A New Tax That will Get a Hang-Up from Legislators
Why is a savvy politician like Jerry Brown proposing a new tax increase with only one month to go in the legislative session of an election year? Such a strategy goes against conventional wisdom because legislators up for election don’t want to defend a new tax increase. Yet, Brown argues that the 911 emergency system […]
Preview of Final Month of Legislative Session
As the Legislature reconvenes for its final month of session, it will face more than one thousand bills and numerous high-profile issues to resolve. Although the state budget is done and the most comprehensive data privacy bill in the nation was enacted prior to the summer recess, many more complex issues remain to be addressed. […]
California Politics and the Nation’s
Californians have not seen or heard much from Barack Obama lately. Nor for that matter has anyone else. The former president has been working as hard to stay out of the limelight as his successor is doing to stay in it with hourly tweets. This has not been lost on the political cognoscenti in this […]
Ballot Measures Are Coming. Pay Attention
I once saw a T-shirt that proudly declared, “I put the ‘pro’ in procrastination.” Though most of us won’t admit it, it’s human nature to put off tasks that we don’t really want to do. We all know that “later” always comes sooner than expected. But this election year, the business community can’t afford to […]