Facing a 40-year decline in reading scores, California lawmakers have concluded that it’s time to ask -- politely -- that the state’s K–12 teachers to return to phonics. Bonus: Marc Joffe talks about the deep meaning of Gavin Newsom’s repeated failure to produce accurate state financials. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes:

• Will on NPR’s Left, Right & Center
• Trump administration being asked to greenlight oil production off Santa Barbara coast
• Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AI regulations, bucking Big Tech
• California Enacts 17 AI Bills in 2024
• Capital Record: AI and the challenges for all free marketeers
• California Learns From Mississippi on Phonics
• California Is Poised to Pass a ‘Science of Reading’ Law After a Long, Tense Debate
• Black students need choice, not illegal gestures like Assembly Bill 7
• Los Angeles greenlights controversial $2.6B convention center
• Another California county is losing its only hospital after feds refuse to step in
• Vons and Albertsons close self-checkout as Long Beach mandates more staffing, new rules
• Amid staffing shortage, Long Beach police will no longer send officers to minor traffic collisions
• Reel Inn restaurant among businesses that were told they can't rebuild after Palisades Fire
• Hayward announces hiring freeze, creates ‘budget war room’ after city drains $31 million in reserves
• Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem
• The Mayan in downtown LA announces it's closing after nearly a century

Marc Joffe on BART:

• Marc’s bio
• California’s streak of late financial statements continues 
• BART Audit Flags Overtime Costs, Weak Controls as Agency Spends $96 Million
• BART senior police officer overtime
• SHIFT-Bay Area

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