Hidden Park Funds & Bullet Trains & Legislative Pay Raises—What’s Next?
While the governor and legislature moved to cut $22-million from California’s state parks and park advocates scrambled to raise private funds to keep parks open, the state parks department was sitting on hidden revenues of $54 million dollars. Another day, another story of mismanagement of our tax money — and Sacramento political leaders say we […]
California’s Absurd High Speed Rail Project Is Perfect Model for Fictional ‘SpeedRail’
Co-author of the Reason Foundation’s 2008 study, “The California High Speed Rail Project: A Due Diligence Report”, whose warnings about the project have over time proven to be accurate. Rarely has one promotional blurb on a book jacket hooked me into immediately opening the pages and reading late into the night. However, this one line […]
Crowdsourcing to find a Job in California
The job search process continues to rapidly evolve in California. Beyond the internet job boards, the evolving internet networking sites and the uses of social media for employment, crowdsourcing is emerging as a job search technique. Crowdsourcing broadly is the process by which the internet facilitates communities of individuals coming together to address social or […]
Parent Trigger Petition Wins in Court
History in the making happened last week when the Honorable Steve Malone in the San Bernardino Superior Court made a highly anticipated ruling on the Desert Trails Parent Union’s “Parent Trigger” petition to transform Desert Trails Elementary School. In his ruling, Judge Malone upheld the parent’s union petition, while overturning the Adelanto School District’s attempts […]