In Remembrance: President George W. Bush Bullhorn Speech to Emergency Rescue Workers at 9/11 Ground Zero, New York
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2012 Target Races – Part Two: State Senate
Part One of this series described the Assembly districts the California Target Book has labeled as targets or that are on the watch list. Now I turn to the state Senate races. Last week, Darrell Steinberg, the president pro term of the Senate, announced that he would skip the Democratic National Convention to focus on […]
Where’s the Governor on November’s Ballot Reforms?
While Governor Jerry Brown has been thumping his chest over a number of reforms he supported that made it through the legislature in the last days of the session, we have yet to see him embrace some other major reforms that appear on the November ballot. Propositions 31 and 32 would be great strides in […]
The Secret to Finding a Job in California Today
“Ben, What’s the answer?”, Willy Loman asks his brother in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. We are told that Ben went into the jungle when he was 17 and came out when he was 21 and he is wealthy. Willy is an aging salesman, who after 35 years in sales has lost nearly all […]
Richmond’s “Soda Tax” That Isn’t
Crossposted on Contra Costa Lawyer As we enter the season of relentless political ads, the measure dubbed the “Richmond Soda Tax” serves as a good example of what happens when the media meets proponents of a measure and their consultants. Reality often has no major role in the game of politics. Instead, staking out your […]
The Need for City of L.A. Pension Reform is Black and White
The Los Angeles City Council directed Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to begin work on a new pension tier for new civilian hires. We applaud this action and urge the City Council to create a new tier that will greatly reduce the pension obligations of the City in future years. At the same meeting, the […]