Confronting Income Inequality: Economic Growth is the Answer
Income inequality is taking center stage as a high profile issue in both national and California politics this year. An op-ed in Friday’s Washington Post by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch gained attention when he wrote there was one issue he agreed with Democratic Socialist and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. (Sanders) “believes that we have a two-tiered […]
An Important First Step Toward a Water Market
What gets measured gets managed, ” management guru Peter Drucker once said. In the fourth year of a historic drought, Drucker’s statement is especially relevant. Simply put, in spite of numerous databases containing information on hydrology, biology, water quality, water use and other technical information, there is no single entity responsible for collecting and reporting […]
Kashkari Proves Brown Wrong, At Last
More than a year after the gubnernatorial campaign of 2014, we finally have a definitive answer to one of that contest’s questions. Is Neel Kashkari a tool of Wall Street? The answer is decidedly no. Yes, Gov. Brown endlessly recycled that talking point, linking Kashkari relentlessly to Wall Street. It was exaggerated then, given Kashkari’s […]
The Golden Land: A Prop 13 “Q & A”
“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” Joan Didion wrote that line about California a decade before Prop 13, the Great Tax Revolt of 1978. The revolt was born out of concern for older Californians, who were being priced out of their homes by high property taxes. […]