Kashkari’s Attention-Getting Ad has a Point
Neel Kashkari’s campaign for governor sought to gain attention with its first statewide television commercial and succeeded. The ad titled Betrayal depicts a boy drowning before being pulled to safety by Kashkari. The boy is symbolic of the school children Kashkari asserts have been abandoned by Governor Jerry Brown when he appealed the Vergara vs. […]
Shameful Journalistic Abdication on Prop 2
A hefty chunk, perhaps the majority, of media coverage of California governance in recent years has been about the budget. So why isn’t the media applying even the most basic scrutiny to Prop 2, the so-called “rainy day fund” measure that is on the ballot? People are already beginning to cast votes, but the California […]
The Environmental Movement Has Become the Environmental Industry
Who would imagine that investment bankers and venture capitalists would be leading the next environmental revolution? Maybe not all of them, but there were certainly a lot of the financial types mixed in with visionary engineers and builders at the GloSho, a workshop on what is colloquially referred to as green tech. One conclusion: building […]
Anti-Fracking Fervor Builds In CA Even As It Lifts U.S. Economy, Stature
Anti-fracking sentiment in California continues to build, and we’re likely to see a spate of local moratoriums aimed at blocking the oil-drilling process in many cities and counties. This is happening even in places not normally associated with petroleum production, as this Orange County Register story makes clear. In Brea, residents started researching fracking, gathering […]
Updating 911 Location Standards Could Save 1,200 Lives Each Year in California
Did you know that when a person calls a 911 operator from a mobile phone, they often aren’t able to locate the caller? If this is startling to you, it should be. As a retired Deputy Sheriff, I can tell you that every minute that first responders need to spend trying to find the callers […]