Campaign to Oppose Brown Tax Increase Launched
There will be a campaign opposing Gov. Jerry Brown’s $50-billion tax initiative and I will be part of it. Californians for Reforms and Jobs, Not Taxes, sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the National Federation of Independent Business/California, and the Small Business Action Committee, kicks off its campaign today. The name of the committee […]
Free Deborah Tharp!
Last week, a woman named Deborah Tharp was arrested outside a grocery store in Costa Mesa for the crime of petitioning her government. As a video shows, this happened in exactly the kind of place – a space for public use, even within the property of a private retail establishment – where petitioners have every […]
Is Perestroika Coming In California?
Cross post in New Geography When Jerry Brown was elected governor for a third time in 2010, there was widespread hope that he would repair the state’s crumbling and dysfunctional political edifice. But instead of becoming a Californian Mikhail Gorbachev, he has turned out to be something more resembling Konstantin Chernenko or Yuri Andropov, an […]
More Unwelcome News for California’s High Speed Rail Project
Decidedly, early June has not been the best of times for the California high-speed rail project. On June 2, came a new poll showing that fifty-nine percent of voters would now oppose building high-speed rail if the measure were placed on the ballot again. Sixty-nine percent said that they would “never or hardly ever” ride […]