California’s Net Neutrality Push is a Solution in Search of a Problem
Sacramento seems to ever be in search of a problem to solve even where no problem exists. Count Sen. Scott Wiener’s net neutrality bill among the efforts to force hard medicine on a healthy patient. Wiener’s aim with Senate Bill 822, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, is “to make it as comprehensive as the […]
Revive Redevelopment Agencies
As I was driving home the other day through Van Nuys, I passed an abandoned vacant lot. You see these around the San Fernando Valley pretty often, and every time I see one, I think through the possibilities for this unused land. The Valley could benefit from the revitalization of these abandoned lots – new […]
Get Money Into the Classroom
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools were inherently unequal. Today, African American students in California experience a different form of inequality. Generally they underperform other students, especially when they are also low income:
Goodbye, Neighborhood Polling Places—5 Counties Switch to Mega-Vote Centers
This election season five California counties are doing away with hundreds of neighborhood polling places and replacing them with fewer “one-stop vote centers”—an experiment sold by Democrats as a way to save money and boost anemic voter turnout from the last mid-term elections. The 2016 Voter’s Choice Act establishes the vote centers in Madera, Napa, Nevada, Sacramento, […]