DMV Report Shows Legislature’s Actions Added to the Agency’s Problems
With the delivery of the report by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s DMV Strike Team it is clear why the legislature turned thumbs down on auditing the agency’s many problems—the legislature itself was a major player in DMV’s troubles. The Strike Team report revealed that two specific issues caused the surge of residents at DMV offices: REAL […]
Soberly Understanding the Numbers Behind Renewables
Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom are recent countries to declare a climate emergency. Neither country has an economy as large as California’s. We are the fifth largest economy in the world, and like the rest of the world we are using more not less energy, according to the British Petroleum (BP) 2019 Statistical Review […]
Lawsuit: California should open its presidential primary to independents
The way California holds its presidential primary violates the constitutional rights of political independents and misuses taxpayer dollars to “benefit wholly private political parties,” a nonpartisan election group will argue in a lawsuit it says it will file tomorrow against the state. A draft filing from by the Independent Voter Project argues that Secretary of […]
Labor Peace at the LA Port, At Least for Now
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (“ILWU”) and the Pacific Maritime Association (“PMA”), an organization that represents the Pacific Coast maritime industry, have entered into an agreement that will allow APM Terminals, a subsidiary of Maersk, the giant Danish shipping company, to proceed with its $1.3 million infrastructure improvement program that will allow APM to […]