Poll: Tax that Guy Behind the Tree
The new Public Policy Institute poll indicates California voters are not eager for taxes on themselves but would consider raising taxes they perceive to be on others. While likely voters came out heavily against a sales tax on services and a vehicle license fee increase, they favored raising taxes on commercial property. One immediately thinks […]
A Lesson From Los Angeles: Pension Changes Best Made at the Bargaining Table
Just like that, in less than a month the so-called pension “reform” plan being pedaled by Los Angeles’ mayor from the 1990s Richard Riordan fizzled and died. Riordan announced last week that he’d stopped trying to gather signatures to put his unstudied, untested idea on the ballot. So, the idea likely won’t amount to more […]
CEQA Reforms Blow Political Smog Over State
In the wee hours of the night, at the end of the last legislative session, language was added into a bill to push forward reforms to California’s 40-year old environmental policy, the California Environmental Quality Act. The reforms were sponsored by the CEQA Working Group, a business-labor-government coalition. Intended to reduce frivolous environmental litigation and […]
The 2013 CALA Legal Reform Wish List
California’s economy has taken a beating over the last five years. One thing our legislature and public officials can do to help our economy grow is embrace legal reform to create jobs and make California more appealing to investors. With that said, here is CALA’s 2013 Wish List for Legal Reform: Restore Court Funding – […]