The Bullying Pulpit
Nurse Ratched is at it again. Like the controlling nurse in Ken Kesey’s classic “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, RoseAnn DeMoro is taking another “my way or the highway” stand—this time over the California Nurses Association’s single payer health care proposal—SB 562. DeMoro, Executive Director of the California Nurses Association, has declared war on […]
Will President Trump and a Republican Congress End Federal Tax Deduction for State Income Tax?
(Editor’s Note: Arnold Steinberg looks at the politics and logic behind eliminating the deduction of state taxes for federal tax purposes. In Part 1 today, Steinberg offers a background on tax deductibility. Tomorrow in Part 2 he deals with the tax deductibility and California) A good friend and solid conservative is concerned that the Trump Administration wants […]
Expand CA Ag Production, Contribute to Better Nutrition
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that reliance on processed rather than fresh foods is having a devastating impact globally on children, showing dramatically increasing body-mass index (BMI) levels in 195 countries, including the United States. The study describes the harmful side effects of obesity, such as heart disease, kidney disease and […]
Land-use Cowards
Amid the myriad and many examples of how government intervention upsets local housing markets comes one of the most shameful in the form of Assembly Bill 121 by Marc Levine, a Democrat from San Rafael. Marin County wants to be exempt from the state requirement that all cities and counties must plan for their fair […]
DWP Labor Contract: Arrogance Breeds Lack of Transparency
On Monday afternoon of June 19, 2017, the Board of Water and Power Commissioners sent us a notice that they were holding a Special Meeting on the following day, Tuesday, June 20, at 11:30 in the morning, to approve the new contract between the Department of Water and Power and the IBEW, its domineering union […]