Panel: What Government is Looking For? More Taxes.
The legislature passed a gas tax and a document tax to fund housing for the homeless and other fees this last session but taxes will be on the agenda when they meet again, according to a panel at the Valley Industry and Commerce Association’s (VICA) annual business forecast conference held last week. CALMatters columnist Dan […]
Now Is the Time to Create More Seats for People to Run For
You may have heard about efforts like “Run For Something,” which encourage younger folks – mostly Democrats – to stop complaining and start running for office. Because we need new blood in politics in these very difficult times. That’s a good point. But in California, the Run for Something idea faces a practical problem. There […]
California’s Play Book…Lessons To Be Learned
A look back at how California took incremental actions over five decades to protect our environment and confront climate change, while at the same time growing the economy, should be a required exercise for our President, his advisors and Congress who are wrestling, often ineptly, with major issues impacting our state, nation and the world […]
Some of Gov. Brown’s Vetoes Get Praise from the Right
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed only 118 of the 957 bills that came before his desk in the recently concluded legislative session, but some of his final vetoes earned a great deal of attention and praise – even from conservative Republicans. That’s an interesting turn of events given that Brown signed into law most of the main Democratic priorities […]