Wishful Thinking Already Pushes State Budget
There’s already plenty of wishful thinking surrounding the state budget rolled out Thursday and most of it doesn’t come from Jerry Brown. Republicans and Democrats alike, each for reasons uniquely their own, see nothing but the bluest skies ahead for a California economy that’s featured little but storm clouds in recent years. For Republican legislators, […]
California’s Deficit: The Jerry Brown and ‘Think Long’ Debate
Cross posted on New Geography California has three major problems: persistent high unemployment, persistent deficits, and persistently volatile state revenues. Unfortunately, the only one of these that gets any attention is the persistent deficit. It is even more unfortunate that many of the proposals to reduce the deficits are likely to make all three of […]
What Sort of ‘Courage’, Mr. Crane?
I like David Crane and have been impressed by his willingness to speak out in favor of unpopular causes, even when it’s meant losing his seat on the powerful CalSTRS board and the University of California Board of Regents. That shows political courage. But Crane’s latest effort, Govern for California, which is devoted to electing […]
A Devastating Verdict
Like many other observers, we have found the California High-Speed Rail Peer Review Group has made a convincing case for a fresh look at the feasibility of the California high-speed rail project. The Group’s report was issued as eleven House Democrats — eight from California– joined an earlier request from twelve Republican House members for […]