 months ago

Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins a second term. Fasten your seatbelts

LA Times  

“The place is failing,” former President Trump said of California at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland last month. We’ll give you a mansion.” Under its current policies, Trump charged, the state can “take children away from their parents and sterilize them.” “He’s destroyed California,” Trump said of the governor, whom he recently gave a new and strikingly unattractive …

Opinion: Republicans don’t like California. Readers’ response: Whatever
10 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Republicans don’t like California. Readers’ response: Whatever

LA Times  

A poll recently found what I learned after writing a short opinion piece last month asking for some goodwill from people leaving California: Much of America has soured on our state, and many Republicans really don’t like us. According to the poll, almost half of Republicans believe California is “not really American,” which is a much nicer way of expressing …

Half of Republicans say California isn’t really American
10 months, 1 week ago

Half of Republicans say California isn’t really American

LA Times  

California’s national reputation as a place of dreams and prosperity is in jeopardy, battered by Republicans who dislike almost all aspects of the state and many Democrats who see it as too costly and a poor place to raise a family. Nearly 40% of Republicans don’t even think California is a good place to visit, though a majority in both …

Climate deniers are costing California too much time, money
2 years, 2 months ago

Climate deniers are costing California too much time, money

LA Times  

Looking back, Bradley Bentz doesn’t know what took him so long to move out of Los Angeles County. “I kind of just.,” Bentz said, searching for the right words to sum up his life, “fell in love.” Lumber trucks display the Stars and Stripes in Greenville’s Gold Diggers Day parade. “I really think it would take a disaster to scare …

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes
2 years, 8 months ago

California Republicans are convening. What to know as the state GOP tries to flip its fortunes

LA Times  

President Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan ride horses at their Santa Barbara ranch, Rancho del Cielo, in 1982. The launching pad for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, the state remains home to many of the party’s wealthiest donors as well as nearly 5.3 million registered GOP voters. Politics House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy backs away from blaming Trump …

How Trump-hating California got a slate of recall candidates who supported Trump
3 years, 4 months ago

How Trump-hating California got a slate of recall candidates who supported Trump

LA Times  

Candidates running to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election include, clockwise from top left: Larry Elder, businessman John Cox, former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Assemblyman Kevin Kiley and Caitlyn Jenner. California Republican recall hopefuls seek to differentiate themselves in San Francisco debate Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Rancho Santa Fe businessman John Cox and Assemblyman Kevin …

A new newsletter chronicling California politics
3 years, 4 months ago

A new newsletter chronicling California politics

LA Times  

A historic gubernatorial recall election. Once-a-decade redrawing of the Golden State’s political maps, and major changes for candidates and voters in the 2022 election cycle. Beginning Aug. 13, our new Friday dispatch will offer a detailed look at each week’s developments as well as broader themes from the state Capitol, the campaign trail and beyond. After wrapping California’s political news …

As fires burns, California moves faster on climate — maybe
3 years, 5 months ago

As fires burns, California moves faster on climate — maybe

LA Times  

This is the July 22, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. For the Air Resources Board, that will mean using next year’s edition of its twice-a-decade climate “scoping plan” to work through the feasibility of carbon neutrality by 2035. Meanwhile, KPCC’s Sharon McNary explains how Acton, …

Column: The California exodus is a myth. But that doesn’t stop the haters
3 years, 8 months ago

Column: The California exodus is a myth. But that doesn’t stop the haters

LA Times  

Early in the 1990s, Time magazine published a lurid cover — the sun setting into a blood-red sea — fronting a special edition devoted to the decline and fall of the great Golden State. Half of registered voters surveyed in a 2019 Berkeley IGS poll described the state as “one of the best places to live,” and 25% said California …

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