Did Ballot Harvesting Impact March 3 Bond and Tax Proposals?
According to the current elections code, mailed in ballots are counted as long as they are postmarked by election day, and arrive up to three days later. In practice, this translates into final results in close elections being delayed for several weeks. California’s election code also permits so-called “ballot harvesting,” which is alleged to swing […]
A New Crisis Rages On Top of the Pandemic
We are once again grappling with national outrage as well as lamentable and inexcusable violence ignited by the video-captured killing of a black man in Minneapolis over the passing of a $20 bad check. In Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland Sacramento and cities across the nation, black, brown, white people, young […]
Fixing the Business-to-Business Exemption in AB 5
Last year’s AB 5 (Gonzalez) codified and expanded the reach of the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision. One of the categories of exemptions to the ABC Test set forth in AB 5 is for bona fide business-to-business contracting relationships. As can be seen below in the law’s actual language, this exemption is actually quite difficult […]
California Kids, Use Your Power
Dear California Kids, Don’t let us adults destroy your futures! This moment gives you unprecedented power to fix what’s wrong with how California treats kids. I am begging you to use it. Before COVID-19, California was shortchanging its 9.1 million children in education and health. Now in crisis, the state’s adults are conspiring to make […]
L.A. Program May Violate Privacy
Whether it’s the 405 Freeway from the San Fernando Valley past LAX continuing down to Long Beach, the 5 Freeway through Burbank and into the heart of Los Angeles, or any other traffic corridor connecting the Valley to the surrounding centers of commerce, normally you’re guaranteed to face some of the worst traffic congestion in […]
Will Protests and Riots Bring Change?
For the third time in a span of 55 years, major confrontations with the police have turned violent and ruinous in Los Angeles. In the previous instances, state and city governments created commissions to get to the riots’ root causes and to offer recommendations for change so that similar instances would never happen again. But […]
State Can Continue Stopping Tax Fraud Without Deputizing Private Lawyers
California tax agencies are known for aggressive enforcement of tax laws, so it was surprising when two state officials recently claimed government tax collectors aren’t up to the job, and more profit-seeking private lawyers should be allowed to jump into the tax-enforcement business. That was the message in an event by Attorney General Xavier Becerra […]
Now Is Time for State to Be Flexible
I don’t think any of us truly believed we would be living through this unimaginable time. As the weeks and months continue to pass us by, we are given time to reflect and time to think about how we will move forward. The business community has been hit incredibly hard by the economic impacts of […]
It’s time for California to follow Mexico and pull the plug on Renewables
The only things ‘inevitable’ about the ‘transition’ to wind and solar are rocketing electricity prices and unstable power grids. Recognizing that industrial wind and solar electricity bring little to no value to electrical grids, Mexico is moving to avoid the higher electrical prices experienced by Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, South Australia, California, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and […]
Bridging the Gap Between Police and Minority Communities
Demonstrators closed a Los Angeles freeway in protest over yet another high-profile death of an African American man, George Floyd, in police custody, this time in Minneapolis. In that city, protests exploded into violence the last two days. Police chiefs from across the country criticized the Minneapolis police action saying it pushes back progress made […]