The Border Mess
The border immigration crisis is now a battle of images –tear gassing of women and children and the lawlessness of rushing to break through police lines and scale barriers. California has taken a clear policy stand on immigration passing laws to aid immigrants in the country, legal and illegal. Predictably, those politicians who have been […]
California delegates control of the economy to BANANA’s
Over the years the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and Air Quality Management District (AQMD) have been viewed by the business community as being over bearing and business unfriendly, especially since California is already the most environmentally regulated location on earth. Well, with the passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 617 (C. Garcia, 2017), the California Air […]
A Love Story About California Housing–Part 1
No house on earth means more to me than my paternal grandparents’ small blue home near the bottom of a windswept hill in the Bay Area city of San Mateo. I’ve visited the place thousands of times; I even lived there for a few months when I was 7. But this visit will be different. […]
Gov.-Elect Newsom’s Tax Reform Plans Will Face Bipartisan Resistance
Governor-elect Gavin Newsom says he hopes to amend the California tax code to lessen its dependence on income and capital gains taxes paid by the very rich. Yet the last two serious attempts at tax reform were both dead on arrival, and the political dynamics since their failure appear unchanged or even more unfavorable. With the state […]