Behind the Green Curtain
California’s role as a global climate leader will take center stage during the international climate conference hosted by Governor Jerry Brown in San Francisco this week. The world also needs to know that California is our nation’s housing crisis, homelessness, and poverty leader. We have highest percentage and highest number of homeless and poor people […]
Business Not United on Gas Tax Repeal
While business organizations are largely opposed to Proposition 6, the gas tax repeal measure, opposition to the measure from business is not universal. Yesterday, the influential California Business Roundtable announced its positions on November’s ballot and Proposition 6 was absent. The California Business Roundtable took a neutral position on SB 1, the gas tax increase […]
The Road to California’s Coveted Electric Highway is Congested
California officials have made it no secret that for the state to adequately reduce its greenhouse gases, a wholesale change is needed in how we transport ourselves and the goods we consume. Namely, gas-powered cars, trucks and buses must be swapped for their zero-emission counterparts. The road to California’s coveted electric highway—like traffic in the […]
AB 1654, another Union Exemption
If you are unfamiliar with PAGA, consider yourself lucky. It stands for the Private Attorney General Act and was put into law in 2004. This law deputizes a trial lawyer to enforce any labor law violation. If you are an employer and have a disgruntled employee, once they see a trial lawyer, they will find […]
Can Your Kidneys Handle Prop 8?
If my kidneys hurt, can I blame Prop 8? Prop 8 is a November ballot initiative of the type that gives ballot initiatives a bad name. It’s a narrow question about what sort of restrictions should we put on how revenues are used in one particular kind of medical facility, in this case dialysis clinics. […]