Poll Finds Strong Support for Environment, But Costs Raise Concerns
In the legislative debates over renewable energy, cap-and-trade requirements and environmental protections the specter of economic woes are offered up as reasons not to fully embrace such efforts but a new Public Policy Institute of California poll shows the public is not buying it. If the poll is taken at face value then environment is […]
Rent Control: Knowing Who Your Friends Are
Now that the California Democrat Party has heartily endorsed the statewide ballot initiative to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act that limits local governments’ ability to impose rent control, property owners should be asking gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom and any Party candidate they are thinking about supporting in November: will you publicly repudiate the recent action by […]
A Corporate Wealth Tax: Making the Oligarchs Pay
It may be en vogue among a certain group to express concern about the influence of Russian oligarchs within our political system, but perhaps we should all be a bit more concerned about the home-grown variety, the Silicon Valley and tech billionaires. Given their huge wealth, influence and control over information, we need to start having serious […]
Like Being Hit By Lightning
Prop 47 ushered in an increase in property crime statewide because many theft offenses were made inconsequential misdemeanors that carried little likelihood of incarceration. Last month the Public Policy Institute of California conceded that Prop 47 was responsible for an increase in larceny rates statewide. That increase, they reported, was 9% higher than that of similar states. In 2017 there […]