Governor Brown’s Attack on Prop 218 Is a Threat to the Middle Class
Governor Brown has foolishly decided to poke a hornets’ nest with his signing of Assembly Bill 401. While AB 401 itself isn’t particularly controversial, as it merely authorizes a couple of state agencies to devise a plan by 2018 to assist low income individuals with paying their water bills, the problem is what Brown wrote […]
Will the Brown Administration’s War on Climate Change Doom the State’s Logistics Industry?
California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. has long had a tortuous relationship with state transportation policy. The latest episode, involving his administration’s proposals to sharply reduce the harmful air emissions associated with the movement of goods is no exception. Last December, the state’s Transportation Agency published the 263-page California Freight Mobility Plan. Among other things, […]
Angelenos Never Cared Much About Local Politics
Greetings from the City of Los Angeles, where no one knows your name. At last estimate, Los Angeles’ population topped 3.9 million. In 1850, when the city was first incorporated, approximately 1,600 people lived here. In the last 165 years LA’s size and population have changed in almost every conceivable way. But this growth hasn’t […]
Perhaps A Tea Party Speakership!
Since the Republican leadership in the House appears unwilling or incapable of governing maybe it should hand over the Speakership to those who think they can. Perhaps the next Speaker should be a Tea Party member with unassailable credentials ready to rescue the majority from its untenable position. The GOP is in a permanent state […]