Ready! Get Set! Propositions for the 2018 Ballot
Is it too early to look to the 2018 California election? Nahhhhh! One thing I’ve urged Republicans for decades now is to go on the offensive. And the best way to do that is sponsor several initiatives every election cycle that outrage Democrats. Doing so, on top of the fun factor, forces them to spend […]
Is CA Better Off Under the Top-Two System?
Since voters approved the top two primary in June 2010, the system has been praised, criticized and analyzed with varying degree of intensity but without a consensus about whether it improved democracy in California. More analysis is coming this Friday as the Schwarzenegger Institute at the University of Southern California is hosting a discussion of the U.S. Senate […]
Force Trump to Prove Voter Fraud Now
For California to counter the kleptocratic, white supremacist movement that’s about to take over the White House, it needs to start treating Donald Trump more seriously, aggressively and strategically. Our failures to confront Trump properly revealed themselves in the official response to the president-elect’s baseless and wholly dishonest allegation that there’s massive voter fraud in […]
Caltrain Electrification Project is speeding towards disaster
The local California Bay Area commuter train, Caltrain, has for years been planning to convert from diesel powered trains, to electrically powered train sets. Obtaining funding for the project, which has doubled in projected cost in the last 5 years, has been the major obstacle for Caltrain in achieving that goal. Now we find Caltrain […]
Kevin McCarthy: California’s Connection to New Washington Power
Election results have shown California’s majority thinks quite differently than the new power in Washington. Putting aside the quixotic quest of the state seceding, California still depends on Washington and requires a bridge to the DC power and money center. California officials will have to find a way to work around those differences. The go […]
Trump Election Inspires New “Calexit” Movement
Forgive the understatement, but Donald Trump’s election didn’t go so well in some quarters. We’ve seen inconsolable weeping, bitter protests, riots that appear to be professionally orchestrated, and a flood of Internet assassination threats. It is discouraging that a democratic election produced such a spiteful reaction. Regrettably, California, where 62 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, […]
California’s Not Built to Become Its Own Nation
California may have the size and economy and independent spirit of a good-sized country. But California is not a nation. Which is precisely why it would be self-destructive to seek to become one. Of course, it’s understandable that, with the election of an evil white supremacist swindler as president of the United States, the idea […]
Public Pension Costs: Potential Good News for Californians
The California Supreme Court has decided to hear the MCERA case, which as explained here potentially is good news for citizens. Now citizens should turn their attention to CalPERS’s board, which in February will decide on its consultant’s recommendation to use a 6.1% investment return assumption when establishing pension contributions. That decision will have a big impact on citizens […]
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