Envoy Air will need to lay off over 1,100 pilots as it moves through a downsizing adjustment as a result of the merger between US Airways and American Airlines. The new American Airlines Group is reducing the carrier’s routes and
Opposition to Common Core education policies is creating strange political bedfellows. Now, even the Chicago Teachers Union is joining conservatives in opposition to the top-down education standards. On its blog, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) published a new resolution announcing
While Californians bathe Jerry Brown with an almost 60% approval rating, Wednesday’s Los Angeles Times reported that the state is now facing a staggering $340 billion in long-term costs, which calculates to an $8,500 debt for every California resident. According to
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined the “Discussion on Faith & Freedom in the Public Square” at HBU Houston Baptist University last week and gave a passionate answer to a question about school choice. Cruz said, “School choice is the civil
In an open letter to supporters filled with lofty 21st Century education rhetoric, Sen. Wendy Davis is back at it again, continuing her jab-fest directed at Greg Abbott, GOP nominee for governor who is also the current Texas Attorney General. This
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker never got a college degree. He says it is one of his biggest regrets in life. It weighs on him so heavily that his spokesman recently said the Governor is now considering going back to school
“Illinois, you put me in a happy state.” That was the tagline from Illinois tourism ads in the mid-1980s, which were near-ubiquitous in an era when John Hughes was filming Chicago hits like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and, of course,
The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) filed a May Day brief in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals saying that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes’ December ruling in the City of Detroit bankruptcy case was wrong to conclude
May Day anti-government protests in Turkey were met with police, tear gas, and orders to disperse. According to the BBC, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters to “give up hopes” of gathering in Taksim Square to protest. However,
An elderly UKIP supporter is fast-gaining online fame after being photographed sticking two fingers up to anti-UKIP protestors in Swansea. The unidentified lady was been wheeled into a UKIP rally in her wheelchair when she was berated by protestors claiming
Most Americans know that our revolutionary history began when a handful of brave patriots tossed crates of tea into Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxation. But what they might assume incorrectly is that our forefathers did so in response to
In California, a public school teacher can be fired at any time without cause during the first two years of employment. After that, however, about 98 percent of teachers manage to attain tenure–or, more accurately, “permanence.” Principals make tenure decisions
Sean McGarvey, president of the North America’s Building Trades Unions, testified before a House Oversight Hearing on “American Energy Jobs: Opportunities for Skilled Trades Workers” on Tuesday and spoke out against the Obama administration’s decision to delay a decision on
A growing number of San Francisco city workers can’t afford to pay their rent. The latest tech boom has caused rents to skyrocket, displacing hundreds of middle class workers. “Maybe you could find somebody who works for Google or YouTube, and they
Over four decades of majority and super-majority rule by Democrats in the California Senate and state Assembly, which has emasculated the power of the Republicans, has also forced major corporations to seek moderate Democrats to help move forward their big
In a nearly 1,700 word story aimed at revealing the “extreme” union policies of Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker, The New York Times also put in a few good words for Walker’s Democrat opponent. But even after spending paragraph after
San Diego voters may have the opportunity to vote this November on whether to raise the minimum wage to $13.09 per hour. City Council President Todd Gloria (right, above), the highest-ranking Democrat in San Diego, released a proposal this week
Is the National Labor Relations Board giving labor-movement organizers a face-saving out by agreeing to hear a Northwestern University appeal to the decision that empowered student-athletes to form unions? The NLRB’s eleventh-hour timing certainly sparks suspicion. Northwestern University football players
Despite the fact that California these days is politically dominated by the axis of big government–public employee unions and radical left-wingers–there are still a lot of conservatives here in the Golden State. And we care about the future of our
Maybe the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing corporate free speech in Citizens United is why Kentucky Senator Rand Paul now wants school choice to be a “big focus of the Republican Party.” Nothing else makes sense. This issue has been
The Los Angeles Times reports California GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari wants to make some major changes to the state’s educational system. He says, “We must change the status quo.” Some of those changes include: Taking the state money formerly
With Franklin Tax-Free Income going to court on May 12th to invalidate the pension for making Stockton, California, insolvent, all unfunded public pensions in California may be at risk of being invalidated by the court. In the corporate bankruptcy business, turnaround managers
For 40 years, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has ensured that the Democratic Party owned West Los Angeles. But after a tough re-election fight in 2012 and the likely prospect of remaining in the minority in the Republican-controlled House for the
On Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that labor unions and corporations that receive government contracts should be prohibited from contributing to political candidates to blunt crony capitalism in Washington. Paul noted that speech, “whether you pay for it or
Tesla Motors mined middle class taxpayers for a $495 million loan to build a subsidized car in California for uber-wealthy elitists to thumb their noses from the car-pool lane at the peasants in the low class lanes. Now they want
