Yesterday's bill in Los Angeles to ease in a $15 minimum wage is great. But it isn't enough to live on in Los Angeles because housing is so expensive. A $15 minimum wage really just needs to be a first step in the larger fight...
California
The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by.
Labor has made some positive gains recently in organizing the working-class employees of the Silicon Valley. But what's really interesting here is the aggressive attitude of labor: The state's labor.
In addition to a disastrous downtown, Fresno also struggles with a strikingly unfair water pricing system, charging all users the same price per unit rather than charging high water users vastly more per unit than users who use less as they do in Santa Fe....
I think the general LGM consensus on urban planning is pretty similar to many progressives today, which is that cars are mostly bad for cities and walking is mostly good.
Above: Terrible human being Michelle Rhee. California teachers' unions are under a new assault by teachers suing over unions using dues for political campaigns. Members can withdraw but they don't.
Above: Academic plutocrat University of California president (and former Arizona governor and Secretary of Homeland Security) Janet Napolitano sums up the opinion of pretty much all university presidents and provosts toward any of the lowly proles protesting or advocating against their policies that concentrate resources...
California refuses to deal with its water shortages in any kind of serious way. It's so bad that even the articles yelling at California about how to take it seriously.
Pope Francis has decided to make Junipero Serra a saint. Serra was a Franciscan in California who founded many of the California missions in the 18th century, effectively making him.
Given the California electorate, whoever replaces Barbara Boxer should be someone around the Elizabeth Warren/Sherrod Brown wing of the Democratic Party. Of course. many of her likely replacements would likely be be far worse than Boxer. At the very least, can you people not elect...
I recently rewatched The Grapes of Wrath and then reread the book. They are both great pieces of art. Back in my social realist days of art in the late.
The California Attorney General's office opposed the release of inmates because the state wanted to use them as cheap firefighter labor. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that attorneys.