Looking to Trump the Cost of the Bullet Train
It is more than a coincidence that Gov. Brown invited President Trump to see where the high-speed rail is being built days after a new business report states the cost of the train has soared. Prior to President Trump making his first presidential visit to California to inspect prototypes of the border wall near San […]
The Meanings of the Latest California Job Numbers
Last Wednesday brought the latest jobs numbers for California, through January of this year. We are now in the 94th month of employment expansion. This is the second longest employment expansion in California since World War II, behind only the 113 month expansion of the later 1960s. What do the latest numbers mean? Is the […]
Schaaf Deserves Our Thanks – and Emulation
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, in warning her community about impending ICE raids, didn’t just do the right thing. She set an example for the rest of California to follow. Schaaf has spent a great deal of time looking at ICE raids, meeting with ICE, and understanding what’s going on. And she has come to the […]
Irvine Study on Prop 47 Disproves Its Own Conclusion
A recent study by a University of Irvine professor and a doctoral student purports to examine whether Prop 47 was responsible for the rising crime rate in 2015, the year after its passage. The authors, in what they admitted was a “quasi-experimental” study, invented “a synthetic control group” to compare California’s crime rate to this […]