F&H Daily’s Eighth Annual Black Bart Award Week
For the past seven years frequent contributors to this page Joe Mathews, John Wildermuth and I have nominated candidates for Californian of the Year in the world of politics. We name the final selection the winner of the Black Bart Award. There are no specific criteria to follow in making the selection. Each author will […]
Black Bart Award Nominee: Kamala Harris
I was tempted to nominate Dino Cortopassi, the Stockton businessman-farmer-philanthropist. He perhaps most clearly expressed the Black Bart spirit, putting forth a ballot initiative, Prop 53’s limit on revenue bonds of $2 billion or more, that shook up the political class and sparked a real debate on debt in the state. And he did it […]
Will the California Business Community Get Hit with New Tax Increases?
As the 2017 California Legislative Session gets underway, and with the newly-acquired super-majority status of Democrats in both the State Assembly and State Senate, the business community is concerned about potential tax increases brewing in the Legislature, despite the massive tax increases adopted by voters in early November. Similar to when Democrats captured their super-majority […]
Analyzing the Election Vote and What it Means for Coming Elections
Secretary of State Alex Padilla released the certified final results of the November 8 general election. Turnout among registered voters was about average of presidential general elections since 1976. (See below.) The vote margin Clinton garnered over Trump is 4,269,978. The national popular vote margin is ~2.9 million, meaning California accounts for all of Clinton’s popular vote margin, plus an additional […]