Don’t Look for the Next President to Rescue CA’s Bullet Train
The Trump Administration is pulling financing from California’s high speed rail and those who can hardly wait for Trump to exit the White House see this as another policy a new president would reverse. I wouldn’t count on it. The Trump Administration is cancelling an additional $929 million promised for the bullet train and the […]
California’s Greatest and Neediest Urban Park
If I had a free Sunday to spend anywhere in California, I’d head for Balboa Park in San Diego. The Golden State has grand urban parks, from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to L.A.’s Griffith Park to Chico’s lesser-known Bidwell Park. But no public space here offers as many different experiences with as much sunny […]
The Bullet Train Fiasco
In 1962, the Mona Lisa was assessed at an insurance value of $100 million. That would be about $837 million today, and not even close to the most expensive painting in the world. The priciest creation ever made with paint is not in the Louvre Museum but in a government office in California, where the […]
Why Are Public Safety Unions Supporting Teachers Unions?
During the Los Angeles teachers strike earlier this year, an article in the ultra-left publication The Nation offered an excellent glimpse into the mentality of strikers and their supporters. The article begins by describing a scene in front of an LAUSD middle school on day three of the strike. A truck driver has arrived to […]