Black Bart Nominees: Joshua Pechthalt and Rick Jacobs
Editor’s note: Joshua Pechthalt and Rick Jacobs are Joe Mathew’s nominees for the Fox & Hounds Black Bart Award. This annual award goes to the Californian of the year in the world of politics – decided by Joel Fox, John Wildermuth & Joe Mathews. The momentum to hand this award to Gov. Jerry Brown is […]
Don’t Forget “Ability to Pay” in Discussing Property Taxes
At the end of last month, the Legislative Analyst’s Office released a primer titled Understanding California’s Property Taxes with a lot of good information — but one politically tone deaf assumption. In discussing the equity of the property tax law created by Proposition 13 in 1978, the LAO postured, two owners with identical properties may […]
Clean Air Is Important, But So Are Jobs
On December 7, members of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board of Directors (AQMD) voted to approve its 2012 Air Quality Management Plan (“clean air plan”). These clean air plans are updated periodically in order to address new federal clean air rules for Southern California. Over the last 20 years, the South Coast […]