In Brown’s Budget: A Mini “Blow Up the Boxes”
Anyone around in the early years of the Schwarzenegger Administration remembers the effort to streamline and reorganize government by, in the former governor’s famous phrase, “blow up the boxes.” You can find a mini effort to “blow up the boxes” in the budget proposal Governor Jerry Brown unveiled last week. In a budget chapter titled […]
Small Business Needs Moratorium on Regulations
Now that our state legislature has returned to Sacramento, it’s time to call them out for the legislative malpractice they continue to commit on the moribund California economy. While they and the Governor found time to enact 745 new laws last year, almost none of them does anything to improve the state’s pathetic business climate, […]
California Budget Surprise
Crossposted on MPowered In Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed 2012-13 State Budget, there is a line item that anticipates $1 billion from the still-developing cap-and-trade carbon emission program in California. Though that money is not identified with any particular programs yet, the Governor intends for it to be spent on environmental programs that are outside the […]
The One Hundred Billion Dollar Milestone
One hundred billion dollars – that’s what the travel and tourism industry means to California. And that’s a number for the record books. For the first time ever, travel spending will eclipse the $100 billion mark in 2011, according to projections by Tourism Economics. Visit California’s efforts to market California as the premier destination in […]