Two Major California Problems are Linked
Wildfires have become a major concern in California after a series of fires took lives and ripped up the landscape in Northern and Southern California over the last year. The danger of more devastating fires is increased in the coming fire season. Homelessness has also been a growing scourge on the Golden State and many […]
Bernie Gives Split Roll the Kiss of Death
If the “split roll” tax initiative didn’t have enough problems, it now has another: the support of Bernie Sanders. The backing of Senator Sanders is the kiss of death for California ballot initiatives. Bernie supported expanded rent control in 2018 and limits on drug prices in 2016. Both measures were flawed, and went down to […]
Election Security is Not an Idle Threat
Democrats are fixated on replacing Donald Trump next year. That was a given the day he took office. There is an equally pressing need to ensure that the next presidential election is conducted in accordance with rules America sets rather than by the Russians or some other nation. If the Mueller investigation and his testimony […]
Ricardo Lara’s long, hot summer
This has been a long, hot summer for Ricardo Lara, a former state legislator from Los Angeles who was elected as California’s insurance commissioner nine months ago. He’s been hammered by a series of journalistic revelations, mostly in the San Diego Union-Tribune, about how he has indirectly reneged on a campaign promise not to accept […]