High Speed Rail Won’t be Built with Carbon Credits
Don’t look now, but the California bullet train may derail the Cap and Trade auction. The auction is the scheme devised by California environmental regulators to squeeze billions in revenues from greenhouse gas emitters to finance various energy and environmental projects. It is not necessary to achieve the GHG reductions mandated by AB 32; that […]
Dianne Feinstein’s Common Sense on Lawsuit Abuse
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein put California’s legislature on notice that if it did nothing to curb abusive lawsuits revolving around the Americans for Disability Act she would sponsor federal legislation. Feinstein put a finger on a problem that demoralizes small businesses. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, small businesses (defined as businesses with $10 […]
Penalizing the Circulators
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the signature gathering business in California run at such full blast. The latest: with so much time pressure to produce so many signatures (thank you, Gov. Brown and CFT), there are huge worries about the validity of signatures. In Southern California, petition circulators told me that they are being […]
Autism Awareness Month
While the Legislature will adopt a resolution announcing April as Autism Awareness Month, as the parent of a young adult with autism, it will just be another month. I appreciate the gesture, but the reality is, it will have no impact on my daughter’s life. Being the parent of a child or adult with autism […]