“Ballot Mirroring” Poll Gives First Snapshot of All 11 State Measures
Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy and the California Business Roundtable teamed with M4 Strategies, a public opinion and marketing research firm, to produce the first in a proposed bi-weekly series of polls on the state’s ballot measures. The design of the poll is to test the ballot title and summary only to see if […]
Union Woes Can Be Good News for Brown
Paying attention to July polls for November ballot propositions is a bit like betting on pre-season NFL games: just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Having said that, though, an online poll by the California Business Roundtable and Pepperdine University School of Public Policy has some mighty welcome news for Gov. Jerry Brown. Sure, […]
State Initiative the Wrong Chemical Reaction
This article originally ran in the Los Angeles Business Journal In 2008, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a program that identifies “chemicals of concern” in consumer products. The Green Chemistry Initiative is designed to protect California consumers from harmful chemicals and, on the surface, sounds very reasonable. But not so say employers who don’t […]
Legislation to Watch in August
The legislators have left the building. On July 6 they began their Summer Recess. They have headed back to their districts to prepare for the fall elections, meet with constituents and hopefully get some rest from the hectic place we call Sacramento. But come August 6, they will be back in session and the games […]
California Must Avert An Earthquake-Created Drought
Water, cool, clear water. We know we can’t live without it. But we seldom think about the possibility that it may not be available when we need it. While Los Angeles was founded near a river, early civic and business leaders recognized that our local water resources were limited, and that we could only provide […]