Legislative Wrap-Up Leaves Challenges Ahead for Small Businesses
With the conclusion of the first year of the 2017-2018 legislative session last week, small business owners are taking stock of the unfortunately long list of new taxes, mandates, and regulations passed this year. The supermajority party did not shy away from utilizing their 2/3 voting power in both the Senate and Assembly to raise […]
How Not to Solve a Housing Crisis
Sacramento just doesn’t get it. A housing crisis is not solved with new fees, bonds, and local government process overrides. For Senate Bill 3 (and 5), I provided the following abbreviated concerns on the Senate Floor: 1 — Let’s review the housing market over the last eleven years. In Orange County, the median price for […]
German Elections Are Easier Than California’s
For years, I’ve been arguing for reforms that would make California’s elections look like Germany’s. The political science description of a German election is that they have mixed-member districts with proportional representation. This suggestion is widely dismissed in California as too complicated and un-American, even though it was American political scientists who promoted it in […]