Obamacare: A Fiasco by the Numbers
Three months ago, California had six million people with no health insurance; now thanks to Obamacare’s forced cancellations in the individual market, that number has risen to well over seven million (Associated Press says 7,471,000). Yet despite this, the first six weeks of sign-ups on the state’s insurance exchange are pretty paltry – only 59,000 […]
Our Industry and Our Jobs
In 1910, D.W. Griffith shot the first silent movie, “In Old California,” in Hollywood. It was the beginning of a quintessential California industry. The pioneers of the movie industry came to California because the State is tailor-made for film with great weather and every natural backdrop a director could want. For a century, a network […]
The Good in a Washington State Initiative on Initiatives
Note: This post was written last month. Eyman’s measure lost in the November elections, winning just over 37 percent of the votes. If you haven’t heard of Tim Eyman, you probably haven’t lived in Washington state. He’s a libertarian-minded activist and force of nature who is responsible for more initiatives than any one in that […]
Gov. Brown’s Ambitious School Reform Morphs into Teacher Payoff
In 2013, maybe more than ever, the key to figuring out how California works is understanding that by far the most powerful forces in state politics are the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers and the 500,000 people they represent and collect dues from. So when a Los Angeles Unified teacher feeds […]