California Needs More Bans Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle
Right By the Bay Blog | Kerry Jackson
October 21, 2019
The recently completed legislative session produced a number of prohibitions and near-prohibitions, including the potential abolishment of charter schools, and increased infringement on the right to bear arms. There were also outright bans of private, for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers; the plastic shampoo, conditioner, and body wash bottles handed out at hotels; and the sale or manufacture of fur.
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Facing Down the Surveillance State
CPO Magazine | Bartlett Cleland
October 25, 2019
While limiting government to protect our liberties is a good idea, a blanket ban is not the right policy. As with any new technology, the approach should not be prophylactic regulations or limitations that are founded on imagined harms or possibilities. That is no better than mass, continuing surveillance by government believing that someone must be a criminal.
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Newsom Includes State Worker Raises in First Year Budget Spending Spree
Right By the Bay Blog | Evan Harris
October 23, 2019
Yet despite fiscal warnings from Governor Newsom himself, $5 billion pay raises will make the state budget that much more unmanageable in the event of an economic slowdown. These kinds of increases only add to the strain on California’s budget.
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Rx for the iGen Generation: Intellectual Virtue, Not Safe Spaces
Right By the Bay Blog | Lance Izumi
October 22, 2019
While many adults are perplexed by today’s young people, a number of important books offer insight and answers to why, according to the cover of one of them, “Today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy—and completely unprepared for adulthood.”
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