F&H Daily’s Sixth Annual Black Bart Award Week
For the past five years frequent contributors to this page Joe Mathews, John Wildermuth and I have nominated candidates for Californian of the Year in the world of politics. We name the final selection the winner of the Black Bart Award. There are no specific criteria to follow in making the selection. Each author will […]
Can We Raise Taxes Without More Ballot Box Budgeting?
There’s already a ton of talk about which tax-raising initiatives might end up on the 2016 ballot. I’m sympathetic to tax increases — by themselves. The state needs more money. And taxes on things that we want to reduce use of – cigarettes, alcohol, horse-race news coverage (I’m only half-joking about that last – feel […]
Dog Days for Defenders of Plastic Bags
Columnist Katy Grimes recently criticized SB 270, California’s new law banning single-use plastic bags and replacing them with reusable bags and recyclable paper bags, and praised efforts by a handful of out-of-state plastic bag manufacturers to suspend implementation of this law through the state’s referendum process. “Staring at a gigantic German Shepherd poop on my […]
Top 10 Measures Likely to Appear on November 2016 California Ballot
The General Election ballot in 2016 is likely to have more statewide ballot measures on it than California voters have seen in a long time. The main reason for this is that the number of signatures needed in order to qualify a statutory measure or even a constitutional amendment have plummeted with the pathetically low […]