CA Tax & Spend Issues Reflect National Debate
Yesterday, two articles appeared that took note of circumstances surrounding California’s taxing and spending. As the most populated state in the union that is not too surprising. However, is the national attention a reflection of how the press sees some of the coming debates in next year’s presidential contest? On the surface, the news report […]
Best Cities for Minorities, Gauging the Economics of Opportunity
This is the overview from a new report, Best Cities for Minorities, Gauging the Economics of Opportunity by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox for the Center for Opportunity Urbanism. Read the full report here (pdf viewer). This study provides an initial analysis of African-American, Latino and Asian economic and social conditions in 52 metropolitan regions currently and over […]
Reformers Get Help In Fight Over School Funding Law
Education reformers and advocates for poor communities have a new tool in the fight over implementation of a 2013 law that was supposed to provide extra help to millions of struggling California students. The Local Control Funding Formula — championed by Gov. Jerry Brown as “truly revolutionary” at its signing ceremony — was supposed to […]
Trickle Down
My lawn is brown, blotchy and blighted, and my heart wells up with civic pride when I see it. After all, we’re in a severe drought. It’s now our duty to deprive our lawns of hydration until they’re little desiccated deserts. The governor told us that. Having our own little patch of burned-out badlands is […]