Warning: This Piece is about Warning Labels
State senator Bill Monning thinks adding warning labels to sweetened drink containers will help reduce obesity and Type 2 diabetes. If his bill, SB 1000, becomes law it probably won’t be the last bill to create a warning label on goods and products. One thing is certain, SB 1000 adds more regulations and more headaches […]
The Science Behind Wining and Losing: A Statistical Analysis of California’s Ballot Measures
“Those who ignore statistics are condemned to reinvent it. Statistics is the science of learning from experience.” – Bradley Efron This November’s statewide ballot promises to captivate all Californians interested in direct democracy (notwithstanding any secret, diabolical, perfectly legal plans to block the 2014 initiative fest). The Secretary of State webpage shows that, as of […]
Walmart, Peter Thiel, the Weekly Standard, and Other Dog-Biters
Our media naturally tends to cover stories that are surprising or unexpected far more than boringly routine ones, and this has certainly been a central aspect of my ongoing initiative campaign to raise the California minimum wage to $12 per hour, the highest rate in America. Labor unions and some prominent liberals have promoted minimum […]
Why Mexico is California’s China
Don’t look now, Californians. Mexico is about to pass us. Americans are intensely aware that China, with its rapid growth and expanding middle class, is likely to have a bigger economy than ours within a decade or two. But few Californians are aware that the growing Mexican economy, with its own expanding middle class, is […]