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California’s governor delivered an 18-minute State of the State oration notable for its many omissions, including underperforming public schools and Sacramento’s notorious “boom or bust” revenue stream. Hoover senior fellow Lee Ohanian and distinguished policy fellow Bill Whalen, both contributors to Hoover’s “California on Your Mind” web channel, join Hoover senior writer Jonathan Movroydis to discuss how market volatility may upend state budgeting, the latest on K-12 ethnic studies, the future of UC-Berkeley student enrollment, plus the field of contenders looking to oust Gavin Newsom this November.
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MLBaseball does not deserve Bill Whalen‘s attention, let alone his devotion. MLBaseball, supporter of Black Lives Matter, accused Bill Whalen and all right thinking people of systemic racism and of seeking to suppress the vote of black Americans.
Major League Baseball is a racist liar.
I was once an enthusiastic Bay Area MLBaseball fan. I even bought a SF Giants quarter season ticket package at Candlestick Park- no fair weather fan was I. But even if MLB weren’t racist liars, they have permitted Scott Boras to transform it from an affordable pastime to a hideously expensive elitist spectacle that truly hates the middle class fan.