The Unserious Left Reveals Itself on Single-Payer
Health care is a serious subject. Single-payer health systems provide a serious model for how to get the public the health care it needs. If only single payer health had more serious champions in California. The ongoing effort to pass legislation that purports to establish single payer in the state has revealed how scarily unserious […]
Single-payer, Many Taxes
Working through all the numbers, complications and uncertainties of a single payer plan will take time—more time than the legislature has before making a final vote on the single-payer health care proposal in this legislative session. That means that Gov. Jerry Brown, not concerned with facing the avid single-payer supporters in his party in another […]
Driving Californians Out of Their Cars
In a state whose voters are obsessed not only with curbing waste but trimming their waistlines, it should come as no surprise that state officials want to put California on a “road diet.” Not to be confused with South Beach or Jenny Craig, a road diet basically is tough love. Halting road and highway expansion […]
In California Battles over Product Labels, Industry Usually Wins
Nail polish and hair dye. Cleaning products. Plants and flowers for the garden. All of these could get new labels under proposals being considered by California lawmakers, triggering an annual conflict in the state Capitol over how much to tell people about what they buy at the store or use at work. The bills reflect […]