The Not So Civil War Between the Legislature and the California Supreme Court
It has never happened before. The Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court, Tani Cantil Sakauye, accusing the Speaker of the California Assembly John Perez of lying while a prominent Assembly member compares the chief justice to a rookie legislator who does not understand the process. A bitter conflict between dissident judges and the leaders […]
Republicans Should Make 2012 a “Mandate” Election
As featured in BigGovernment.com. We live in The Divided Era of American politics – an Era defined by a roughly equal number of Democrats and Republicans, high partisanship and close Presidential elections. Independent voters often hold sway and candidates court the middle in order to win. Close victories, however, come without a mandate – a […]
California’s Demographic Revolution
Crossposted on City Journal Latinos now make up nearly half of Los Angeles County’s residents. California is in the middle of a far-reaching demographic shift: Hispanics, who already constitute a majority of the state’s schoolchildren, will be a majority of its workforce and of its population in a few decades. This is an even more […]
Conventional Boost
You may have seen the report recently that said Los Angeles had 26.9 million overnight visitors last year, an all-time high. That was an increase of 4.2 percent from the previous year, according to LA Inc., the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau. More international tourists (7 percent) as well as Americans (2 percent) came […]