Great news for the left coast: California. As the Golden State’s decline accelerates, the New York Post Media Group is launching The California Post to expose the causes of the rot.
Based in Los Angeles, our new edition will contain daily content in print and online, offering the same intrepid, level-headed, reader-focused journalism that’s made the New York Post so indispensable.
It’ll report on news, entertainment, politics, culture, sports and business from a California perspective — and call out the lunatic policies dragging the state down, sending businesses and residents fleeing.
For the first time ever, California is shrinking compared to the nation overall: from 12.1% of the US population in 2010 to just 11.9% a decade later, costing it a seat in Congress — and it’s looking at losing up to five more seats after the 2030 Census.
Since just 2020, more than 500 companies ditched the state or shrank operations while expanding elsewhere, per the Center for Jobs & the Economy.
Why? Life in California has worsened, thanks mostly to unchecked lefty pols.
Taxes are off the charts (the top income-tax rate, 13.3%, is the nation’s highest), yet poverty is everywhere.
Regulatory rules and litigation block development, leading to sky-high housing costs.
Last year, the California Policy Center found the state had America’s highest unemployment, lowest income growth and highest poverty rate.
It highlighted Cali’s ranking by Chief Executive magazine as the worst state in America to do business — for the 10th year in a row.
Notable, too, are the huge costs of the left’s green agenda.
Meanwhile, armies of the homeless rule the streets; crime runs rampant.
Lefty pols like LA Mayor Karen Bass and Gov. Gavin Newsom actually defend criminal illegal migrants.
The recent LA riots, and the fires months before, highlight the duo’s feckless incompetence.
But media there just can’t (or won’t) manage to call out the pols responsible.
Count on The California Post to fill that role.
“Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated,” quips Chief Executive Robert Thomson of News Corp, parent of the New York Post Media Group.
Relax. The new paper will still be fun, and appreciative of the state’s many allures: its stunning natural beauty, idyllic weather, diverse demographics — as well as the unique spirit that drove California’s growth for so long, and still makes it almost a country in its own right.
The new Post will honor the state’s proud history — as the world capital of film and music and a leader in technology, military production, agriculture and tourism. And, of course, sports.
The paper’s set to debut in early 2026.
Keep an eye out: There’s hope for California yet.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
