How Steve Glazer Won
Mindful of the millions they spend electing Democrats, the public employee unions expect legislators to act like the old Soviet-era nomenklatura, compliant toadies who do what they are told. So when one gets out of line it’s big deal. Democratic special election candidate Steve Glazer dared do so, and labor spent $3.5 million trying to […]
Californians See the Housing Affordability Crisis as a Threat to the California Dream
This is an abridged version of an article that appeared in the May/June 2015 Issue 1502 of the Hoover Institution’s Eureka – a bi-monthly publication on relevant California policy topics. To read the full Issue 1502, visit Eureka. To read more about the Golden State Poll, click here. California’s housing prices are the 2nd highest […]
Dick Mountjoy and the “Bob’s Big Boy Poll”
Former legislator Dick Mountjoy was a “Prop 13 baby,” a strong supporter of the measure when elected to the assembly for the first time the year when the Proposition 13 property tax reform was on the ballot. During his campaign for his first office he heard all the official opposition to the measure from the […]
In LA, What They’re Not Telling You About Tax Increases
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, otherwise known as Metro, will most likely place on the November 2016 ballot a measure that would permanently increase our sales tax by a half cent to 9½%, one of the highest rates in the country. If this measure is approved b y at least two-thirds of the […]
Why California Needs More Police
You wouldn’t know it by watching all the news about police-community conflict, or by going to protests against police racism and militarization, or by tracking all the Sacramento legislation on the use of force by law enforcement. But California’s biggest problem when it comes to policing remains the same: There isn’t enough of it. Of […]