High Speed Rail Strategy – START to Build it and They Will Come!
The High Speed Rail project found its way into three of the five panels in the Public Policy Institute’s all-day State of Change conference Wednesday. At the end of the day, you understood the High Speed Rail authority’s strategy to gain support for the project – START to build it and they will come! In […]
Let’s Not Recount If Nobody Cares
Assemblyman Kevin Mullin has received a good bit of publicity for his proposals for automatic, state-funded recounts in the event of very close elections in statewide races. He’s probably right to do this. In very close elections — and Mullin is targeting those with margins of one-tenth of one-percent – the case is strong for […]
Metro’s Response to Op-Ed “Southern California Stuck in Drive”
There are too many vehicles and not enough roads in Los Angeles, an area that lags behind other large metropolitan areas in the United States in terms of road capacity so any suggestion that the solution to traffic is just cramming more buses on the streets is not going to ease congestion. Joel Kotkin and […]
Employee Holiday Party Liability Prevention
As you prep for your work holiday party, check your list twice to ensure that you take steps to limit your liability for lawsuits. While limiting legal liability is hardly most people’s idea of yuletide joy, the reality is that the annual employee holiday party could be a legal disaster waiting to happen – and […]
CEQA Abuse Kills Construction Jobs Again
Jon Healey with the Los Angeles Times Editorial Board hit the nail on the head last week in his column about how IBEW, the electrical workers union, used a threatened environmental challenge under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to secure a card-check provision from Kinkisharyo in Palmdale. Then, once the IBEW had that assurance, CEQA was no longer […]