Would An All-Electric Car Future Really Benefit Californians?
Sacramento is threatening to outlaw a freedom Californians have enjoyed for more than a century through a bill introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, of San Francisco. If it’s passed and signed, new gasoline-powered cars will become the state’s new undocumented immigrants. Government will refuse to register them. Should it become law, Assembly Bill 1745 […]
DiFi’s Age Should Be an Issue, And Not Just In Senate Race
Enough with the mau-mauing from elderly Democrats that questions about Dianne Feinstein’s age are ageist or even anti-woman. The hypocrisy of those crying ageism is outrageous. If you want to hear real ageism, just listen to how Boomers and Silent Generationers talk about us Gen-Xers, now in middle age, as if we were children. The […]
Finally Getting to the Truth about High Speed Rail
The presentation by Roy Hill at the last Authority board meeting finally revealed a major cost increase in the Central Valley section of the High Speed Rail project ($2.8 billion or 35% increase). This is hardly news to many of us who have been following the project. Indeed, leaked reports of escalating costs (and other […]
Who’s left to hold California’s government accountable?
If you care about this state, it’s time to sound the alarm about the crisis in media and what it means for the health of democracy in the world’s sixth largest economy. Media is declining nationally, but unique pressures have made California into America’s laboratory for a dangerous experiment about what happens to the public […]