Author: Charles Crumpley

CEQA’s Union Shop of Horrors

If you operate a business in California, you’ve probably heard of CEQA horror stories – about how it delays construction projects and makes them far

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A Jolt of Higher Rates

Electricity and other energy rates in California are going up. That much we know. How much are they going up? Ahh, that’s what we don’t

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Solar Costs Not So Hot

You may have seen the spoof ad on the Internet in which a well-dressed, middle-age white man plays an executive. “Here at Southern California Edison,”

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Too Many Dumbbells?

Santa Monica has gotten all exercised about fitness classes in public parks. The City Council there hates them, thinks there are too many and now

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Higher Ed’s Expensive Lessons

Who’s guilty of the most egregious price gouging? In my opinion, it’s colleges and universities. Tuition and other costs at many public and private schools

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Zapped by Electric Car Buzz

It was unsurprising to read the article in the Los Angeles Business Journal a couple of weeks ago about how L.A.’s Coda Automotive had brought

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See You in 15 Years?

L.A.’s business community can take this bit of solace from last week’s primary election for mayor: Both candidates who are advancing to the general election

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Tax Opposition Crosses Aisle

Maybe the most difficult task in America is to achieve bipartisan agreement. But California’s Franchise Tax Board appears to have pulled it off. Democrats and

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A Case Where Justice Was Blind

Whew, that was close. We almost – almost! – had a frightening situation in which one company could have achieved world market domination in Post-it

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