CTA Bides Time To Eliminate Rainy Day Reserve
Sponsors of an extension of the Proposition 30 top income tax rates amended their ballot initiative this week, slightly parting the curtain on the skirmishes yet to come. Recently I wrote of a clever provision buried in the original proposal. Sponsors aim to continue the tax hikes on the upper incomes for another dozen years. But they also slipped […]
Reporters Duped by Prop. 47 Critics Fail to Hold Officials Accountable
You know what’s worst than bad reporting? Using bad reporting as the source for your own reporting. On Monday, a column in Fox & Hounds Daily disparages Proposition 47, the popular 2014 California voter initiative, based on various news accounts to date. But if the author looked closer at what is happening in California, he […]
California Employment: “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” Edition
Last Thursday we had the annual Arc Angel Breakfast at Clint Reilly’s Merchants Exchange building in downtown San Francisco. Over 275 people from local businesses were in attendance, along with State Senator Mark Leno and San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, long-time friends of The Arc San Francisco. As with other recent Arc breakfasts, this one […]
Environmental Activists Turn Up The Rhetorical Heat
What is the endgame of the contemporary green movement? It’s a critical question since environmentalism arguably has become the leading ideological influence in both California government and within the Obama administration. In their public pronouncements, environmental activists have been adept at portraying the green movement as reasonable, science-based and even welcoming of economic growth, often […]