Changing the Recycling Process Could Bring New Taxes
You can see it coming from a mile away. While the recycling program in California teeters on the precipice, expect solutions to fix it will involve more spending, including taxes. The California Redemption Value, identified on your sales slip as CRV, is a fee placed on bottlers and canners that is passed through eventually to […]
The Trump-Inspired Tax Return Bill is Going to Court
The Supreme Court of California ordered the Secretary of State to show cause why the emergency writ of mandate to block SB 27 requested by the California Republican Party (CRP) and its chair Jessica Patterson should not be granted. The court asked attorneys from both sides to brief on a 1972 ballot measure, which added […]
A Small Business Success, and Some Reasons it Ended
(Editor’s Note: Robin Salzer, who has contributed to this page in the past, closed his popular restaurant, Robin’s Wood Fire BBQ last weekend after 37 years in Pasadena. In an interview with the Pasadena Independent’s Terry Miller, Salzer had some things to say about his small business frustrations with government. Excerpts from the interview appear […]
As Gun Control Efforts Advance in California Capitol, Opponents Bank on the Courts
Brian Jones may be a California state senator, but as a Republican with an expansive view of the Second Amendment, he’s all but given up hope of holding back the wave of gun-control bills advancing in the Democratic-dominated Legislature. Instead, like many like-minded advocates, he’s taking the fight to a more hospitable venue: the federal […]