Time to Get Back to a Better “California Adventure”
Imagine a California theme park like Disney’s California Adventure based on the state’s current predicaments. Unlike the adventure park in Anaheim themed after the history and culture of the Golden State, a California adventure park for today would be a dystopian place of fires, Covid disease and deaths, closed schools, overwhelming homelessness and near economic […]
Newsom promotes California to be the Vintage Car Capital
We have all seen the photos from Cuba with all their vintage cars from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Well, those photos from Cuba may be a prelude to what California will look like in the decades ahead. The Governor has convinced himself that the devastating forest fires in the state are a direct result […]
Rebuilding the Small Business Economy in California
(Latest in a series since March on the pandemic’s employment impacts, and rebuilding America’s job base. The previous ones are here.) The small business economy in California continues to deteriorate rapidly. Small business revenue in California was down 7.2% from January 2020 to early July. In the latest August data, revenue is now down more than 15.9%. The number […]
Switzerland Considers 5 Ballot Measures Too Many; California Sees 12 Statewide Measures as Too Few
If you want to know why Swiss direct democracy is better than the California version, you couldn’t find any better evidence than the respective fall ballots. In particular, a comparison of the two ballot shows the Swiss taking their roles as legislators seriously—and thus demonstrating how silly we Californians are in discharging our duties in […]