Ugly Lawmaking on Display for All to See
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck Californians saw the how gas tax sausage was made last night. Hopefully, they enjoyed the show because they will be paying for it to the tune of over $5 billion a year. Promises were made to a number of […]
The Pointless Prop 54
Prop 54 didn’t last long. The bill was approved last year overwhelming, with all right thinking Californians, good government types and newspaper editorialists backing it as a necessary reform. Only a few of us dead-enders – we were accused of being against mom and apple pie – dared speaking against it. Prop 54 was going […]
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
This spring marks the first anniversary of the announcement that Carl’s Jr., a California burger icon for more than six decades, was relocating its headquarters to Nashville. It’s yet another business that has quit California in what was once an almost quiet exodus of companies but now looks more like a stampede. The list of […]
Golden Gate Bridge Train Service? It’s Time to Get On Board
If California is as serious about public transit as its urban leaders claim, why isn’t there a commuter rail service running over the Golden Gate Bridge? There’s no good reason why our state’s iconic span must devote all six of its lanes to cars. For more than 50 years, engineering studies have shown that the […]
For CA, The End of the Asian Era
For the past 40 years, the Pacific Rim has been, if you will, California’s trump card. But now, in the age of President Donald Trump and decelerating globalization, the Asian ascendency may be changing in ways that could be beneficial to our state. Rather than President Barack Obama’s famous “pivot to Asia,” it now might […]