Prioritize Spending Newsom Warns with Vetoes
Gavin Newsom likes to use the power of government to manage life in California but when it comes to paying for the way government directs those changes he offered a dose of reality when he rejected a number of legislative bills that required money. Newsom wrote over and over in his veto messages that the […]
The 2019 California Legislative Session in Review
With the recently concluded 2019 California Legislative Session, I thought I would look back at the highlights and compare them to the last Legislative Session as a reference point, especially in light of the Democratic supermajority in both houses of the Legislature and Governor Newsom replacing Governor Brown after eight years. Bills Introduced in the […]
Did Donald Trump Win an Election for President of the World?
At the recent Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, Sam Chang, who leads the Negative Vote Association, conducted an experiment. How does having the ability to vote no change an election outcome? Sam is both Taiwanese and American. He lives in Taipei but is pursuing his idea, of the negative vote, via ballot measures in […]
California’s Inconvenient Imported Oil Dilemma
The U.S. is the top oil and natural gas producer in the world, and in five years could be the number one exporter in the world creating millions of jobs, and trillions in economic benefits. Texas is so prolific at exploration and production (E&P) they are the number three producers in the world. After the […]
September Jobs Report Indicates a Need to Continue to Support Today’s IT and Manufacturing Workforce
The September Jobs Report noted that the unemployment rate fell to 3.5% and in September alone, 136,000 new jobs were added, a total of over six million jobs since January 2017. This rapid job creation growth requires a creative approach to training a workforce to fill newly created jobs. Just a day before the Jobs […]