The Unknowns of a Dismal Election
This week large numbers of mail in ballots will begin arriving at county election offices, and shortly we may be able to answer the perplexing unknowns of this dismal election, who is going to vote and will Democratic dreams of an enormous landslide be realized. Neither presidential candidate is running a real campaign right now; […]
California State Legislature Picks a Fight with The United States Constitution
Yet another new law confirms union control of the California State Capitol. Gov. Brown has signed Senate Bill 954, which restricts what kind of construction industry advancement programs are worthy of inclusion in state prevailing wage determinations. As you might guess, Senate Bill 954 ensures that employer payments only qualify as industry advancement if they […]
Proposition 67 Plastic Bag Ban Makes Good Environmental — and Business — Sense
More than 450 organizations are backing the Yes on 67 campaign, the effort to preserve the state’s plastic bag ban. There are some you would expect, like the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Surfrider Foundation, and Environment California. But the list is also heavily populated by many that fall in the “not-your- usual-suspects” category: heavy-hitter business groups like the […]
Trump’s Campaign is a Testament to the Strength of Democracy.
The 2016 presidential race has gone from improbable to inevitable to tragic to plain ludicrous. It has turned from a contest about who will be the elected the next leader of the free world into an ugly school yard brawl—a boxing match between two badly mismatched contenders that any observant referee would have stopped a […]