L.A. Hotbed for Governor’s Race
If you want to see a candidate for California governor go to Los Angeles. The leading Democrat in the governor’s race, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, will be in Los Angeles much of the summer, piling up speaking engagements. The only announced Republican in the race, John Cox, has dozens of speaking engagements on his calendar […]
Don’t Delay Programs to Grow Manufacturing Jobs in CA
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This sage advice should be followed as lawmakers consider extending two pro-manufacturing bills this year. The first provides funds for workforce skills training, the second encourages new manufacturing equipment purchases. Both are important to support manufacturers who pay $83,000 salaries on average and provide a middle class lifestyle for hundreds of […]
Sacramento Legislation We Don’t Need
Last Friday marked the deadline to get bills out of the house of origin for the California Legislature. More than 600 bills were voted on last week. The good news is that the business community had some significant victories in defeating or stalling legislation that would have made it harder and more expensive to do […]
Prop. 57: Criminals far and wide love it
The ADDA and prosecutors throughout California have grown hoarse warning about the public safety disaster known as Prop. 57. But even we didn’t envision that it would actually incentivize crime by luring criminals here from other states. Yet that’s exactly what appears to be happening. As Torrance police arrested two suspects from Colorado late last month in […]
Wonder Woman And The Battle For Gender Parity In The Workplace
(Editor’s note: A devoted fan of Wonder Woman, Billie Greer’s father believed his daughter and millions of women around the globe would continue the fight against injustice and inequality and together confront the evil powers in the world. As a reminder, Billie found a Wonder Woman comic book in her Christmas stocking each year from 1942 […]
Would Single Payer Violate the Gann Limit?
The California Senate voted late on June 1 to create a single-payer health-care system that will cover every resident in the state with no money out of their pockets. But this “free” health care would be anything but. Its costs are going to be steep, painful, probably deadly – and might violate a key taxpayer […]
The Race for the Best Job Placement Technology
Hundreds of internet firms are now competing to develop the best internet job placement system for job seekers. They are offering technologies that can tailor job leads for the individual job seeker and customize resume writing and interview prep, technologies that can rank and sort workers, technologies that can push out job leads on a […]
For sustainable climate policy, California needs a balanced approach
California has been described as “the leader of the resistance,” and the “de facto climate negotiator for the United States.” These titles reflect a phenomenon happening in this state that much of the country has yearned for from Washington, D.C.: positive action for the benefit of the people. When we had a measles outbreak in […]
Jerry Brown as Bill Russell
For Democratic legislators, the politics of the single payer health care plan is tricky. They have to satisfy the most activist members of their party who support the concept without putting forward a complex scheme that would break the state bank and jeopardize spending on other budget priorities. But legislators have a way to cover […]