No Budget Cuts? There May Be a Reason
Governor Jerry Brown did not find one spending item to cut when he approved the state budget. This is a rare occurrence. In fact, you have to go way back to 1982 to find a governor who did not veto a single item in the budget. That governor was one Jerry Brown in the last […]
Northern California Applies Its Disruptive Ways To Energy Markets, Economy
Major energy market disruptions and a fundamental shift away from old growth models are underway in California—with significant leadership from San Francisco’s Bay Area and Silicon Valley—as clean technology hotspots take root across California. New data shows how the state’s economy is getting cleaner as it grows. Numbers from Next 10’s California Green Innovation Index detail an ongoing […]
Gavin Newsom Sticks to His Guns and So Does Congress
By far the statewide initiative that should draw the most attention this November is the one introduced by Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom entitled the “Safety for All Initiative” which would require background checks on all bullet buyers, prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, make gun thefts a felony, and disqualify certain individuals […]
Blowing the Whistle: It’s Harder Than You Think
In 1999, an important measure for the safety and security of state employees as well as accountability to the public was signed into law called the California Whistleblower Protection Act. The law allowed for the seemingly obvious: California state employees should be able to report unlawful or unethical acts without fear of retaliation, and now they […]