No-Frills Bond Has Necessary Water Storage Component
I’m pleased with the actions taken by Republicans and Democrats to forge a bipartisan compromise on a water bond that will appear on this November’s ballot. The $7.5 billion dollar plan is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, while we’ve passed five or so “water” bonds in the past 15 years in […]
Water Bond Proves No Need for California Forward’s 3-Day Rule
It’s done. A multi-billion dollar water bond, the result of several weeks of compromising, posturing, and in the end, bipartisan cooperation the likes of which we haven’t seen in Sacramento in quite some time. Legislators should be proud of what they’ve accomplished — and how they did it. The back-and-forth — right up until the […]
My Turn on C-SPAN Book TV
After a week of writing about water bonds, ballot manipulation and cap-and-trade/high-speed-rail, a little self expression on Friday: my 15-minute interview that aired this week on C-SPAN Book TV. It was recorded in April and covered the background of my modern day mystery novels based on historical events, with a little California politics, my class […]
What, Me Divide?
Divide California into six states? Now there’s a dumb idea. I mean, it took a lot of time and effort to make California the biggest, most ungovernable, least responsive state in the nation. And they expect us to give that up? California went from being among the best in education but now ranks 47th in […]