A New Magazine on California Policy & Politics: UCLA Blueprint
UCLA Blueprint, a new magazine blueprint.ucla.edu of California policy and politics, launched on Wednesday, delivering its debut issue in print and on the web. I’m serving as its editor-in-chief, and am thrilled to be surrounded by a group of journalists who are among the best in California. Each issue of Blueprint will be devoted to a topic of […]
Polls – Same Issue, Different Results—Or Are They?
Two polls were issued yesterday, while quite different in the territory they covered, both contained one question that examined the same issue – a split roll property tax. In one way the results on that one question were quite different. In another way they reflected a probable similar outcome—altering the property tax system will be […]
New Senate Bills will Add to Cost Burden on Businesses
As our state continues its effort to reduce GHG emissions, California manufacturers continue to do their part in improving the environment in the face of higher operational costs, including electricity costs that are 70 percent more expensive than the rest of the country. Two bills in the Senate Democrat’s climate change package — SB 350 […]
Can You Help CareerArc Find the Corinthian College Students?
Last week I wrote about the abrupt closing of Corinthian Colleges (Heald College, Everest College, WyoTech) in California, leaving over 10,000 students short of completing their vocational/job training courses, and/or getting jobs. Well-known Southern California entrepreneur Robin Richards quickly weighed in. Richards is currently the CEO of CareerArc, based in Burbank. He asked how he […]
The Real Fault of San Andreas Is How It Maligns Californians
After sitting through a matinee of the new earthquake disaster movie San Andreas, I experienced my own dark seismic fantasy: as the Big One hits California, a giant hole opens up in the ground under Burbank, and Warner Bros. disappears into it forever. I had been prepared—by the foreshocks of advance publicity—for Warner’s San Andreas […]