Why Doesn’t Mighty California Produce More Presidential Nominees?
Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign woes have been chronicled extensively the last few days from Scott Lay’s column on this site to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. It’s beginning to look like another presidential election will pass by without a Californian heading a major party ticket. For arguably the most influential state in […]
Call to Action for Business: Keep Investing in OC
Orange County is an economic powerhouse. With the recent release of the 2019-20 OC Community Indicators, the facts are in: 3% unemployment–well below state and national levels–5th most educated county in the US, 2nd largest workforce in California, and 4th largest international population in the nation. Yet when the perception persists that we’re suburbia, note […]
Collect Your Signatures in the Temple
As direct democracy expands around the world, finding public space to collect signatures on referendum or initiative petitions has become a global challenge. Sometimes it’s quite hard. Here in California, local governments and corporations often use harassment or litigation to keep petition circulators away from places they should have the right to be. But Taiwan, […]
Surprise Medical Billing – And How Congress Should Stop It
There are good surprises and bad surprises. Surprise medical bills are without a doubt the bad kind. They come most often after a patient receives care at an in-network hospital only to be treated without their knowledge by an out of network physician. The patient’s insurer and provider try to work out a price, and […]