Democrat Vacancies Present GOP Legislators with A Significant Opportunity
The impressive victory of conservative rancher Andy Vidak in the recent State Senate special election in the Central Valley’s 16th District gives the State Capitol’s other 36 Republican legislators a reason to be unified, focused and determined as they return to Sacramento for the five week or so final sprint to the end of the […]
Scalia’s Gift to Brown
Gov Jerry Brown lost his latest appeal of federal court order requiring him to reduce the prison population by the end of the year. But Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia handed him a victory in defeat. The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold the federal order last week. One of the dissenters was Scalia, […]
California Employment: “Mr. Ed”
Popular culture can teach us much about jobs and employment. Novels, movies and even television shows yield insights into how people approach employment at a certain time, their hopes and worries, conscious and subconscious. Which brings us to Mr. Ed, the television show centered on a talking horse that aired between January 1961 through February […]
Can San Jose Cut Pensions of Current Workers?
After a five-day trial last month, a judge is looking at 13 issues in suits filed by unions and retirees against a San Jose pension reform. The big one is whether pensions earned by current workers can be cut. Measure B, approved by 70 percent of San Jose voters last year, challenges the widely held […]