Business Response to Minimum Wage Deal: What About Us?
Labor unions, legislative leaders and the governor came together on a minimum wage deal to presumably keep a minimum wage initiative off the ballot – presumably because there is more than one way to get on the ballot. More on that later. The governor got what he wanted from the reported deal. Labor got pretty […]
New Rules To Promote Infill May Further Tie Up New Housing
California’s most influential and notorious environmental law, CEQA, has taken on more new forms than the Terminator. Originally written in 1970 to disclose local environmental impacts of government projects, the California Environmental Quality Act has morphed into a powerful tool requiring deep analysis and mitigation of a long list of environmental impacts of public and private […]
Will The Donald Govern Like Arnold?
They’re both iconic figures in American culture who are known by their first names. California’s former governor is Arnold. The GOP presidential front-runner is The Donald. We Californians, who lived through Arnold’s two terms in the governor’s office, have watched The Donald’s presidential campaign unfold with a sense of deja vu. Donald Trump starred in the […]
Why The Gap In Educational Achievement Persists
This country faces a real problem in the quality of education as it continues its effort to close the achievement gap in education and to push all students into college. Starting with the Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the battle to raise the scores of minority children and provide a better foundation for […]