The Neighborhood Legislature Initiative Is Not Dead Yet
It looks like I spoke too soon in calling John Cox’s Neighborhood Legislature initiative dead. And I could still be proven wrong in taking Cox to task for having the initiative fail just short of the number of signatures. Challenges to the full count that found the initiative coming up just short continue. And there […]
Early Action by CalChamber on Initiative Measures Yet to Qualify
Currently, the focus on California elections is on candidates hoping to finish in the top two in the June primary, but potential policy issues determined at the ballot box have not escaped notice of state business interests. The California Chamber of Commerce released support and opposition endorsements on ballot initiatives that have yet to qualify […]
Legislature Not Serious About Fixing Health Care
California’s largest health care system is a single-payer system (“Medi-Cal”) that covers the state’s 13 million poorest residents, a population greater than all but four states. Service is terrible. Despite spending of $100 billion per year, appointments are hard to get, emergency room visits are up, there’s little indication of greater healthiness, and there’s even evidence than uninsured patients do better than […]
Local Tax Hikes Cleverly Packaged
Over the past few years, voters in hundreds of California cities and other local governments were asked to pass tax increases, and indications are that another big batch of local tax measures will be on this year’s ballots. All but a handful of the previous tax hikes were approved, although one failed sales tax, in Coalinga, was […]