California Forward Initiative Contains the Closest Thing to a Spending Limit
California Forward filed signatures to put the organization’s reform package on the ballot. While the legislature is considering whether to create a compromise package to satisfy both the proponents and critics of the proposal so that the organization might abandon the measure even if it appears on the ballot, voters are going to have to […]
Gov. Brown’s Budget Is Another Failure
Gov. Brown’s state budget proposal is another failure of his administration to implement a reasonable, rational and responsible budgeting approach. Instead of encouraging fiscal responsibility, his plan utilizes phantom budget cuts, raises taxes on job creators and relies on gimmicks that will only increase California’s already massive deficit. Looking at the entire budget proposal is […]
Social Media and Internet Commerce Job Growth in California
Earlier this month, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) hosted a lunch for its business members with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. Like all SVLG events, the room was packed, a combination of old line financial services and accounting firms, along with newer alternate energy and technology firms. The gathering was meant to cover a […]
In Memoriam: Tom Fuentes
My last contact with Tom Fuentes, the long time Orange County Republican Chairman who passed away Friday, was an email correspondence right before Thanksgiving. Tom graciously wrote that he very much enjoyed the different commentaries on Fox and Hounds and our sites’ “contribution to the dialogue.” Even in battling the disease that would take his […]
Walters on the CA Business Climate: “Inhospitable”
The Sacramento Bee’s Dan Walters column over the weekend rebuking the Capitol’s attitude toward California’s difficult business climate should not be missed. Walters writes: “Making California hospitable to that job-creating investment should be Job No. 1 in Sacramento, as it is in most other state capitals. But California’s politicians have seemingly gone out of their […]