Want to Draw CA Electoral Districts? Now’s Your Chance
California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission jumps into it’s second line-drawing exercise with the process to select new commissioners beginning this Friday with a Town Hall at the State Auditor’s office explaining the ins-and-outs of being a commissioner. In this era of politicized politics, would be commissioners will be those who can set an example of impartiality […]
Political “MacGuffins” Ignore Facts
Alfred Hitchcock often made use in his films of a “MacGuffin,” which according to Merriam-Webster is “an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking intrinsic importance.” (emphasis added.) The MacGuffin itself is usually irrelevant to the plot. What matters is […]
California’s Scary Trends for Funds and Energy
Everyone knows that one should not concentrate all efforts and resources in one area as one could lose everything thus the proverb to “not put all his eggs in one basket”. We all know that California does not follow the norm, but sets its own path for determining what amount of tax revenue actually goes into the general fund and what kind of energy, […]
Merced and California’s Unfinished Dreams
Have any grand but unfocused ambitions? Have an idea but no strategy to execute it? How about any half-finished projects clogging up your garage? Send them to Merced. That’s what the state of California does. Perhaps this is because it’s so convenient: a city of 83,000 people in the center of the Central Valley, and […]