Author: George Plescia

In 2010, I supported Proposition25 which was sold to the voters as a way to make Legislators accountable for passing a balanced budget.  Prop 25

Triage is defined as the process of determining the priority of patients’ treatments based on the severity of their condition.  Unfortunately for taxpayers in California,

Picture this: an entrepreneur wants to open a yogurt shop.  She has a business plan, has secured the operating capital and has a location picked

Increasingly, we live in an age of all-or-nothing politics.  Too often, lines are drawn in the sand as rigid ideological positions deny real opportunities for

Some have written on these pages against placing a proposed water bond on this November’s ballot. But any Republican interested in fostering and strengthening our state’s economy, business climate, and the quality of our drinking water needs to join me and place a comprehensive bond on this November’s ballot.

The bottom line is that our water crisis is real, and we need to get real about addressing it.

Even in the face of a daunting deficit, we can’t afford NOT to act on our water crisis immediately. Failure to act now could turn a crisis into a catastrophe. What are big problems today could become catastrophes tomorrow.

Water shortages have already forced farmers to let thousands of acres of crops die, resulting in millions in economic damages, thousands of lost jobs and less California-grown food that fuels our economy and feeds our families.