They Told Charter Schools to Innovate
They told them to innovate. They told them to do things differently. They told them to take chances. They told them to be bold. They told them to increase expectations. They told them to reinvent education. That’s exactly what charter schools did and now they are being punished for it. As an early supporter of […]
Welcome to the Affluent Central Coast, California’s Child Poverty Capital
Californians used to envy residents of our beautiful, wine-and-wealth-drenched Central Coast. Now we have reason to pity them. And not just because Nicole Kidman has thrown her star power into producing a TV series based on the premise that Monterey’s women might be murderers. The past year has brought one calamity after another. Last summer’s […]
Scientific Study Contradicts Basis for State Water Board’s River Flow Mandates
A new environmental study, published in in the prestigious North American Journal of Fisheries Management, reveals that Governor Jerry Brown’s State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) imposed so-called pulse-flow release requirements on water rights holders affecting several California rivers, operating from unproven beliefs the study now shows were without sufficient scientific basis. (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02755947.2016.1240120) Pulse flows, […]
A Post Mortem on Measure S
In the aftermath of Measure S, it seems everyone is offering their post mortem observations about this giant struggle over land-use and development in Los Angeles. I’d like to add my “two cents”. First, the voters made the right choice in sinking Measure S. We can breathe a sigh of relief that a blanket moratorium […]