InfrastructureBudget ‘transparency’ murky in SenateThursday, June 13th, 2013 June 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO -- I watched in dismay as Senate Democrats voted yesterday to bypass proper procedure in order to play politics with the budget. They withdrew several of their budget bills from the Rules Committee, to send them directly to the Senate Floor. This ... Gov. Jerry Brown’s father complexWednesday, June 5th, 2013 June 5, 2013 By John Seiler Calling Dr. Freud. Gov. Jerry Brown's relationship with his later father, Gov. Pat Brown, is complex. It's so complex it's a father complex. Our colleague Steven Greenhut writes about it on Bloomberg, "Who Will Pay for Jerry Brown' Father Complex?" It's full spe... Special problems for high-speed railFriday, May 31st, 2013May 31, 2013 By John Seiler The Mercury-News reported today: "SACRAMENTO -- High-speed rail officials acknowledged Thursday that they almost certainly won't break ground on the $69 billion project as planned in July after hitting some last-minute bumps in the road. And even more delays are po... Tesla just a tax-funded government projectSunday, May 26th, 2013May 26, 2013 By John Seiler I've seen a couple of Tesla cars tooling around Orange County. They're neat, as we said in the 1960s. And they're made in California. They also survived where other electric car companies, such as Fisker, have crashed. The problem with the Tesla and all these car... Shake, rattle and roll in Nor CalThursday, May 23rd, 2013 May 23, 2013 By Katy Grimes Earthquake! Tonight in Sacramento, we felt the rumblings of a 5.7 earthquake centered in in Greenville, CA, in Plumas County -- 300 miles from Sacramento. This is considered a moderate earthquake. So far, there have been 13 small aftershocks reported. This... Bridge debacle foreshadows bullet train mega-debacleWednesday, May 22nd, 2013 May 22, 2013 By Chris Reed Mankind has been building bridges for more than 3,000 years. A bridge built in the 13th century BC in Greece is still in use. Building durable bridges over water is not a modern accomplishment. The Roman Empire liked to build simple arch bridges over rivers and pu... TX soaring way above CA in energy productionMonday, May 6th, 2013 May 6, 2013 By John Seiler The California fantasy is that energy magically will flow in abundance from windmills and solar panels, even when there's no wind and at night. The reality is that it's old-fashioned "fossil" fuels that will continue to generate almost all our power for the next c... Feinstein, Boxer stymie water, power & wildlife for Lake McClureSaturday, May 4th, 2013 May 4, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi New York Times journalist Peter Passell once wrote: “California’s water system might have been invented by a Soviet bureaucrat on an LSD trip.” And as the 1960s hippies would have put it, the trip would have been a bummer. San Joaquin Valley farmers must ... |