CEOs and Business Leaders for Prevailing Wage? The Truth about SB 7
I am a bottom line, hard-nosed, results oriented, fiscally conservative CEO. And I represent hundreds of business leaders with the same profile. And what do we all have in common? We all support prevailing wages as a way of building California infrastructure. Prevailing wage laws provide a stable platform for attracting and retaining professional construction […]
CARB Errors Sad Symbol of California
The accounting errors, omissions and misdeeds of the California Air Resources Board are the truest symbol of where California’s government stands today.
Our state’s government lacks leadership, truth, transparency and accountability. Everywhere we look in Sacramento these virtues are in desperately short supply After months of battling the many transgressions of the California Air Resources Board, the deal reached between industry and CARB seems to indicate that honesty and facts can and does still have a place in government decision making – but only when the stakeholders are prepared to fight tooth and nail for it.
As CEO of an organization representing hundreds of California contractors subject to CARB regulations, we watched in wonder and awe as zeal replaced science while billions of dollars were spent, perhaps in vain. Again and again, our industry’s reward for attempting to insert a voice of reason was rewarded with the label of obstructionist and abusers of the environment and public health.