The Wall of Debt Just Got Higher
Governor Jerry Brown, joking about Donald Trump’s proposed wall at the border, said if Trump wins maybe we should build a wall around California. Well, there is a wall in California the governor himself labeled–the Wall of Debt—and it just got taller. On Friday, state Controller Betty Yee released a report that for the first time […]
Why Trump May Win the November Election
Some Democrats are salivating over the prospect that Donald Trump will be the Republican Party’s nominee. They believe that not only will Hillary Clinton trounce him, but Democrats will easily regain control of the United States Senate and perhaps take back the House of Representatives, if Clinton wins in a landslide election. But not so fast. Democrats […]
Keeping California’s Edge in Global Competitiveness
As we live in an increasingly interconnected, global economy, numerous factors directly affect a state’s global competitiveness. In the case of California, these factors are abundant: the ability to spur groundbreaking research and to transfer resulting technologies into the private sector, and the willingness to take significant risks on new technologies. The release of the 2015 […]
Protecting the Internet for Thousands of Users
(Editor’s Note: Last week, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor on Representative Greg Walden’s (OR-02) Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, the first bill of the Innovation Initiative. His remarks on this small business endeavor are reprinted below.) “Mr. Speaker, government policy is stuck in the past. Regulators from the 20th century agencies are trying […]