Don’t Measure Energy Policy By “Green Jobs” Created
Do energy mandates kill jobs or create jobs? Does government subsidy of energy projects create jobs? According to Severin Borenstein, E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, and former director of the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley Haas School, the pursuit of “green jobs” misses the point. Environmental and energy regulations should rise […]
Political Notes: Senate Race; Chargers Football; Party Registration
With the Field Poll on the U.S. Senate race showing Condoleezza Rice as a leader along with Kamala Harris, many political observers stated that if Rice ran – and she says she won’t – her opponents would try to wrap the unpopular (in California) George W. Bush around her. Undoubtedly true. But more important, I […]
Has California’s Greatest Filmmaker Lost His Focus?
Has Hollywood’s foremost interpreter of California lost his touch? That may seem a strange question to ask now that said interpreter—the writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson—is up for a screenwriting Oscar at this Sunday’s Academy Awards. But Anderson’s work often poses strange questions. Anderson matters because, at age 44, he’s already the greatest California filmmaker ever. […]
L.A. DWP’s $40 Million Fiasco
The trust and confidence of the ratepayers and voters in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the City Council has dipped to new lows. Jack Dolan of the Los Angeles Times revealed that IBEW Union Boss d’Arcy has denied Controller Ron Galperin and City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana “unfettered access” to the […]