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AG Bonta's Recycling Hypocrisy Will Harm Consumers
Forbes | October 23, 2024 | Wayne Winegarden

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing ExxonMobil over accusations of deception. Allegedly, the company deceived Californians for nearly 50 years “by promising that recycling could and would solve the ever-growing plastic waste crisis,” even though ExxonMobil knew that it could never handle “more than a tiny fraction of the plastic waste it produces.”

The AG may envision himself as an environmental savior, but his lawsuit is merely a hypocritical ploy to garner political attention at the expense of families throughout the country. California’s continued efforts to promote recycling as part of the solution to plastic pollution exemplifies the lawsuit’s hypocrisy.
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The End of Violence? Not Quite
Right by the Bay | Steve Smith | October 22, 2024

In 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle published an in depth look at juvenile justice in California. So struck was the paper by the decline in juvenile crime, the article was titled, “Vanishing Violence.”

The numbers were indeed striking.

In 1995, juvenile homicides stood at 382. By 2017, the latest year of statistics for their report, the number had dropped to 63. Similarly, reported felony arrests declined from 22,601 to 7,291 during the same timeframe. The article declared California’s apparently overbuilt juvenile halls were “near-empty monuments to a costly miscalculation.”
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California Makes Significant Strides in Managing Pro-Palestine Protests at Public Universities
Right by the Bay | Nikhil Agarwal | October 23, 2024

A year on from Hamas’s coordinated and heinous attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the protests on college campuses in support of Palestine which swept the nation earlier this year show no signs of slowing. Under pressure from both their student bodies and donors, college administrators have struggled to adequately protect the right of students to engage in free speech while simultaneously maintaining order on their campuses.

In the last few months, however, California has placed significant pressure on its public universities to clamp down on student protests.
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