Susan Shelley

California

Columnist and Editorial Board Member at Southern California News Group

Columnist, member of the editorial board of the Southern California News Group, 11 daily papers including the LA Daily News, Orange County Register

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Susan Shelley: Environmental regulators harm the poor

1 week ago | dailynews.com | Susan Shelley

A view of DWP Valley Generating Station’s smoke stacks of the natural gas generating station from Burbank Airport on Tuesday, October 15, 2019. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) PUBLISHED: May 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM PDTCalifornia is pursuing better living through poverty. In order to accomplish the state’s goal of pretending to eliminate “fossil fuels” and “greenhouse gases,” California has enacted laws and regulations that are making everything more expensive.
Los Angeles City Hall shakes down hotels to appease unions

1 week ago | presstelegram.com | Susan Shelley

Will she or won’t she? Kamala Harris’ next move
Los Angeles City Hall shakes down hotels to appease unions

1 week ago | ocregister.com | Susan Shelley

If the city government of Los Angeles is not exactly the same as a protection racket shaking down local businesses, you wouldn’t want to try to live on the difference. The city has just approved its latest specially-selected minimum wage increase. The lucky recipients are the roughly 23,000 hotel and airport workers represented by unions that can make or break a Democratic politician’s career. Or racket. You wouldn’t want to try to live on the difference.
Susan Shelley: The ‘California Way’ costs too much

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Susan Shelley

No one has ever totaled up the cost to California taxpayers, ratepayers, consumers and drivers to continue to uphold what Gov.
There’s liability, and then there’s major liability, and then there’s Los Angeles

2 weeks ago | dailynews.com | Susan Shelley

PUBLISHED: May 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM PDTThere’s liability, and then there’s major liability, and then there’s Los Angeles. The question of how, and how much, to compensate victims who file civil lawsuits for damages inflicted by government entities is complicated by the fact that the people who inflicted the damage are not the ones who pay for it. The taxpayers pay.
Susan Shelley: Who had better Mideast ideas, Trump or Bush?

2 weeks ago | sacbee.com | Susan Shelley

This isn't the way George W. Bush did it. According to former President Bush, the way to bring stability to the Middle East was to invade countries and drag our allies into a coalition to join us there. "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make," Bush told Congress in 2001. He also said, in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Feb. 26, 2003, two weeks before invading Iraq: "America has made and kept this kind of commitment before - in the peace that followed a world war.
Susan Shelley: Who had better Mideast ideas, Trump or Bush?

3 weeks ago | dailynews.com | Susan Shelley

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gestures next to President Donald Trump at Al Udeid Air Base, Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) PUBLISHED: May 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM PDTThis isn’t the way George W. Bush did it. According to former President Bush, the way to bring stability to the Middle East was to invade countries and drag our allies into a coalition to join us there.
Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets

3 weeks ago | presstelegram.com | Susan Shelley

Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets
Newsom still doesn’t have the guts or ideas to get vagrants off our streets

3 weeks ago | ocregister.com | Susan Shelley

Homelessness policy in California is built around the idea that no one living on the streets will be compelled to accept shelter, treatment or services, not even housing. However, homeless housing providers can be compelled to accept residents who are actively using hard drugs. And taxpayers can be compelled to pay for homeless housing and services whether anyone on the streets chooses to use them or not. This is the system Gov.
California’s Democratic politicians are setting Californians up for tax increases

3 weeks ago | sandiegouniontribune.com | Susan Shelley

Cell phones have emergency alert apps that will shriek and buzz loudly enough to wake you up at night if there’s an earthquake or wildfire. It’s a good thing there’s no app to warn of impending tax increases. Nobody in California would get any sleep. The state government is in the middle of what it calls the “budget process.” It’s more process than budget.

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