For Economic Recovery, Protecting Our Ports is Essential
“Essential” is a very important word in public policy these days. “Essential” signifies a job or industry sector that must continue despite health and safety risks. Essential workers impact every resident in some manner: the health care worker that serves the community, the police and firefighters that continue to keep neighborhoods safe, and the truck […]
Give Me an “A” for Flunking California Distance Learning
I’m doing my duty as a California parent. I’m flunking distance learning. Because failure isn’t just an option when you must become your children’s teacher during the worst pandemic in a century. Failure is the goal. Imagine the educational carnage if distance learning didn’t fail! If parents proved better instructors than teachers, how could unions […]
Business Leaders to the Governor: Time to Flatten the Unemployment Curve
As Governor Gavin Newsom was offering guidelines that allows businesses to begin opening their doors, many business leaders sent the governor recommendations on how to quickly but safely get the California economy humming again. Some of the policy proposals are controversial and run headlong into positions held by labor unions but the recommendations are designed […]
Gavin’s, Legislature’s Poor Housing Record
“If elected, I pledge to lead the effort to develop 3.5 million new housing units by 2025 to address the state’s affordability crisis.” That was candidate for governor Gavin Newsom’s promise to the California electorate in 2018 when he was running for the state’s office of chief executive. As we know, Newsom was elected – […]
California just revealed a $54.3 billion deficit — signaling deep cuts ahead
California finance officials revealed a $54.3 billion deficit today in the first economic assessment of the coronavirus pandemic’s devastating blow to the fifth-largest economy in the world. That figure is higher than the deficit during the Great Recession and obliterates the state’s once-healthy reserves. Without sugar-coating how hard the prolonged shutdown of businesses and job […]
Impatient With the Lockdown
People are getting restless and compliance with directives given by elected officials are wearing thin on law-abiding members of a once FREE and Liberated American Society. We have all witnessed the recent changing attitudes of our family members, neighbors and friends. The attitude that Enough is Enough with the government lockdown that makes us all […]
Newsom, Biden, and the poor
Bill and Sherry explore whether Gov. Gavin Newsom is caving in to rebels against his shelter-at-home policy. The podcasters disagree over Joe Biden’s campaign strategy. Sherry favors Biden laying back, a version of the great heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali’s rope-a-dope, where he waited against the ropes until his opponent punched himself into exhaustion. […]
Who Has the Post Pandemic Advantage in Policy Debates?
When the usual debates pick up as the coronavirus crisis eases, will one side in the endless tugs-of-war that roil policy arguments have a new advantage? It may depend on the battleground—Washington or Sacramento. Public employees who went to work in the heart of the crisis–first responders, health care workers–will they get more respect and […]
Governor’s Executive Order on Worker’s Comp Makes It More Difficult to do Business in CA
We fully understand why the Governor wants to help Californians impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. But, creating a rebuttable presumption shifts the burden to businesses who are struggling to keep their workers employed while also keeping their doors open. The Governor’s Executive Order opens up employers to significant abuse from employees. What’s to stop an […]