Mass Transit Must Meet People’s Self-Interest
If you want to know why so much legislation, both in California and in Washington, has an “eat your vegetables” feel to it, you only have to look at the Public Policy Institute of California poll released this week. The poll found that 85 percent of California adults are convinced that global warming has either […]
Friday Musings
The Sacramento Bee’s report on lobby spending shows the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association spent more in lobbying than the California Teachers Association. Next thing you know, they’ll tell us the sun is coming up in the west. Perhaps CTA doesn’t feel the need to spend since they helped put many of the legislators into office. […]
What’s Behind Marin Republicans Support of Gay Marriage?
The gay marriage debate has played out on Capitol Hill, at the 2012 Republican Convention Platform Committee, and last month at the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, Marin County Republicans in California decided to buck the national party platform by expressing tolerance of same sex marriage. Let me lend a little background on the move, […]
America’s Engineering Hubs: The Cities With The Greatest Capacity For Innovation
America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson) and electricity (Benjamin Franklin) to the swivel chair (Jefferson). Engineering advances drove America’s quest for industrial supremacy in the 19th century, many of them borrowed (sometimes illegally) from the […]