Setting Salaries is a Tricky Business
The State Citizens Compensation Commission meets today to begin considering whether to increase the salaries of elected state officials. Whether the current salaries should go up, down or stay the same is not up to me – I had a chance to decide on state salaries and let it pass. In the early 1990s, I […]
Our United State of Water
Yes, we’re in a drought, but there’s still good reason to break out the sand bags: to protect ourselves against a flood of conventional media wisdom about California water. As legislators and voters debate proposals for water infrastructure and bonds, TV stations and the L.A. Times have already declared that we’re in a “Water War.” […]
Sen. Feinstein Plays ‘I Spy’ with the CIA ~ Who Hacked Who First, & What Are You Gonna Do About It?!?
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” [Who will guard the guards themselves?] – “Satires:” a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal, written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD Just when you thought the news could not get weirder, California’s Senior Senator, and Democratic Chair of the Senate Committee on Intelligence, Sen. […]
Small Business Needs Certainty Out of DC
California’s unemployment rate is 8.3 percent, 1.6 percent higher than the national rate and higher than almost every other state. In the Central Valley in particular high jobless rates persist. Why– especially considering the recession ended almost five years ago? Part of the reason is our region’s drought, but weather is just part of the […]