Re-Configuring the Proposition 13 Legacy Battles
With actions at the end of last week, the prospective battles to alter Proposition 13’s future came into focus. A measure backed by the California Association of Realtors to enhance the benefits of Proposition 13 for seniors and thus offer a solution for the housing crisis submitted more than enough signatures to qualify for the […]
The Protecting Communities and Local Rights Amendment – A Not-So-Modest Proposal
Communities throughout California are under siege from Sacramento. On a continual and ongoing basis, cities and counties are constantly playing defense, trying to battle a barrage of bad bills that Sacramento politicians would impose upon us, as if they know best how all of us throughout the state should live our lives. In this world […]
Orange County, The New Gotham
Why does a place as big and beautiful as Orange County so often behave in ways that are both small and ugly? That’s the question that occurs after the county government made two recent decisions so stinky that it could be years before the smell wears off. First, county supervisors voted to oppose state sanctuary […]
Recent Years Prove We Need More Water Storage
The first thing to remember about precipitation in California is that it’s unpredictable, as the past several winters have once again shown us. Several years of severe drought ended in the 2016-17 winter with near-record rain and snow storms that filled the state’s badly depleted reservoirs. The 2017-18 “water year,” as hydrologists call it, began […]