Six Curious Takeaways from California’s Small Business Loans
Organic farms, the governor’s winery group, a scooter startup and … Burning Man? The new list of California recipients of federal Paycheck Protection Program loans to ease economic fallout from the coronavirus is long, varied and sometimes bizarre. The Small Business Administration effort “to provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers […]
California and the Need for “Order”
In the current political environment, the phrase “law and order” has been entangled with the President Donald Trump’s campaign to clamp down on protestors and its implied racial overtones. But focusing on the second half of the equation, “order,” and what it represents, is becoming a problem for Governor Gavin Newsom and California authorities when […]
Before Calexit, A Final Push to Fix America
“Go to my website or use the hashtag #LetsGetTheCalOuttaHere!” shouts Gwyneth Paltrow in the Netflix series The Politician. Running for governor on a platform of leading California’s secession from the United States, Paltrow’s character wins 98 percent of the vote. This may be fiction, but California independence, is gaining cultural currency and real-world urgency. Our […]
Newsom now owns the COVID-19 pandemic
Just a few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom was boasting about California’s apparent success in suppressing COVID-19 infections in implicit contrast to other states, such as New York, that were being clobbered by the pandemic. He called it “bending the curve” of the infection rate and decided to reopen vast sections of the economy that […]
Newsom, Trump, Roberts: Politics and Policy
Did Gov. Gavin Newsom dig himself into a hole by first embracing strong enforcement of coronavirus regulations, then easing up, and finally reversing himself? We examine the twists and turns of the governor’s decision making. We also wonder whether President Donald Trump has dug himself into an even deeper hole with his promise that the […]
Celebrate Safely!
The editors at Fox and Hounds Daily wish you a safe and joyous celebration this holiday weekend. We will resume or regular postings on Monday, July 6th.
Environmentalists Seek a Full Repeal of Proposition 13
California businesses operate under some of the strictest clean air standards in the world, and these regulated businesses have largely continued their operations here thanks to Proposition 13 – the reform measure that provides certainty and affordability in property taxes. Unfortunately, environmentalists recently announced support for a November ballot measure that would repeal property tax […]
Who Does Gavin Pick if Kamala Leaves?
The political parlor game of guessing who Gov. Gavin Newsom might choose to replace Kamala Harris in the US Senate if she becomes Vice President of the United States is heating up. Many oddsmakers have California’s junior senator as leading the pack as Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick. With Biden currently enjoying a double digit […]
More on homelessness
The following story is comes from Christopher F. Rufo, of the Discovery Institute Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality. Chris has been and continues to be a valuable resource on my commentaries about homelessness in America. In recent years, discussion about homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The […]