Higher Ed Tuition Hikes for What Purpose?
Yesterday, on a post-election panel presented by Capitol Weekly, I raised the issue of potential tax increases being contemplated by public unions and other groups in the next election and said that one of the reasons more revenue was sought was to cover pension obligations. A union representative on the panel scoffed that pensions were […]
Covering California’s Least Amazing Race
In the end, Neel Kashkari lacked the courage to do the one thing that might have made him a household name, and thus competitive in the race for California governor: Get infected with Ebola. Media coverage of elections matters in California, in part because we ask our voters to make dozens of decisions in candidate […]
The Demographics That Sank The Democrats In The Midterm Elections
Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has tried to add class warfare to its pre-existing focus on racial and gender grievances, and environmental angst. Shortly after his re-election in 2012, President Obama claimed to have “one mandate . . . to help middle-class families and families that are working hard to try to get into the middle class.” Yet despite […]
Jobs Are Lost As CEQA Goes Off The Rails
The California Environmental Quality Act was established to protect the environment and ensure that development does the same. So how is it that a project to build hundreds of “green” public transit rail cars in Palmdale was killed by a CEQA lawsuit that has nothing to do with the environment? The time is long past […]
Water Issue Re-elects GOP Sen. Vidak in Dem District
You knew Democrats were in the deep end of the pool over water issues in California back on May 14. That’s when they asked Republican state Sen. Andy Vidak of Hanford to read out loud Joint Resolution 25 in the state Senate. It urged President Obama to find solutions to California’s drought crisis. It is rare in politics for […]