When Even The Dominant Culture Shouldn’t Prevail
An honest-to-God civics lesson is playing out in the State Capitol. Members of the Assembly should take a moment to refresh their understanding of the Bill of Rights. During the debate over the Constitution, James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson: Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments […]
NFL Football Players and California’s Income Tax Rate
Last month, prompted by the efforts to build a Los Angeles football stadium and lure an NFL team, I commented on how Proposition 13’s tax vote provisions were influential in the moves and countermoves on the stadium debate over public funding. But, the state’s sky-high income tax also is a factor when individual players consider […]
Let the People See What the EPA is Trying to Hide
In the Central Valley, exhaust and pollution from big cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles gets blown in and trapped because of our topography. As a result, our air is notoriously worse than other parts of the country. Of course, we want to do whatever we humanly can to clean the air up, and […]
Black Caucus Brings Its Clout To CA School Funding Fight
The Local Control Funding Formula, enacted in 2013, is supposed to make sure more education dollars are used in ways that specifically help struggling students. Gov. Jerry Brown pushed for the education funding change because he said it was crucial to making millions of mostly minority students into productive citizens helping the California economy. Reformers […]