President’s Remark on Building a Business is Backwards
With President Obama visiting California yesterday, let’s take a look at his recent controversial remark related to business: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” The irony is that the things that he says help a business grow and mature – the infrastructure, education –are paid for […]
Of The Passing Of David Howard
Crossposted on FlashReport Like so many others involved in California politics, I was stunned to learn of the passing of David Howard, the political director for the California Association of Realtors. Apparently just a few weeks before his passing, David learned that he had Lung Cancer. He was 64 years old. David was a great […]
Education: Who Loves Ya Baby?
Support for education consistently polls well in California and that support cuts across party and ideological identification. Sacramento politicians know this and so, naturally, they say they love education too. But voters would be wise to take claims of support for education with a grain of salt. It’s not educating our children that most politicians […]
Modest Proposal: The Younger You Are, The More Your Vote Counts
Supposedly, America holds to the principle of one-person, one vote. But we don’t live that principle in California. Here, some people effectively get more votes. Old people who have been here a long time. Indeed, dead people are still voting, with more power than us Gen Xers and those pesky millenials. That’s because of the […]
Sustainability Ideology Invented a Stagnant California Dream
Crossposted on CalWatchDog When did the California Dream begin? Peter Huck, a refugee journalist from Los Angeles to New Zealand, has an answer. He writes in the July 20 issue of the New Zealand Herald newspaper “Sustainability Reinventing California Dream” that the California Dream began when Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s William Mulholland […]