APRIL 30, 2010 Is it possible that the push for high speed rail in California could be slowing down? Recent economic troubles notwithstanding, it seemed that everyone, from the lowly citizen to the lowlier legislator, wanted a fleet of high-speed trains to shoot up and down the state at 200-plus ...
April, 2010High speed rail slows downFriday, April 30th, 2010Irresponsible boycott bandwagonFriday, April 30th, 2010APRIL 30, 2010 The recent spate of political leaders in California calling for financial sanctions and boycotts of Arizona businesses, is irresponsible and demonstrates that none of them truly care about the people hurt along the way. I am not just talking about the business owners, although t... Get in line, take a numberMonday, April 26th, 2010APRIL 26, 2010 I've experienced several months where, for one reason or another, I've been stuck wrestling with various bureaucracies, of the governmental and corporate variety. It's a frustrating, time-consuming and, ultimately, dehumanizing process. You're always a number. Most everyone at the ... Inhaling CARB’s Hot AirThursday, April 22nd, 2010APRIL 22, 2010 On Thursday, it was hard to tell what was stranger: The man walking around the first floor of the Cal/EPA headquarters in Sacramento covered in about 500 plastic shopping bags or the California Air Resources Board (CARB) hearing going on one flight up. Of the two, Shopping Bag Man ... Snake Oil LegislatorsWednesday, April 21st, 2010APRIL 21, 2010 Nearly every person I talk to is either feeling the crush of the bad economy or knows people who are really suffering. Which leads me to believe that most California legislators don’t run in the same circles that I do. Most of the folks that I know are small business owners, entr... A plea to liberals for pension reformSunday, April 18th, 2010APRIL 19, 2010 You know the pension tsunami is getting close to the shore when the mainstream media are filled with hard-hitting stories about the coming crisis, such as the front-page Sacramento Bee and Fresno Bee article last Sunday documenting the way huge pension costs for retired public empl... Ronald Reagan, tax hikerThursday, April 15th, 2010APRIL 15, 2010 It’s Tax Day, so I decided to dedicate this space to celebrate California’s greatest tax and spend governor. The one who, more than any of the other 38 men who’ve run the state, hit residents with bigger taxes and grew government more than any other. Yes, I’m talking abo... Pension crater bigger than thoughtMonday, April 12th, 2010APRIL 12, 2010 A new report from Stanford University's well-respected economic policy institute has revealed that those of us who have been warning about California's severely underfunded public employee retirement systems have, quite frankly, been wrong. We have been understating the scope of... Entire state government is brokenThursday, April 8th, 2010APRIL 9, 2010 “Democracy,” H.L. Mencken told us, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” I was thinking of this little slice of Mencken wisdom while reading an unintentionally hilarious April 7 LA Times blog post. “Californi... Moonbeam is as Moonbeam doesMonday, April 5th, 2010APRIL 5, 2010 Now that Attorney General Jerry Brown has officially announced his candidacy for governor, we're getting to re-live some California political history as pundits and reporters think back to Brown's first stint as governor along with some of the entertaining facets of his long and biz... |