Next Gen Says High Gas Prices Matter Except When They Don’t
Next Generation is attempting to have its cake shortly after polishing it off. Using data generated by Next Generation, an advocacy organization for clean energy, Senator Anthony Cannella and Assemblywoman Kristen Olsen argued that poor, rural residents of the San Joaquin Valley will suffer disproportionately when the effects of the AB 32 requirements on fuels […]
Donald Sterling Is Los Angeles
Late in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction, Marsellus Wallace—a criminal boss played by Ving Rhames—banishes prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) from Southern California. “You lost all your L.A. privileges,” Rhames says with lethal menace, and Willis quickly leaves the Southland on his motorcycle. If only it were that easy to kick Los Angeles Clippers […]
Support for Boosting School Taxes Drops
Proposition 13 still garners broad support across California 36 years after the tax-limitation measure was passed. According to the latest opinion poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, support for loosening Prop. 13′s two-thirds vote requirement for approving local parcel taxes for schools has dropped from 46 percent in April 2011 to 39 percent in April 2014. […]
California’s Business ‘Leakage’ Becoming a Deluge
The list of businesses leaving California for greener pastures is long and growing. And now we can add Toyota to it. The word ‘leakage’ is the new politically correct term used by legislators, the Governor, bureaucrats and the California Air Resources Board, to describe what happens when California businesses leave the state because of tax […]