Do Early Polls on Split Roll Tell Us Anything?
The split roll initiative qualified for the November 2020 ballot is already getting attention in the polls more than a year-and-a-half before the election. But do these early polls tell us anything about that controversial and certain to be hotly contested issue? The questions asked are mostly straight-forward with few of the dueling facts, figures, […]
My Ability as an Independent Contractor is at Risk. The Legislature Can Do Something About It
Being an active member of the workforce with a mental illness is an everyday challenge. For decades, popular culture has defined careers by pattern, consistency, hierarchy, and competition. But this lifestyle is not suitable for my disability, as I require self-supervision and control over my own schedule based on my condition at the time. This […]
Are California’s Climate Change Goals Too Extreme?
Perhaps the biggest looming threat to California’s economy is the state’s pursuit of unrealistic, unworkable and unaffordable “climate change” goals. While polling consistently shows that majorities California voters support environmental policies aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change, many of these same polls indicate that support for such policies drops dramatically if people are […]
Police Cannot Police in Liberal California
California’s political dysfunction is directly responsible for making the state unaffordable for middle class families. The so-called “housing crisis,” the most visible and harmful manifestation of California’s unaffordability, is precisely the result of California’s policymakers inviting the welfare cases of America and the expatriates of the world to move here, at the same time as they’ve enacted environmental policies that make it […]