Unconventional Wisdom Philadelphia
* The Democratic convention offered quite a valedictory for both President Obama and Vice-president Biden. Their boffo speeches left a high bar Hillary to clear. Did she? She is not an orator in a league with Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, but she was comfortable in the spotlight and got her points across. She can’t […]
With Trump, Some Hysteria Is In Order
Tony Quinn bemoans in this space that the possibility of Donald Trump winning the presidency “has set off high decibels of hysteria among the political establishment, and no more so than in blue California.” He takes newspapers to task for publishing opinion pieces defending Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s criticism of Trump, and the […]
A Topsy-Turvey Political World
Listening to political speeches and talking heads around the national party conventions I get the feeling I have fallen through to DC Comics Bizarro World where everything is weirdly opposite of what one would expect. The conventions and their fallout have presented topsy-turvy politics. It is Trump now, not Obama as before, who is basically […]
Why Are State Lawmakers Kicking Online Education Students to the Curb?
Imagine enjoying your summer holiday vacation only to learn that special interest lawmakers beholden to the California Teachers Association are voting to close down your child’s school. As a parent, you’ve never received any school closure information or a single news report. Sound far-fetched? Actually, it’s not. When the State Legislature reconvenes on August 1, lawmakers will […]
Making State Government More User Friendly for Business
(Editor’s Note: The following is a release from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, Go-Biz) Building on the Administration’s efforts to make state government more efficient, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) today awarded 23 state officials across various agencies and departments certificates of completion for the Lean 6-Sigma training […]