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What the Research Says About California’s $20 Fast-Food Wage So Far – A UC Berkeley study found a 3.7 percent price rise and no overall job loss, while franchise owners and critics point to other data
Surfboard Makers Brace for Tariffs on Foam, Resin and Fins, One Surf Writer Warns – Sam George’s April 2025 column in The Inertia says thin margins could push prices up by as much as 25 percent in some cases
Who Owns the Wave? The Coastal Act, Public Access and the Surfer’s Sense of Freedom – From the 1972 ballot to this year’s Supreme Court ruling, California’s coast has been a running argument about liberty and the commons
Proposition 40 And The Billionaire Exodus: Why A One-Time Wealth Tax Is A Bad Wave To Paddle For – California voters will decide this November on a 5 percent tax on billionaires’ wealth, but new research challenges the economics behind it, and billionaire departures have already shrunk the very base it aims to tax
Six Dollar Gas And An Empty Refinery: How Sacramento Helped Drive California Fuel Prices To The Edge Of A Record – California’s average pump price came within 4.4 cents of the 2022 all-time high this month, and while a war in Iran pushed crude higher, two refinery closures and a hostile policy climate explain why California pays far more than everyone else