If the CA Prez Primary is in Play, what does that mean for Candidates and Ballot Measures?
As the battle for the Republican presidential nomination drags on through state after state, a number of commentators are suggesting that California’s primary scheduled for June 5 may help determine the party nominee. If that is so, Republican turnout should increase on election day. The potential upsurge in Republican voters could have a telling effect […]
Time to Revisit the Rainy Day Reserve
Governor Brown spent last week paddling his canoe on the left side. As the LA Times’ George Skelton put it, the Governor’s deal with the other teachers’ union “was not a negotiation between left and right, but rather between left and far left.” If the Governor’s “canoe theory” of politics holds true, though, he’ll now […]
Small Business California Survey – Outlook Pessimistic but Better than Recent Years
Small Business California has just completed its eighth annual survey of California Small Businesses. There were 1,067 responses collected with at least one response from every county in the state. The results showed that small businesses overall were pessimistic about the future, but less so then in the past two years. There was a reported […]
Shining Up Hollywood’s Star
A few years ago there was a good deal of civic hand-wringing in Los Angeles because film and TV productions increasingly were running off to New Mexico, Louisiana, Canada – anyplace there was a tax incentive, some of which were egregiously generous. California finally got into the game and passed its own film tax credit […]