Campaign 2014: Weekly Update, What’s Hot
Entering the last week of Campaign 2014, I am posting my last weekly piece updating readers on the week’s latest campaign news. This is an abbreviated version of the Hot Sheet, which is regularly emailed to subscribers of the California Target Book. Clinton to campaign in key House races: Some of the hottest House races […]
Politics Present and Past
On Tuesday, I had an opportunity to listen to someone running for statewide office in California today and a short time later spend time with someone who helped many candidates run for office decades ago, including one who won the highest office in the land. Ashley Swearengin is running for controller; Stu Spencer was the […]
The California Conundrum
The original unabridged version of this analysis can be found on the Hoover Institution’s online journal, Defining Ideas. To view the survey, please see Hoover’s California blog, Eureka. Jerry Brown is going to win on November 4. Based on the Hoover Institution’s recently released October 2014 Golden State Poll, Brown has a 17 point advantage […]
CA Business Climate Improves in One Ranking; Business Taxes Rank Near the Top in Another Listing
California business climate improved 15 places from 47th to 32nd place according to a ranking produced by CNBC business channel. The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) circulated the ranking which shows California is still 50th in the cost of doing business and 48th in business friendliness but leads the nation in Technology […]