Troubling Signs Amid the Budget Recovery
By most measures, the release of Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget was a snoozefest. Without the dramatic revenue dips or spikes of years past, and with scant new policy proposals, this year’s May Revision was about as exciting as a jar of pudding. But one number jumped out. By next year, the state expects 11 […]
Flood LAX Anyway, Gov Brown
I’m out of state this week, having flown out of LAX. This flight – and another one two weeks ago – took me out of the familiar confines of Southwest Airlines’ Terminal 1. I had forgotten what a dump most of the place is. Small, dirty bathrooms. Unreliable baggage claims that are wide open to […]
How Wealth Drives Health — And What We Can Do About It
California is a land of health extremes, and to see what that means, you need only travel a few miles from the state Capitol. Placer and Yuba counties border each other about a half hour’s drive north of downtown Sacramento. Both places are largely rural. But the similarities end there. Placer’s residents are, on average, […]
The Best Small And Midsize Cities For Jobs 2014
In the classic television show “The Honeymooners,” many jokes were wrung out of bus driver Ralph Cramden’s membership in the International Brotherhood of Loyal Raccoons, headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota. When Ralph mentioned in one episode to his wife, Alice, that among the privileges is that they could be buried at the “Raccoon National Cemetery” […]