May, 2010Green-job future a fraudMonday, May 31st, 2010 JUNE 1, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, at 12.6 percent. That’s 2.7 percentage points above the national average. The persistence of unemployment also is something Californians haven't seen since the Great Depression. The May 30 Sacram... CA budget tops sensible limitsThursday, May 27th, 2010 MAY 27, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Budget time. So I thought I would revisit an analytical tool I devised a few years ago to help better understand the California state budget. Back in the early 2000s, I was pouring over state government budget documents and noticed something peculiar: wheneve... Cal Jobs Gap widens in 2010Monday, May 24th, 2010 MAY 24, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Instead of bashing one another for past liberal postures, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner should be talking about the California Jobs Gap. Jerry Brown should be, too. There’s no more important issue today, especially with the primary election now just two weeks a... Tea Party time in California?Thursday, May 20th, 2010 MAY 20, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Normally a trendsetter, California might be a laggard in following the political revolutions back east. On Tuesday, the Establishment of both parties took a beating from voters upset at the most dysfunctional government most Americans have lived under. In Ken... Global warming war heats upMonday, May 17th, 2010 MAY 17, 2010 By DAVE ROBERTS If the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, more commonly known as AB32 for its Assembly bill number, gets put on hold by state voters this November, it may be due in part to two professors who dared to take on the state bureaucratic establishment b... Doomed pension reformWednesday, May 12th, 2010 MAY 12, 2010 By STEVEN GREENHUT “One cannot be both a progressive and be opposed to pension reform,” argued Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s top pension advisor, David Crane, during a pension-reform hearing on Monday. “The math is irrefutable that the losers from excessive and unfunded... AB32 driving higher energy costsTuesday, May 11th, 2010 MAY 11, 2010 By SUSAN M. TRAGER May 3 saw 807,946 signatures submitted to the California Secretary of State to qualify for the November ballot the California Jobs Initiative. If approved by voters, it would suspend AB32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, until unemployment in Calif... CARB’s punitive approachTuesday, May 4th, 2010 MAY 7, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Failing to file a report. That’s it. That’s all Nor-Cal Produce in West Sacramento did. And in late March it cost the small, family-run fruit and vegetable wholesaler $32,550. “The California Air Resources Board [CARB] last month came to terms with... Draconian water plan unveiledMonday, May 3rd, 2010 MAY 3, 2010 By SUSAN M. TRAGER Water is the lifeblood of California. Throughout the state’s history, it has formed the core of political and economic battles. It is actually more important than gold, a commodity that can be mined elsewhere. But California’s water can only be obtained in th... |