Pirates of the High Speed Rail
In the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the governor’s daughter Elizabeth Swann is kidnapped and brought aboard the pirate ship where she demands of the pirate captain Barbossa that she be returned to shore according to the Code of the Order of the Brethren, to which Barbossa responds: “The code is more what you’d […]
Clean Vehicles Should Lead the Way on Transportation Finance Overhaul
Last week I wrote of the release of a study discussing how a mileage fee could in theory replace the gasoline tax, to finance the maintenance and improvement of the state’s transportation system. This notion is embryonic in the realm of public policy. Oregon and Washington are toying with replacing their fuel taxes with mileage […]
Job Placement Technologies on the March in California
The technologies of job placement continue in 2014 to rapidly evolve. Hundreds of technology entrepreneurs are introducing new products and approaches to knock off firms that have dominated the job placement industry in the past few years, including Monster.com and LinkedIn. One of the new job placement technologies is by Ascendify, a California-based cloud software […]
Jerry Brown, Tesla and Selective Common Sense
California is home to the most regulations and the highest tax and public debt burdens in America. It is also number one in the country in poverty. Those results go hand-in-hand and are courtesy of California’s big government mentality. To attract jobs, ever so occasionally the Democrat run legislature and Governor Jerry Brown apply common […]
Are Californians Big Losers?
How do you win in California? Lose big first. That’s a very old bit of wisdom in a state founded by people who abandoned their homes and families to move here and fail to get rich in the Gold Rush. But this lesson has been given fresh context by a new book (Jo Becker’s Forcing […]