A Few Good Questions for the Next Democratic Debate
The Democratic National Committee has announced that UCLA will host the sixth Democratic debate in California in December. Given California’s outsized role in the Democratic Party, the candidates should be asked questions unique to our state. A good question to start with would be: Why is California, the most liberal and most Democratic of the […]
Thank you, PG&E!
I write this thank-you note because no corporation has done more than you to awaken the public to the challenges California faces, and it’s high time we acknowledged the enormity of your civic contribution. Thank you, first, for your transparency. While some rage at you for shutting off power to millions, I marveled at how […]
The California exodus is real
Not unlike the Hebrews departing Egypt and the Okies exiting the dust and famine of the 1930’s Midwest the number of Californians getting the heck out of Dodge so-to-speak is staggering. In just one decade about 5 million Californians left between 2004 and 2013. Roughly 3.9 million people came here from other states during that […]
The Cost of Education
Everyone knows housing costs are a problem for middle-class Californians but also troublesome are education costs. Recently the New York Times profiled a San Francisco couple earning $150,000 per year who just had a baby. If San Francisco’s public schools aren’t acceptable to them when their baby is ready to start school, the couple — […]