Job Creation Needed to Save LA – “A City in Decline”
A Los Angeles city resident reading the newly released Los Angeles 2020 Commission report would be forgiven for immediately packing his or her bags and getting out of town. The independent commission of 13 members created by City Council president Herb Wesson issued a scathing report calling California’s biggest metropolis a city in decline. No […]
Cancel the State of the State Speech
This month, I’m hoping we’ll see the last of a tedious California tradition: the annual state of the state speech. Every January, California governors deliver this address to the California legislature, and the tiny slice of the California population that closely follows state politics tunes in. It’s a political opportunity for the governor to make […]
Ushering in 2014 with Laws that Government Unions and Greens Adore
California’s legislature passed, as usual, hundreds of laws that took effect on January 1st, but two of them are prime examples of how the Golden State has turned its governance over to an alliance of public sector unions, environmentalist extremists, and wealthy elites. Nowhere within this privileged claque is there any recognition of how difficult […]
Reed’s Pension Measure: Too Toxic for Deep Pockets?
Major newspapers and pundits across the state are reporting Wednesday that San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has his tin cup out … or as Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters politely puts it: Reed is trying to get “deep-pocketed backers to pony up the billions of dollars – perhaps $10 million-plus – that they would need […]
Bipartisan Effort Would Limit Federal Spying in California
Federal agencies could find it harder to spy on Californians if a new bill proposed this legislative session becomes law. State Senators Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, and Joel Anderson, R-San Diego, introduced legislation on Monday that would ban state agencies, officials and corporations that provide services to the state from supporting or assisting the federal government […]
Co-Ed Bathroom Referendum Moves Closer to the Ballot
The group pushing the referendum to overturn California’s recently enacted law to open school showers, bathrooms and locker rooms to members of the opposite sex took a huge step forward yesterday when it was announced that a random sample of signatures submitted showed they have collected enough valid signatures to advance to the next stage […]