A New Direct Democracy Right We Need Now in California
The experience of Props 1 and 2 was frustrating to watch. On two significant proposals – a water bond and a budget-debt-reserve formula – voters only got one side of the story (the no campaigns for both were practically nonexistent). Both measures easily passed, without much debate (beyond the Prop 2 debate I tried to […]
The Administration Should Not Regulate the Internet
For decades the Internet has grown, spread, and positively altered our culture and economy, all with little regulation from Washington. But the Obama Administration now wants to threaten that progress by imposing rules written in the 1930s to cover public utilities to now regulate the Internet. Allowing Washington bureaucrats to use the same rules that […]
California’s Emerging Good Government Coalition
The 2014 mid-term elections will be remembered for many things – pioneering use of information technology to comprehensively profile and micro-target voters, escalating use of polarizing rhetoric, historically low levels of voter turnout, and historic records in total spending. In California, in spite of all this money and technology – or perhaps because of it […]
L.A. Pensions: Pay Now or Pay Much More Later
As part of Mayor Garcetti’s agenda for fiscal responsibility, the Board of Administration of the Los Angeles Employees Retirement System (“LACERS”) took the long term view when it approved lowering the investment rate assumption to 7.5% from 7.75%, overcoming the objections of the self-serving Coalition of LA City Unions. This action will require our cash […]