Governors Wilson and Davis View Environmental Laws Differently
Town Hall Los Angeles hosted a discussion between former California governors Pete Wilson and Gray Davis yesterday with the two disagreeing over environmental law regulations and touching on other policy issues and state politics. Wilson argued that the reason California had both the highest taxes and the highest poverty rates in the country is because […]
My Lawn Is Worse Than Yours
Forgive me for bragging, but my front lawn looks a lot worse than yours. As the drought deepens and the state water board revises its plans for mandatory restrictions this week, California’s lawn culture has flipped, dirt-side up. With outdoor watering being called a society-threatening scourge, your local community pillars, once celebrated for lawns and […]
Why California’s Salad Days Have Wilted
“Science,” wrote the University of California’s first President Daniel Coit Gilman, “is the mother of California.” In making this assertion, Gilman was referring mostly to finding ways to overcoming the state’s “peculiar geographical position” so that the state could develop its “undeveloped resources.” Nowhere was this more true than in the case of water. Except […]
Editor’s Note
“Probolsky Research has just completed a new statewide poll where we asked voters about whether or not business taxes need to be reformed now or after the 2016 elections. 61.6% of respondents said that business taxes need to be reformed now and the economy cant wait until after 2016. Also of note, was this strong […]
Californians Deserve A Right To Medical Innovation
Last month, California legislators began debating Senate Bill 128, legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients. In Sacramento-speak, this legislation has “legs” and many expect it could become law this year. The bill cleared its first hurdle in the Senate Health Committee on March 25 with all Democrats in […]