Taxpayers Score Touchdown vs. NFL
The National Football League is coming back to Los Angeles and the winners are taxpayers. Certainly, local taxpayers won when the NFL chose the St. Louis Rams to move into a privately financed stadium to be built at the Hollywood Park Race Track site in Inglewood. The San Diego Chargers have an invitation to join […]
Two Books and the End of the CA GOP
Sometimes the impact of a book is not just what’s in the book, but when you read it. Such was my experience reading Jim Lacy’s edited volume, Taxifornia 2016, while I finished Arthur Brook’s The Conservative Heart. Taken together, the books can constitute the head and heart of a California reform movement for the 21st […]
Response to State of the Union
The President is right to say the world is changing, but his agenda continues to put America in a weaker position at home and abroad to respond to that change. His policies at home have bred division and left people stuck in a stagnant economy, and his negligence abroad has led to more instability and insecurity. We […]
DWP Reform: Set For Yet Another Burial?
In April of 2014, the LA 2020 Commission recommended that our City establish the Los Angeles Utility Rate Commission to oversee the operations our Department of Water and Power, set policy, appoint the General Manager, and set utility rates. But City Council President Herb Wesson buried this constructive measure in the bowels of City Hall, […]
No More Melting Pot
One of the problems in America has to do with the fact that Democrats play chess while Republicans play checkers. What I mean by that is that Democrats often employ strategies which involve a long-term plan using multiple resources to achieve their goals. Republicans, on the other hand, tend to simply react to situations, making […]