Gas Tax Poll Sends a Tremor Through the Political Landscape
A tremor ran through the 2018 California elections with the release of the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll that shows widespread disdain for the recently passed gas tax and vehicle fees–even before collection of the tax begins in November. The gas tax issue could sway California elections from the governor’s race on down, especially […]
Illinois = California Sans Silicon Valley and Sunshine
It’s looking like even the Blues Brothers won’t be able to rescue Illinois from “insolvency,” the fancy word for bankruptcy. Supposedly states can’t go bankrupt, although Arkansas effectively did in 1933, during the depths of the Great Depression. The Land of Lincoln’s credit rating dropped to just a guitar string above junk-bond levels because, according […]
What Awaits California’s Next Governor
California’s economy rises and falls with the national economy: Governors have little to do with those waves but their approval ratings ride right alongside. Pete Wilson wasn’t touted as presidential material until the economy improved in the 1990’s. Gray Davis rode the dot-com boom to high approval ratings until the 2001 dot-com crash. As housing […]
Silicon Valley is testing us
A: Test me all night, baby. No really. Sign me up to be the subject of A/B testing. I’d even be willing to sign a blanket consent form, right now, so that all of Silicon Valley’s biggest brains can test me for the purpose of improving the human future. Everybody’s doing it. In fact, you’ve […]