Angry Business Voices Ask: “Who’s the Boss?”
Feeling the affects regulations impose on business, angry business leaders attending the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) inaugural meeting in Los Angeles last week had a simple question: “Who’s the boss?” Is the employer still in charge or has government taken over the boss’s role? One employer said the minimum wage increase put through by […]
Connect the World? The Bay Area Can’t Even Connect Its Trains
The northern terminus of SMART, the new passenger-rail system officially opening this weekend in the North Bay, is the Sonoma County Airport Station in Santa Rosa. But after my 8-year-old son and I disembarked from an Alaska Airlines flight, we learned that the airport is more than a mile away from the train. We didn’t […]
California Population Lags Behind Projections
Halfway through the new decade, California, widely seen as an irresistible force for the young and ambitious, is underperforming the state’s own demographic projections. Since 2010 the state’s population grew 5.3 percent from the 2010 census figure, 12 percent below the 6.1 percent increase projected by the California State Department of Finance. The population increased […]
Three Weeks and 966 Bills to Go
Based upon a rough count, there are 436 pending measures on the Assembly and Senate Floors (292 on Senate Floor and 144 on Assembly Floor) as of this Monday’s floor session (August 28). In addition, there are about 511 pending measures in the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees (347 in Senate and 164 in Assembly). […]