Internet Privacy Need Not Come at the Expense of Small Business
Although small business is often described as the backbone of the state economy, the backbone can be severely tested when laws are enacted that impose high costs, competitive challenges, or take away critical services. Unfortunately, in the desire to protect consumer privacy, not enough attention was paid to the impact of the California Consumer Privacy […]
Some Good News on the Wildfire Front
As fire raced up hillsides and down ravines in Northern and Southern California recently – killing dozens of individuals, destroying whole communities and leaving countless people homeless – residents of Stevenson Ranch in the Santa Clarita area of the state must have thought back to nearly twelve years earlier when a similar conflagration roared through […]
Water agencies have a role in helping California meet its climate goals
Water, energy and climate are intimately linked in California. With the right infrastructure, public water agencies are in a unique position to help advance the State’s efforts to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and facilitate clean energy technologies. Matching clean power supplies with variable energy demands (load shaping) and the construction of an important new […]
Candidate of Big Tech
In the free-form, roller derby race for the Democratic presidential nomination, few candidates are better positioned than California’s Senator Kamala Harris. She is a fresh and attractive mid-fifties face, compared with septuagenarian frontrunners Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, or the aging progressive Elizabeth Warren. Part Asian-Indian, part Afro-Caribbean, and female, Harris seems the frontrunner in […]