Appellate Court Hearing Is Friday: The Case For Blocking The High Speed Rail Bonds
When the California High Speed Rail bonds were on the ballot back in 2008, as Proposition 1A, were you on the winning side, voting “yes” along with 52.6 percent of the electorate? Maybe you shouted “Wooh hooh!” when the result was announced? Then you ought to hope the bonds are rejected by the state appellate […]
Spending Cap and Trade Auction Revenues Will Undermine California’s Climate Goals
To nobody’s surprise, the mere rumor of billions in new cap-and-trade auction revenues has incited a feeding frenzy among legislators and spending advocates. Unfortunately – and unsurprisingly – this frenzy has revealed either widespread ignorance or deep cynicism about how greenhouse gases can be reduced in California. Typically I would not bother with how legislators […]
Go Ahead, Texas: Just Try to Recruit This Californian
I forgive you, Toyota. I now know firsthand what it’s like to be recruited to the suburbs of north Dallas, the region that just stole away Toyota’s North American headquarters, and about 2,000 jobs, from the Southern California city of Torrance. The move—to a property in Plano, on the border of the city of Frisco—has […]
Many Liberals Believe They Hold The Moral High Ground
Many on the far left believe they hold the moral high ground and if only others would stop (a) being so prejudiced and (b) making things up, we all could move forward together. Recent experience has shown me the truth is far more complicated. In terms of liberal prejudice, in a recent post I noted […]
A “Left-Right Alliance” Against Public Sector Unions?
Consumer advocate and left-wing activist Ralph Nader has just written a book entitled “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State.” In a Salon interview published on May 2, Nader lists five areas where the left and right can agree on policy goals: (1) controlling security state overreach, (2) eliminating corporate welfare, (3) fighting military overspending and […]