The Ghost of 1993 Fires Could Haunt Debate Over How to Pay for Fires
One of the major issues facing the returning legislature will be influenced by the wildfires that currently are consuming too much of California. The legislature is set to determine the extent of liability for utility companies when the company equipment is responsible for some fires. While Gov. Jerry Brown tries to find a diplomatic balance […]
California’s 3 Time Zones?
Do you know what time it is, California? It’s time for new thinking about time, and time zones. By putting Proposition 7 on this November’s ballot, the state legislature has granted us this opportunity to rethink our whole relationship to time. The measure has been described in the media as ending daylight saving time, but […]
Is Micromanagement of Emissions Beneficial to the California Economy?
Looking back, California’s flagship climate change policy Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Initiative was signed into law in 2006 when California was a minuscule contributor to the world’s greenhouse gases. Statistically, the World is generating about 46,000 million metric tons of GHG’s, while California has been generating about 440 million metric tons, which is […]
Political Upheaval and the California Factor
We commonly refer to journalism as the “Fourth Estate—a branch of society that wields enormous influence outside of government itself. It is powered by forces which we generally consider impervious to manipulation by external actors such as enemy governments and rogue enterprises that can threaten democracy. But thanks in part to the invention of the […]