Is Shakespearean Tragedy Brewing for the State Budget?
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble—The Witches of Macbeth The state budget cauldron is boiling with forces approaching that could doom California’s bottom line. State officials reported that income tax revenue has dropped 7% from the previous April, the biggest tax collection month. Predictions had the income tax actually increasing this […]
Only San Jose Can Stop the City by The Bay from Gaining Too Much Power and Money
Poor San Jose—so far from God, so close to San Francisco. San Jose is the 10th largest city in the United States, the third most populous in the state of California—and No. 1 in disrespect. With more than 1 million people, it’s Northern California’s biggest municipality—but it’s constantly outshined by those 860,000 San Franciscans to […]
Preparing Workers in California at the Speed of Business
Several of the fastest growing jobs in California did not even exist ten years ago. In 2005, no one had the titles of Mobile Applications Developer, Social Media Manager or Data Science Analyst. Today, these jobs are growing quickly, they’re popular and they pay well. What happened? Technology happened, and we need come to grips […]
Will Average Californians Get Help from Sacramento?
So much of what comes out of the Capitol hurts average Californians. Efforts to impose new taxes, onerous regulations or laws that dictate lifestyle choices like how much soda one drinks, have citizens ducking for cover. But every now and then, bills are introduced that cut against the stereotype by providing genuine benefit to average […]
Statehouse Reporters Review the Top 5 Public Policy Issues in Each State
Everyone knows public policy in the states is more active than in Congress. So far this year states have passed 19,313 bills to Capitol Hill’s 150. That’s a lot of legislation. But what issues are the statehouses so busy with? We recruited more than 52 local reporters and policy observers and asked them one question: […]