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Sacramento Wants To 'CLEAR' Out Private Sector Convenience for Millions of Travelers
Capital Ideas | May 20, 2024 | Kerry Jackson

California lawmakers want to run a business out of the state. What did this company do to deserve such a penalty? Is it connected to organized crime? Did it steal clients and customers? Does it traffic in contraband? No, it simply doesn’t fit with the political class’ sense of equity.

The business is CLEAR, which operates at nine California airports. For a modest fee, CLEAR steers passengers around one of the federal security theater chokepoints. Rather than having to wait in the document confirmation line, CLEAR members are ushered directly to the security gridlock after their identities have been verified by biometric scans.

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A Foster Care Racket
Right by the Bay | Steve Smith | May 22, 2024

In a page right out of Charles Dickens, California’s most desperate foster children, orphans and the disabled have their Social Security (SSI) benefits seized by State of California.

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Embracing Green Mandates and Giveaways Isn't Path to Conservative Success
Right by the Bay | Tim Anaya | May 21, 2024

Embracing billions in taxpayer-funded giveaways to wealthy EV purchasers and spending billions more on infrastructure isn’t a recipe for political or economic success in California.

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