Looking Forward on Affordable Housing
With the state budget mostly concluded, now is a good time to look at future reforms to bring Californians more housing, affordable or otherwise. It’s called a housing crisis, yet you can buy a 282-square-foot kit home on Amazon.com for $18,800, instructions included. If you need something bigger, there’s a 1,336 square foot kit home […]
Pelosi’s Real Failure on Immigration
The fight between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the “Squad” of young, female, non-white members of Congress exposes a huge problem for the immigration debate and for the country Neither Pelosi nor her young tormentors have a real plan—on policy or in narrative—on immigration. In fact, while the hyper-progressives don’t realize it, they aren’t that […]
We Raise Taxes, Nothing Improves
When California’s gasoline tax went up a few weeks ago, there was a flurry of articles about how state motorists now pay the highest such tax in the country and how gasoline here typically costs $1 a gallon more than most other states. I wouldn’t mind paying more if I could boast that we have […]
In Needles, a ‘sanctuary’ for gun owners—and ‘a little jab in the eyes’ for California
The whole business began with a backyard barbecue. Tim Terral, a 50-year-old cable company worker recently elected city councilman in Needles, on the rural eastern edge of California, planned a cookout for some buddies who live just over the state line in Arizona. Nobody wanted to come. Under California law, they couldn’t bring their loaded […]