For the Next Audit—The Air Resources Board
Last week, the Department of Finance concluded a quick audit of the Special Funds portion of the budget that, whether sufficient to look into the situation or not, hopefully will start a trend in performing audits on government program revenues and costs. Next in line should be an audit on the California Air Resources Board, […]
Symptoms and Diseases – Real Reform Needed in Sacramento
California’s business environment is sick. Curing it will take strong medicine – not just treating symptoms but curing the originating disease. We read constantly the stories – businesses moving out, cities failing, schools threatened with closure, state universities raising tuition and cutting scholarships. Huge deficit spending, out of control pensions, entrenched bureaucracies and red tape […]
Legislating the State of California
Here are three things that you can’t legislate: prosperity, honesty and common sense. Both in the aggregate and in the particular, the California Legislature seems to be attempting to defy the laws of economics and reason. By legislating. Let’s take the aggregate. I have written ad-nauseum about the cumulative burden of higher taxes, fees and […]
The Road from Watts, August 1965
August 2012 will be 47 years since the 5 days of rioting in the Watts section of Los Angeles, that led to 34 deaths, nearly 3500 arrests, and the burning of hundreds of area storefronts and commercial buildings, causing over $40 million in property damage. Most Californians today have no memory or knowledge of the […]