California’s Economy has Prospered Due to State’s Ambitious Climate Efforts
Tackling climate change is one of the greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century. As an organization that works with companies large and small, across many business sectors, including apparel, electric power, financial services and technology, and investors managing more than $15 trillion in assets, we can see first-hand how California’s bold climate change policies are […]
Big Changes In California’s Spending
Jerry Brown just proposed his sixth budget since taking office in January 2011. Boosted by a bull market and tax rate increase, General Fund revenues are budgeted to be 32% higher than the fiscal year in which Brown took office. But not all spending has kept the same pace: FY2010–11 Enacted Budget; FY2017–18 Governor’s Budget […]
Voter Fraud: If It Can Happen In Beverly Hills …
In a city in which an election was won four years ago by seven votes, every vote should count. But only the votes that should count should count. And that’s a problem in Beverly Hills. Voter fraud is real. It’s alive. It’s happening. And we have to stop it. Whether or not it happens at […]
Michael Barone Makes the Case for #Calexit
Michael Barone is one of the greatest journalists and political scholars of our times. (Full disclosure: he’s also a family friend). He also just made a very strong case for #Calexit. That does not appear to be the intention of his recent Washington Examiner column. Barone was defending the Electoral College—by arguing that it prevented […]
Why Trump Is Wrong About Illegal Alien Voting
President Trump has called for a federal investigation of voting fraud, specifically whether three to five million illegal aliens voted in the 2016 election, thereby costing him the popular vote majority. While there is much smoke but little fire around this issue, the numbers themselves provide a clear and convincing answer: there is no possibility […]
A Choice For Kids With No Options Left
January 22nd to 28th will mark National School Choice Week, which promotes efforts to empower parents to choose the best education option for their children. There is probably no better example of why children need choices in education than Life Learning Academy (LLA) public charter school. Opponents of charter schools, which are independent public schools that […]
Improving the Health Care Law for Small Business, Employees and the Economy
As President Donald Trump and the new Congress sharpen their scalpel to cut and remodel the Affordable Care Act, what does that mean for small businesses in California? Covered California, the state program that administers the health care act, is probably a better model compared to other state exchanges. Yet, the program has not been devoid […]
Goodbye to the Dirty Harry of Pruning
She left us only recently, and already San Mateo has gotten way too leafy. As I drove through that fine Peninsula city in the Bay Area on the way to my grandmother’s memorial service earlier this month, the plants had returned to their old arrogance. Bushes off Hillsdale Boulevard were growing far bushier than they […]
Address Unique Economic Challenges that Face California
(Editor’s Note: Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, issued the following statement in response to the governor’s annual State of the State address.) In regard to the governor’s message on the improved economy, we want to provide additional facts: The jobs we gained back after the recession are not the same as we […]