Finding the Power to Get Fresh Water from the Ocean
It’s April, for most part the rainy season is over and the severe California drought lingers. Beyond strict conservation, other ideas once considered fanciful or too expensive are back on the table. We’ll skip past the idea of towing an iceberg, as I previously referenced — something endorsed by the California legislature decades ago — […]
Could A New Pro Football Stadium Help California Beat Its Drought?
That’s the ambitious goal of the latest stadium proposal to appear in Los Angeles. The project—details of which are only now becoming public—would provide more than merely a home for the National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars, who are looking to leave their smaller market in North Florida. The proposed stadium would double as one of […]
Memo to Steve Glazer: Being a Democratic “Centrist” Doesn’t Mean Being Against Working Families
There’s a political war brewing in the mix of tony and working class suburbs of the East Bay that, thanks to the Top Two primary, is between two Democrats – self-described “centrist” political consultant Steve Glazer and Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla, a pragmatist perhaps best known for her work on the “Uber” bill and working with […]
Some Encouraging Words For Higher Education
“We have to invest in science and technology and our universities and that’s building for the future, not stealing from it.” Those words were spoken by Governor Jerry Brown on Meet the Press. For those of us who believe that higher education needs to be a priority in California, those were welcome words. It is […]