You Can’t Build High Speed Rail with No Money
The Legislative Analyst’s “concern” that funding is not available for the High Speed Rail (HSR) comes at the same time that the federal government – a source counted on for HSR funds — appears to be turning against the High Speed Rail. Yesterday, the subcommittee on Transportation under the Appropriations Committee of the United States […]
I Always Knew That Fletcher Gambit Would Work
Am I finished? Somebody hacked my computer and my email and sent a post to Fox & Hounds Daily a couple weeks back after Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher announced he was leaving the Republican Party. Headlined, “Is Fletcher Finished?” the post made the case that he probably was, calling the video departure from the GOP a […]
War on Women: Workplace Flexibility Fails Again in California
Efforts supported by countless business organizations to promote greater flexibility to employees’ schedules have once again failed in California. This week, two measures authored by Senator Bob Dutton (R-Rancho Cucamonga) were killed legislatively by Democrats during a hearing of the Senate Industrial and Labor Relations Committee. Both bills were listed as “job creators” by the […]
No Holds Barr: The Co-opting of the Green Party?
Firebrand comedian and aspiring politico Roseanne Barr is running for the Green Party’s nomination for president of the United States in a move characterized by many as a publicity stunt à la Donald Trump. But the situation is not entirely as it seems. Yes, Barr sought to be recognized as an official candidate just as […]