A Party for Citizens and Customers
A recent rainy morning in San Carlos, I’m back to doing something I love: training public sector officials (on this day, 25 of them) in how to better engage their residents in policy-making. While losing a statewide political campaign is uniquely painful, I was most gratified to see that a set of policy issues I’ve […]
Fighting to Keep Gas Prices Low
Who hasn’t driven away from the neighborhood gas station lately with a smile on their face? We are all experiencing a sensation felt by drivers in states like Texas and Nevada for years, low gas prices. If gas prices remain low this year, Moody’s Analytics says it could put $100 billon cash in people’s pockets […]
Team Educate’s Disadvantage in the California Budget Battle
Last week on this blog, Joe Matthews compared the California’s annual battle for state budget dollars to a game between two teams: Team Educate and Team Medicate. He was correct in saying, “…you have to like the long-term prospects of Team Medicate.” Despite repeated cuts to social services, rising Medicaid costs and the Affordable Care […]
Rick Orlov Covered L.A. Politics
I remember doing an interview for a magazine working on a feature about Los Angeles Daily News political reporter Rick Orlov years ago. Rick was an institution then, a steady presence at Los Angeles City Hall and an outstanding journalist. I can’t recall much of the long ago magazine story expect that Rick , in […]
CA Economic Summit Roadmap — Increased Opportunity for All
In the weeks following the release of the California Economic Summit’s Roadmap to Shared Prosperity, the Summit’s co-chairs are outlining how they plan to use this new 5-year strategy for advancing a sustainable growth agenda across the state’s diverse regional economies. Antonia Hernández, president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation, believes the […]