Business “Wolves,” Business “Horses”
According to one report at the capitol rally put on by a coalition of environmentalists and unions opposing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reforms, Robbie Hunter, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California charged that the effort to reform CEQA was run by the “wolves of business.” An interesting expression from […]
Memo to Feds: Leave the Prisons, Take the Courts
Judging by the news of the last week, the federal government is running the wrong part of California justice system. The feds are clinging tight to oversight of the prisons, even though, by many measures, the prisons in California are better than in many states. More resources have been devoted to prison health care. Facilities […]
How California Job Seekers Need to Get in the Door in 2013
The latest national job numbers announced last Friday produced the predictable cheerleading from the national media on the strength of the recovery in employment (see here and here). California workforce practitioners know better. As Fox & Hounds frequently points out, the official unemployment rate and even the payroll numbers less and less describe what is […]
Sequestration Blues
The negative impacts of sequestration on the international trade community are looming for California’s public ports, and what happens here will ripple through the national economy in a matter of weeks unless Congress takes quick action. California’s ports and its goods movement system support hundreds of thousands of jobs, and result in billions of dollars […]
The Administrative State in One Photo
The then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and may she remain forever a former Speaker) took a lot of ridicule during the debate over the passage of Obamacare when she said that we’d have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. I thought the critics had this all wrong. It was, in fact, the […]