Mail Ballots Are Shortening Election Nights
Thanks to the rapidly rising number of vote-by-mail ballots, California’s political animals will be getting to bed a lot earlier on election nights. That doesn’t mean things will change for supporters and opponents of tightly fought measures like the Prop. 29 cigarette tax, which is losing by 50,000 votes with hundreds of thousands of last-minute […]
While Delaying Reforms, Democrats Continue Spending
No Real Reforms, Prolonging CA’s Economic Problems The State of California sits poised to fall off a financial cliff with a budget deficit of almost $16 billion. At the same time, the state’s employee pension plan is so awash in unfunded liability it’s been called a looming fiscal tsunami. Rather than demonstrating courage and addressing […]
Job Creation and California’s “Collaborative Consumption” Economy
AirBnB, Froomz, Getaround, Vayable, and TaskRabbit are part of the growing “Collaborative Consumption” economy in California. It is an economy driven by the internet, technology and the entrepreneurship of young Californians. For California’s workforce community, it is creating new markets and new forms of employment. AirBnB allows individuals to rent apartments and houses/rooms in houses […]
California’s Election Reform Flops
Crossposted at the Los Angles Times Hollywood produced “Ishtar” and, more recently, Disney’s “John Carter.” But it has never made a bomb quite like Tuesday’s California elections. Expectations were high. California’s political reformers told us that this would be the year everything changed. After a decade and a half of reform efforts, a new system […]