Observations on a California Election Night
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox will capture around 40% of the vote. That is pretty consistent with the most recent Republican gubernatorial candidates. So whether you spend $140 million as candidate Meg Whitman did (40.9%), or hardly gain attention as Neel Kashkari (40%), and now Cox, Republican gubernatorial candidates know where they’ll end up. Looks […]
Five Big Winners on California’s Election Night
It’s always dangerous to pick winners and losers in California elections on election night, since so many ballots are still to be counted. But here’s a first blush reaction of the night’s winners, some obvious and some not so.
How to NOT Solve California’s Housing Crisis
There are obvious reasons the median home price in California is $544,900, whereas in the United States it is only $220,100. In California, demand exceeds supply. And supply is constrained because of unwarranted environmental laws such as SB 375 that have made it nearly impossible to build housing outside the “urban service boundary.” These laws have made the value […]