Another Munger … Another Initiative
Molly Munger, sister of Charles Munger the Stanford physicist who financed the successful congressional redistricting initiative Proposition 20, is set to fund an initiative to raise money for schools through an income tax increase. The brother and sister are the children of Charles Munger Sr. of the Munger, Tolles & Olson law firm in Los […]
California’s Jobs Engine Broke Down Well Before the Financial Crisis
Crossposted on newgeography Everybody knows that California’s economy has struggled mightily since the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. The state’s current unemployment rate, 12.1 percent, is a full 3 percentage points above the national rate. Liberal pundits and politicians tend to blame this dismal performance entirely on the Great Recession; as Jerry Brown put […]
Gays in the Military, and California’s Budget Rules
The two items in this headline would seem to have nothing to do with each other. But they do. The logic of the ban on gays in the military – which is to say the illogic of that ban – is the same illogic that has shaped the California budget process. Before the lifting of […]
Don’t Tune in to this Class Action – It’s a Sham!
The other day I was checking my email on my Apple laptop and an interesting email came in: a notice about the Johnson iTunes Class Action Settlement. This class action lawsuit claimed that Apple advertised, distributed and sold gift cards, which stated that songs could be purchased at Apple’s online store for a price of 99 […]