Body Blows to the High-Speed Rail
Like a punch-drunk fighter, the High Speed Rail Authority must be reeling from the blows landed by Ralph Vartabedian’s Special Report in the Los Angeles Times asserting with expert testimony that the project is likely over cost and behind schedule. And, an even bigger blow could come from the courts removing the rail’s one steady income […]
Will a New Type of Voter Guide Serve San Francisco?
Is this a voter guide or a dating service? A for-profit enterprise called Crowdpac has brought its online voter guide to San Francisco. And the results are both funny or instructive. Crowdpac’s mission is to help people find and support political candidates that match their priorities and beliefs. That’s the dating service part. The natural […]
Can California be Saved?
Crime is back up in California. Los Angeles reported a 20.6 percent increase in violent crimes over the first half of 2015 and nearly an 11 percent increase in property crimes. Last year, cash-strapped California taxpayers voted for Proposition 47, which so far has let thousands of convicted criminals go free from prison and back […]
Conferences and Progress
Californians attend innumerable conferences on housing and economic growth. Year after year, in counties across California, the same people show up to say and hear the same things. Mostly what they say and hear is naive, and nothing ever changes. I was reminded of this when I saw a report on what appears to have been a […]