Quick Hits on the Election: Power of Gas Tax Opposition; Trend Detector in Insurance Comm. Race? And More
Republican John Cox grabbed the second spot in the governor’s race and you can anticipate the three major planks of his platform for November will be the gas tax, the gas tax, the gas tax. That is one issue that separates him from front runner Gavin Newsom. Voters indicated they could be on Cox’s side. […]
Election Shows GOP Is Still California’s Second Party
Many had hoped that the first round of the 2018 elections in California would bring big changes and surprises. It doesn’t look that way. Instead, the election’s preliminary results – it will take a while until everything is counted and final — mostly showed all the things that haven’t changed. And chief among these lessons […]
Brownout
Jerry Brown’s long political career will likely end in January 2019, when the 80-year-old’s second stint as California governor concludes. In the media’s eyes—and in his own mind—Brown’s gubernatorial encore has been a rousing success. His backers say that he has brought the state back, economically and fiscally, from the depths of the Great Recession, […]
Close The Higher Education Funding Gap
During the past quarter century, enrollment at the University of California and California State University has increased dramatically, while State funding for the campuses has declined precipitously. That is a formula for disaster—not only for our higher education system and for thousands of aspiring young Californians, but also for the economic health of our state. […]