“Believe in Something Bigger”
Finally, a major California institution has offered Californians the kind of advertising campaign we need to hear: “Believe in Something Bigger,” it asks us, and we should. Instead of the stale, small debate about California’s future, evidenced again this month with the release of the revised budget, we should be thinking about a bigger, better […]
Keeping Score on City Hall to Improve Los Angeles’ Economy and Jobs
Southern California recently captured the world’s attention with the landing of Caltech’s and JPL’s Mars Rover, the launching of SpaceX’s Dragon Rocket, and the final flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the region’s historic landmarks and locales. These events projected an image that Angelenos all know to be true – Southern California remains home […]
Proposition 65 and Your Daily Brush With Death?
I was once an Industrial Relations and Safety Manager. My job included handling all the regulations pertaining to hazardous chemicals used at our facility. In California, every business is required to have on hand a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for each and every product with any ingredient listed as hazardous under Prop. 65. Proposition […]
Gov. Brown Emphasizes Continued Discipline in his May Budget Revision
As May Budget Revisions go, this one was different. In past years, the annual May Budget Revision has reflected the need for spending adjustments, usually reductions. The final budget normally reflects which programs will survive. Important decisions, to be sure, but the same type of rhetoric each year. This year, Governor Brown made it much […]
FAA: Can’t Process New CA Airline Application Due to Sequester – Really?
The Obama Administration is running a campaign to convince us gullible citizens that a 2% sequester cut will curtail critical services and therefore taxes must be increased. In the latest stunt, California Pacific Airlines has been notified by the FAA that, due to the “sequester”, they had no staff to continue processing their application to […]