Hollywood Shakes
To learn about an earthquake fault underneath you in Hollywood, you can ask a land developer, a city planner or a state geologist who has spent a career studying the subject. You’ll get a somewhat different answer from each one, illustrating the confusion that has helped make regulating land development in Los Angeles such a […]
State Education Funding Driven by Politics Not Children’s Needs
When it comes to education funding this year you need to know that it’s not about the children. It’s about politics. Nothing proves that more than the recent proposal by Governor Newsom’s Department of Finance (DOF) that would deny students who want to attend personalized learning public charter schools the same funding that students attending […]
Dairies forced to subsidize their competitors, wait, what?!
Through a quirk in California agriculture policy, some dairy owners, like the three of us, are forced to subsidize other dairies for no reason other than that is the way it has always been. Each month, some of us are required to give approximately $16 million collectively to our competitors, who are known as “quota” […]
Yes, it’s Difficult to Run a Business
Most of us know the routine as an employee. You wake up, clock in for work, take your required rest and meal breaks, go back to work, clock out for the day, and then go home just to get ready to do it all over again. Some band even wrote a song about it. For […]