The Pain of Detroit and the Importance of Prop 13
Detroit’s bankruptcy and California’s Proposition 13 have been linked in an odd sort of way. Detroit’s bankruptcy has brought out the possibility of other municipal bankruptcies around the country as well as an examination of California communities in trouble, Stockton and San Bernardino. As Californians are all too familiar, if there is a financial trouble […]
Can’t Anyone Free San Diego?
People in San Diego are treating the Bob Filner story as a Bob Filner problem. But the longer it goes on, the more it looks like a San Diego problem. Essentially, this is a hostage situation. The mayor has taken the city hostage. Nothing can get done. Major jobs around the city government sit vacant. […]
Read My Lips……”You Will Keep Your Doctor”
Lost in all of the political back and forth over the President’s Health Care Law is a critically important fact – 85% of Americans were basically happy with their doctors and their health care plans. They had other concerns for sure, but they did not want to lose their doctors or their plans in the […]
Would a New CA Tobacco Tax Decrease State Revenues?
I received two calls from the Board of Equalization late this week claiming information in a story I wrote about the latest tobacco tax bill was wrong. The calls were from Venus Stromberg, spokeswoman, and Brian Miller, tax counsel. SB 768, by state Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, would increase the state’s cigarette tax another […]