Spending Taxpayer Dollars to Push Prop 30 is Illegal
Crossposted on FlashReport Does Governor Brown secretly harbor a death wish for Proposition 30? He claims this massive $50 billion tax hike is his highest priority as he personally stumps the state and editorial boards to urge its passage. And yet, as newspaper headlines have reflected all summer, his actions and other silly deeds of […]
Prop 30 Can’t Be Beaten With Talk of Pensions, Parks and High-Speed Rail
Hey, No on 30 campaign! Could you stop it with the red herrings, please? So far, No on 30 has been talking all sorts of things that aren’t in Prop 30. Yes, yes, I know. The reconstituted high-speed rail project has all kinds of problems. And yes, the pension “reform” legislation should have saved more […]
Facebook May be Down But Apple and Amazon Could Boost California
The high tech/Internet savior for the depleted California budget that wasn’t Facebook – at least not yet. California budget writers were so excited at the potential take from a Facebook IPO, that veteran Department of Finance spokesman, H. D. Palmer was quoted in the Washington Times in February, “If it is as big as it […]
My Gavel
My gavel rests in my hand. Normally it sits on a sound block of rich deep rosewood, the same substance from which it was worked. I bought it five years ago in London. This is a quality gavel, the type a California Superior Court judge should own. It’s a hammer of justice. Justice that my […]
Pension Problems not the Fault of Employees
Crossposted on Sacramento Bee Anyone who reads the papers knows that cities and states are being hit hard by fast-rising pension and retirement health care costs for public employees. Cities such as Stockton and San Bernardino have even declared bankruptcy. But few of those papers make clear that this crisis was not caused by the […]