LA School Parcel Tax Fight Will Be a Trendsetter
The fight over a Los Angeles school parcel tax exploded last week with allegations that the mayor’s office was bullying businesses to back off opposition to the tax. For the business community, the battle over Measure EE is about more than this particular tax for schools. It could a trendsetter over future fights on two […]
SCAQMD actions will get more dollars from blue collars
I can’t for the life of me figure out what beef the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has against local businesses and blue collar pocketbooks. It’s like the Hatfields vs the McCoys vs the McCoys. At every turn of the stone the District is taking potshots at industries moseying down the road minding […]
Doug Jeffe: a remembrance
Campaign manager Douglas Jeffe, who died in a tragic accident last week, combined skill, intelligence, compassion and humor in a career that made him respected by friends and foes and placed him in the middle of the most tumultuous years of California politics. Jeffe apparently drowned April 10 in the Galapagos Islands while on a […]
How CalPERS-sponsored bill increased pensions
The annual payment to CalPERS for state worker pensions next fiscal year is expected to be $7 billion, a jump from $6.4 billion this year — and a quantum leap from $160 million when a pension increase, SB 400, was approved 20 years ago. It was 1999 and CalPERS was in its golden years, thanks […]