Fractured California – a New Opportunity
California is on the verge of a major political opportunity – if only the state can seize it. With Kevin McCarthy’s election to Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, California now has both the majority and minority caucus leaders in the House of Representatives coming from the same state: McCarthy from Bakersfield in the […]
How Trammel Nets and Other Such Topics Ensnared California’s Constitution
Quick. Can you name an amendment in California’s Constitution? Probably not, but if you vote regularly, you’ve weighed in on a lot of them. Like other state officials, I have sworn an oath “to protect and defend both the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the state of California.” Defending the U.S. […]
CA GOP Bench Just Got Shorter
With Congressman Kevin McCarthy’s selection as Majority Leader in Congress, the chance of McCarthy being a California gubernatorial or senatorial candidate soon has diminished. McCarthy is a very capable politician and richly deserves his new post. He can be very helpful to California in Congress, as Kevin Klowden explains on this page today. And, while […]
America’s New Industrial Boomtowns
David Peebles works in a glass tower across from Houston’s Galleria mall, a cathedral of consumption, but his attention is focused on the city’s highly industrialized ship channel 30 miles away. “Houston is the Chicago of this era,” says Peebles, who runs the Texas office of Odebrecht, a $45 billion engineering firm based in Brazil. […]