Yeah for Yee
It’s tough during times of the typical contentious political give and take for a recognizable member of a political party to make a stand that faithful party members think adverse to the party’s interest. It’s even more difficult in these polarizing times. Yet, State Controller Betty Yee, a Democrat, told fellow Democrat Secretary of State […]
Reading the Props: 20’s New Supermajority
Every two years, I read the full text of all statewide ballot propositions—because at least one Californian should. Next is Prop 20. Prop 20 offers voters a chance to revisit reforms of sentencing and criminal supervision laws passed in the first half of the 2010s decade. Usually, going back and reconsidering previous laws is […]
The United Chambers of Commerce Says No on Proposition 15
The United Chambers of Commerce opposed the Split-Roll initiative when it was presented at the Government Affairs meeting last spring. Now that it is a formal ballot issue as Proposition 15, our opposition is still intact. Why? Proponents of Proposition 15, the property tax increase on businesses, say this new tax money could be used […]
An “ecotopian” Future: Can California’s Green Extremism Go National?
They paved paradise…And put up a parking lot…With a pink hotel, a boutique…And a swinging hot spot…Don’t it always seem to go…That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone — Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi,” 1970 One is often at a loss to explain California to people from other planets—like, say, earth. This […]