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2026-09-17 · New York Post

Don’t rely on poison pills to stop the billionaire tax — speak out now

🔮 A poll released this week by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) shows that 52% of likely voters favor Proposition 40, which would take 5% of the wealth of billionaires in the state. assertive

2026-09-17 · New York Post

Gavin Newsom fishes for COVID redemption and comes up empty

🔮 (United Teachers Los Angeles was indeed among the worst, demanding crazy concessions like defunding the police before they’d agree to reopen schools.) The result: Learning gaps that still show up in test scores and could permanently impair those students’ lifetime earnings and achievement. assertive

2026-09-18 · New York Post

Rob Bonta ‘will have to own it’ if Paramount leaves

🔮 “There’s nothing about this case that requires that — or would cause it. assertive

2026-09-18 · New York Post

How LA homeless agency’s retreat is a sign of sanity

🔮 LAHSA is so radioactive that Mayor Karen Bass announced she would step down from its commission on Sept. 8 –– one day after a California Post editorial noted that she’d appointed herself (and others) to the panel and did indeed have oversight responsibility. assertive

2026-09-18 · New York Post

California is missing out on America’s working-class boom

🔮 Say what you will about Trump: He delivered for the ordinary American. assertive

2026-09-18 · New York Post

Gavin Newsom’s AI ‘kill switch’ is good persuasion, ridiculous policy

🔮 The idea took hold in the public imagination; it even featured in an episode of “South Park,” where Kyle “unplugs” the Internet. But the bill never passed, because no one could figure out how it would work, legally or technically — and nothing has changed. Newsom suggests a “third party” will control the “kill switch”: Who would that be? Who would appoint the “third party”? assertive

2026-09-20 · New York Post

How taxpayers were taken for a ride on the train to nowhere

🔮 While the authority has failed to curb consultants gone wild, the project’s budget is untenable: High-speed rail is projected to run dry of cash in 2027, the audit found. assertive

2026-09-20 · New York Post

Fixing Fairfax begins with public safety

🔮 The COVID-19 lockdowns — imposed by Governor Gavin Newsom, and enforced under then-Mayor Eric Garcetti — came at the worst possible time for retail, when consumers were already turning to online shopping and delivery. assertive

2026-09-22 · New York Post

Who is Nithya Raman *really* running to represent?

🔮 Is Nithya Raman plucking daisy petals, or running for mayor? assertive

2026-09-22 · New York Post

To ease California’s housing shortage, try this

🔮 It means building more roads and more public transportation routes — routes people will actually use, not high-speed-rail boondoggles. assertive

2026-09-23 · New York Post

A Hollywood happy ending for unnecessary Paramount drama

🔮 Instead of losing two studios, Hollywood will keep a larger one — with some job cuts at first, but with prospects of future success, as the company retools for the streaming content era. assertive

2026-09-23 · New York Post

California’s legal system, like universities, fails to stand up to hate

🔮 Maybe they should tell the legal system to wake up as well. assertive

2026-09-25 · New York Post

San Diego’s fiscal mess a warning about shifting ‘red’ to ‘blue’

🔮 San Diego mayor Todd Gloria is quickly becoming the poster child of fiscal mismanagement — and a warning about what happens when “red” states and cities go “blue.” assertive

2026-09-25 · New York Post

Nithya Raman’s thousands of missed votes — why they matter

🔮 But when Mayor Karen Bass told Raman in last month’s debate that she had “missed several thousand votes because you don’t show up to work,” Raman had trouble explaining herself. assertive

2026-09-25 · New York Post

Kill this California ‘green’ tax on consumers nationwide

🔮 But the country is struggling with inflation and affordability, and California shouldn’t be able to raise prices at will. assertive

2026-09-26 · New York Post

Wildlife crossing makes us wonder: Can California still build anything?

🔮 With mountain lions being killed on California’s roadways on a regular basis, there is considerable support for a solution. But it’s not clear whether an overpass over the 101 will work — are the lions supposed to follow Waze to find it? — and the work seems largely unfinished, just weeks before the overpass is set to open. Sign up for the California Morning Report newsletter The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. Thanks for signing up! mixed

2026-09-26 · New York Post

Midterm warning for America, from deep-blue California

🔮 Polls suggest that Democrats might return to power in Congress, winning both the House and the Senate. assertive

2026-09-27 · New York Post

How the LAX People Mover exemplifies California’s ‘can’t do’ attitude

🔮 The project’s contractor, LAX Integrated Express Solutions, disclosed this month that the train — intended to whisk people around LA’s famously sprawling airport — will not open in October as most recently planned. assertive

2026-09-28 · New York Post

California’s sanctuary madness meets tony beach town

🔮 It makes one wonder: How long might this sort of thing have been happening? assertive

2026-09-28 · New York Post

LA could be sitting on billions in property — why not use it?

🔮 Certainly, amid all the political rhetoric about “affordability,” and the housing shortage, it would be interesting to ask what can done with these properties. assertive

2026-09-29 · New York Post

What’s striking about LAUSD union boss’s fears caught on tape

🔮 It’s true that Shaw, who’s shown guts standing up for girls and parents as president of the Chino Valley Unified school board, would be a disruptor by her presence alone. assertive

2026-09-30 · New York Post

Xavier Becerra needs to make his case to California in debate

🔮 ” Maybe it’s working. assertive

2026-09-30 · New York Post

Palisades: Government AWOL as residents rebuild — if they can

🔮 Back in April, LA Mayor Karen Bass visited the White House to discuss fire recovery for both the Palisades and the community of Altadena, but little has come of her visit. assertive

2026-10-02 · New York Post

The hardened criminals must go — and latest raid shows why

🔮 Yet they made their way back across the border — and they settled into California, where they presumably knew they would find “sanctuary” from the law, thanks to Democrats’ policy of defying the rest of the country on immigration. assertive

2026-10-02 · New York Post

Life in LA just got more expensive — and the reason will shock you

🔮 And some communities will pay even more, due to local taxes. assertive

2026-10-03 · New York Post

Roads of death should be higher priority than failed high-speed fail

🔮 That boondoggle’s projected price tag has soared from the original $33 billion to somewhere between $60 and $100 billion — without a single foot of track yet laid.” Ten years and two Gavin Newsom terms later, the high-speed rail is expected to cost twice as much. assertive

2026-10-03 · New York Post

Gen Z returns to faith — that can only be a good thing

🔮 That may come as a surprise, given what we are usually told about Gen Z. Today’s youth, we hear, don’t know how to commit to anything. assertive

2026-10-03 · New York Post

The first lady was right about bullying — we have to act

🔮 They will never be able to forget what they saw. assertive

2026-10-03 · New York Post

The most important revelation in the Palisades, Eaton Fire report

🔮 It has been painfully obvious since Jan. 7, 2025, that the state shared in the blame, yet Newsom pushed back on any suggestion that the state bore any responsibility. Maybe that was a legal strategy to avoid liability in the slew of lawsuits that emerged from the fires. assertive

2026-10-04 · New York Post

Why Berkeley’s free-speech double-standard is so chilling

🔮 One might think that American students would relate to the more than 360 young people slaughtered at a music festival in Israel on Oct. 7. assertive

2026-10-06 · New York Post

Nithya Raman was for LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell before she was against him

🔮 The LAPD could not keep ICE out, but was restricted in how it could cooperate with the federal agency. assertive

2026-10-06 · New York Post

Voters: Time to stop getting abused on tax hikes

🔮 Those who might object to tax increases — the general public — are less organized. assertive

2026-10-07 · New York Post

Nithya Raman shows appalling judgment in ‘fascist’ video against LAPD

🔮 Nithya Raman appears to think she is running for mayor of Antifa, not mayor of LA. assertive

2026-10-07 · New York Post

LAUSD financial crisis means new leadership is needed — now

🔮 As the California Post has reported, the LA Unified School District (LAUSD) is almost insolvent, and will have to cut some 6,000 jobs. assertive

2026-10-08 · New York Post

Manson killer Patricia Krenwinkel granted parole again after nearly 6 decades behind bars

🔮 Krenwinkel was most recently granted parole May 30, 2025, but Gov. Gavin Newsom reversed the decision Oct. 13, 2025. mixed

2026-10-08 · New York Post

Xavier Becerra fudged his back story — here’s why it matters

🔮 Why embellish when the truth will do just fine? Why fudge when your story is easily checked? assertive

2026-10-08 · New York Post

If this debate were an SAT, Sonja Shaw just got a perfect score

🔮 She added that she would take steps to protect female athletes from the policy of allowing biological males to compete against them. assertive

2026-10-09 · New York Post

Federal raids affirm it — LA gets an F on homelessness

🔮 For years, elected officials — LA’s mayor and City Council and the county Board of Supervisors — have tugged at public sympathy for the homeless to drive ever-higher taxes to lavish on fighting homelessness. assertive

2026-10-10 · New York Post

Controller Malia Cohen’s office is out of control

🔮 Whether that is true or not will be up to the voters to decide. assertive

2026-10-10 · New York Post

A brutal robbery in West Hollywood demands strong leadership in response

🔮 They seemed completely unafraid of any security cameras — and even though there is surveillance footage of the attack, there is no guarantee that they will be caught. assertive

2026-10-10 · New York Post

Rick Caruso is right: Public-private partnerships are the way

🔮 Nor will it let the city off the hook for its responsibilities. assertive

2026-10-11 · New York Post

With so-called leaders like LA’s Ysabel Jurado, who needs enemies?

🔮 She should be pressing for sane, common-sense policies that would clean up the debacle — and actually move thousands of human beings out of deplorable conditions and into rehab, treatment and productive lives. assertive

2026-10-12 · New York Post

Next governor must stop pension fat cats sucking up state’s cream

🔮 He said: “I still recall — before PEPRA’s passage in 2012 — the alarming forecasts, the fierce criticism of public employees, and the growing pressure to eliminate defined benefit plans altogether. assertive

2026-10-13 · New York Post

An apology is not enough — the LADWP is badly run, lawless and needs serious overhaul

🔮 You’d think a utility facing that kind of scrutiny would clean up its act. assertive

2026-10-14 · New York Post

California’s first steel mill in decades defies staggering obstacles

🔮 As the California Post has reported, the mill, owned by the San Diego-based Pacific Steel Group, will be the first steel production facility in the state in more than half a century when it opens in 2027. assertive

2026-10-15 · New York Post

California school board’s Pride flag ban deserves praise, not outrage

🔮 The students who led a peaceful protest might be commended for their activism — but they are wrong. assertive

2026-10-15 · New York Post

California election officials offer absurd excuses in fight against illegal voting

🔮 Now, the Justice Department has given the state and LA County an ultimatum: Review and quarantine ballots that might have been sent to noncitizen voters, or face emergency litigation. mixed

2026-10-16 · New York Post

Gavin Newsom and Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t have looked happier slapping backs — but it’s Californians who suffer

🔮 But no one will state the obvious, as long as both of them — the Republican who launched it, the Democrat who extended it — agree to keep pretending. assertive

2026-10-16 · New York Post

Deadly Santa Ana winds return to fire-scarred LA — but have officials learned anything?

🔮 In January 2025, LA Mayor Karen Bass infamously left town for Ghana, despite dire fire warnings. assertive

2026-10-17 · New York Post

Nithya Raman must explain why she sent ‘Mansion Tax’ cash to dodgy foundation

🔮 That’s a question voters will be asking after the city attorney’s latest bombshell report. assertive

2026-10-17 · New York Post

California Dems don’t care about your safety — that’s why they’ve opposed the border wall

🔮 Democrats knew that if he built that wall, he would be seen as a successful president — and not just as a fluke. assertive

2026-10-19 · New York Post

California’s schools fail most kids year after year — the real definition of insanity

🔮 California education officials may pat themselves on the back for a 1% increase in math scores and a 0.5% increase in English scores. assertive

2026-10-19 · New York Post

State sends wildfire aid to low-income housing while fire victims fight for their homes

🔮 But the state allocated $368.7 million to developers to build dense, low-income housing projects, without any guarantee fire victims would benefit. assertive

2026-10-20 · New York Post

Inside Democrats’ absurd push to downplay noncitizen voting and block Voter ID

🔮 The feds called “Operation Protect the Vote” the largest voter fraud bust in state history. And it underscores a basic truth in California: Fraud of all kinds has run amok for years; it needs to end; and state voters in November would do well to support Prop. 39, the Voter ID act — to help ensure that at least part of it does. assertive

2026-10-21 · New York Post

LA voters, and Nithya Raman, should listen to top cop’s warning

🔮 So when Bratton says Nithya Raman would be making a terrible mistake if she were to follow through on her campaign pledge to fire current LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, that ought to count. assertive

2026-10-22 · New York Post

California only has itself to blame for Medicaid funding cuts due to fraud

🔮 When will Gavin Newsom and his party learn that fraud doesn’t pay? assertive

2026-10-22 · New York Post

California’s $2 billion medical fraud shame hid in plain sight — all we had to do was look

🔮 They exploited the most vulnerable — so they could live large on taxpayers’ money. assertive

2026-10-23 · New York Post

The real reason ‘Rubber-stamp’ Raman wants more wildly expensive public toilets

🔮 The socialist city councilwoman, who’s running to “fail up” to the mayor’s office, has proposed a new plan that has the potential to incur new, hampering costs on a city already suffering from a $1 billion budget deficit. assertive

2026-10-24 · New York Post

Feds put California school districts’ ‘TMI’ student questionnaires on notice

🔮 And parents, and not schools, may be left to grapple with years of fallout from a kid’s “exploration” of gender dysphoria. assertive

2026-10-25 · New York Post

Despite Rob Bonta’s dastardly push to stop voter ID, there’s a simple way to get it passed

🔮 And if the 20,000 number — which Essayli called “the floor” — turns out to be to accurate, that would be an even more explosive revelation about how far our elections have fallen. assertive

2026-10-26 · New York Post

Steve Hilton has the only good idea for California’s failed fake train dreams

🔮 Instead, it will only link a couple of towns in the Central Valley, at a cost of over $200 billion, by 2032 at the earliest. assertive

2026-10-29 · New York Post

Dolores Huerta — labor leader who revealed Cesar Chavez’s secrets

🔮 Dolores Huerta, who died Wednesday at the age of 96, will always be remembered as a towering figure in the history of the American labor movement. assertive

2026-10-29 · New York Post

Experienced Karen Bass is a far better vote than radical socialist Nithya Raman in the LA mayoral race

🔮 But socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman is an extremist who will make things even worse. assertive

2026-10-29 · New York Post

Vote Steve Hilton for California governor over establishment hack Xavier Becerra for real change

🔮 Even former Obama administration staffers were appalled that he might move ahead to the general election. assertive

2026-10-30 · New York Post

Ian Choudri’s resignation should not save high-speed rail

🔮 It might just work, because Becerra may think he has an excuse to continue funding it, under new leadership. assertive

2026-10-31 · New York Post

It took four years, but Karen Bass finally shows flashes of common sense

🔮 Good: Admitting the need for change — obvious though it may be — is the first step toward a safer, stronger, more livable LA. assertive

2026-11-01 · New York Post

Time to vote — the future of California hangs in the balance

🔮 This year, it might be tempting to think that your vote matters even less. assertive

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