California Senators Vote-Policy and Politics
Reasons for California senators Dianne Feinstein’s and Kamala Harris’ votes with the small minority to oppose ending the government shutdown were overshadowed by politics about their political futures. Joining only 16 other United States Senators in a one-sided 81 to 18 vote, both Feinstein and Harris declared that the deal accepted by Democratic Minority Leader […]
California’s School Boards Are Such Class Clowns
You gotta laugh when those folks at the California School Boards Association start talking. I mean, they are class clowns but they are so funny. Take the demands that the school boards issued to the state legislature recently. The public release said: “The California School Boards Association is calling on the Legislature to raise school […]
Will Guaranteed Income Play in Stockton?
In 1797 Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, proposed that a “citizen dividend” be paid to each American and funded by a tax on land. Paine’s proposal—now dubbed Universal Basic Income (UBI) or guaranteed minimum income—is, some 220 years later, coming to California. Specifically, it is coming to Stockton, a […]
California’s Infrastructure Boondoggles Continue
Every news story about the bullet train seems to be accompanied by a photo of workers building a viaduct in Fresno County. This does nothing to dispel the impression that high-speed rail in California is actually a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho: Over here is a viaduct leading over to the mainland. Chico: Why a duck? […]