Taxes and Jobs
A column by journalist David Cay Johnston in the Sacramento Bee re-visited arguments made by opponents of the Proposition 30 tax increases – including me – that jobs would be killed if the taxes were increased. As pointed out in the article, California has increased jobs since the taxes took effect. However, it was not […]
The Last Days of Heavy Manufacturing in California
In 1993, novelist and California native Joan Didion traveled to the City of Lakewood in Southern California to report on its changing employment and culture. Her essay, “Trouble in Lakewood”, published 21 years ago this week, detailed a declining economy and troubled culture. Lakewood was the largest of California’s suburbs built in the immediate post […]
California Businesses Ally To Ensure Robust Water Policy
If you’re looking for a high-profile manufacturer that for sure depends on water, New Belgium Brewing seems like a good one to highlight. As they say on the advocacy page, “You can’t make great beer without clean water.” And that sounds like a pretty good reason for the brewery to become a founding member of […]
From All L.A.’s Residents-Hollywood’s Battle Is Our Battle
Hollywood’s neighborhoods and residents are under attack by big time real estate developers who are investing billions in too many to count high rise residential and commercial buildings along the three mile stretch of Hollywood, Sunset, and Santa Monica Boulevards between Western Avenue and the border with West Hollywood. This massive densification will overwhelm the […]