An Endorsement That Could Have Impact
A move the California Republican Party made last year to allow endorsements of statewide candidates at the party convention prior to the primary may provide dividends in the first election cycle in which it is attempted. This weekend at the San Diego convention, leading Republican gubernatorial candidates John Cox and Travis Allen will vie for […]
The Other Feinstein Deserves California’s Attention
I’m rooting for one political candidate more than anyone this June. I’m rooting for Feinstein. Not Dianne. Mike. He’s a former Santa Monica mayor and city councilman who is running the most community-oriented and idea-rich campaign in California. He’s running for Secretary of State, so many of his ideas are fundamentally about making the state […]
Stereotyping Beverly Hills
A day after Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding, we can read that Syracuse University suspended an engineering fraternity for a “racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic” video. On that same day, Israeli president, Reuven Rivlin, remarked that “anti-Semitism is in full sight in Europe.” Last year right here in the US, the Anti-Defamation League saw the largest […]
The Never-Ending Story: Indirect Source Rules
For almost a decade, the logistics industry has faced the threat of “indirect source rules” or ISRs. Indirect source rules are a clever way of saying that facilities should be responsible for emissions from sources they do not control. Under the ISR logic, a warehouse in the Inland Empire would be responsible for the emissions of trucks picking up and dropping […]