I was out of the state for a few weeks but from what I can gather not much has changed around here politically. Democrats want to raise taxes; unions and certain special interests continue their grip on the legislature; and legislators are concerned with transparency only when it doesn’t affect their business. Despite all the [...]

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who passed away today, had a California connection which I was aware of beyond the obvious – her teaming on so many fronts with California’s former governor and U. S. President, Ronald Reagan. Around the time Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979 she met in England with Howard Jarvis, [...]

California, the fabled land of “beautiful people,” apparently has pretty good-looking politicians as well. President Barack Obama kicked up a storm when he praised California Attorney General, Kamala Harris, among having other positive attributes, as being “by far the best looking attorney general in the country.” Gaining less attention but in the same vein, the [...]

Former Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado is interested in seeking the Republican nomination for Governor. He becomes the second recognized Republican to express interest in the job. Assemblyman Tim Donnelly also said he is thinking about running. The two potential candidates come from different wings of the Republican Party potentially setting up a lively and entertaining [...]

The United States Government Accounting Office backed up California’s High-Speed Rail Authority by leaking a report last week that claimed the ridership projections for the new bullet train were “reasonable” – that’s the new ridership projections, which have dropped considerably from earlier reports. Still, those new projections, at somewhere between 16.1 and 26.8 million passengers [...]