Your One-Party Government at Work
Here’s what one-party government looks like in California: the voters make decisions at the ballot box and the majority party elected officials shrug and move forward to overturn those decisions not fearing a rebuke when up for re-election. We’ve seen such moves twice in the last week initially on the death penalty then on rent […]
How Much Should We Pay Our Public Sector Workers?
Public employee compensation issues are never far from the headlines in California, but both 2019 and 2020 appear likely to continue the recent trend of increasingly contentious negotiations and the accompanying highly charged public debate. At the local level, in recent months we have already seen teacher strike authorization votes in the major urban school […]
Redevelopment Legislation Marked by Flaws, Benefits
Assembly Bill 11 isn’t about housing, yet. It isn’t about building much in the way of infrastructure, either. What’s more, the long-promised revival of redevelopment in California, it isn’t. Instead, the pending legislation – which co-author Todd Gloria (D-San Diego) touts is “a more robust funding source to construct more affordable homes” – is really […]
Redding’s Supernatural Church
Is this heaven, or Redding? The North State city sits between the godly and the earthly—and not just because of the divine spectacle of nearby Mount Shasta. Redding is home to a church with a commitment to community so intense it’s almost supernatural. Bethel Church isn’t a household name, but it should be. No institution […]