Can Californians afford California? How to flatten the cost curve
Yesterday I wrote of the persistent paradox in California: a state enjoying great economic success suffering depopulation by middle class and working residents. Today I identify some of the key affordability issues and how elected officials can address them. Housing California’s infamous housing crisis lies at the center of much of the state’s ills, from […]
March 3 Is California’s Chinatown Election
The Americans are not going to give us credit for taking our time. The deluge of anger against Iowa’s Democrats, for taking a full day to report the caucus results there, fills me with dread as a Californian. Because our primary results are going to take an awful long time—weeks literally–to be finalized. And that means Democrats […]
Iowans May Have Influenced the California Primary
Mike Bloomberg, the ex-Mayor of New York, is busy introducing himself to California voters. He may have gotten a big lift—not from welcoming Californians who barely know him—but from Iowans. A major and still yet to be explained smart phone application has thrown the Caucus results into total turmoil in what has since 1972 given […]