Fire and Blackouts: How Does Government Respond?
With the devastating fires and difficult widespread blackouts plaguing California the state’s investor owned utilities are in a world of trouble. No solution will be easy to the projected decade of darkness offered by the head of Pacific Gas & Electric before the problem is fixed. He won’t have that long. The governor and legislature […]
California is Still a Republican State
Did da Vinci spray graffiti over the Mona Lisa? Did Hitchcock destroy reels of Vertigo? Of course not. So why are Republicans waging war against California, their party’s greatest masterpiece? For all the denunciations of California as Democratic bastion, the larger, historic truth is exactly the opposite: Modern California is in almost all respects the […]
Is it time for a change in how Los Angeles is managed and governed?
Is it time to change the form of government in the City of Los Angeles? Or do we continue to let the City of L A fall farther into the HOLE of DECAY and DARKNESS with increasing Homeless living in tents on city sidewalks and in cars in our neighborhoods; massive traffic congestion on our […]
Second chance for major ruling on pension cuts
A case that could result in the state Supreme Court reviewing the California Rule, which has overturned several voter-approved public pension cuts, is fully briefed and ready to be scheduled for oral arguments. As record-high pension costs take a growing bite out of government budgets, causing tax hikes and cuts in staff and services for […]