April 29, 2013 By Joseph Perkins After giving a speech in which he refused to bail out New York City from impending bankruptcy, Gerald Ford prompted the famously pithy headline in the New York Daily News: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. The Los Angeles City Council this week did not exactly te...
Posts Tagged ‘Joseph Perkins’LA council attack on San Onofre might bring blackouts to Orange County, San DiegoMonday, April 29th, 2013CARB chair plugs electric carsWednesday, April 17th, 2013 April 17, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Mary Nichols was in Detroit this week for the Society of Automotive Engineers annual World Congress. The chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board told attendees that her agency wants to have better relations with the auto industry. “If we can colla... Anti-nuke activists aim at San OnofreWednesday, April 3rd, 2013April 3, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Southern California Edison meets today with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It hopes to persuade the feds to approve its proposed license amendment for San Onofre nuclear plant, which has been offline since January 2012 because of certain wear and tear on it... Class warfare hits CA K-12 educationWednesday, March 27th, 2013March 27, 2013 By Joseph Perkins “Class warfare applied to schools.” That’s how pollster Dave Kanevsky describes the plan by Gov. Jerry Brown to change the way public school funding is allocated to divert money from the state’s middle-class and upper-income children to low-income child... Cracking down on ADA lawsuit abuseTuesday, March 19th, 2013 March 19, 2013 By Joseph Perkins I was a White House staff member when George H.W. Bush was in the Oval Office. I remember well when he signed the Americans With Disabilities Act into law, insisting that it would not “lead endlessly to litigation.” Not in his wildest nightmares did Bush... How not to help domestic workersThursday, March 14th, 2013 March 14, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Rosa Sanchez marched outside the State Building in Los Angeles last week, banging her pots and pans. She was one of a hundred or so domestic workers voicing their support for the so-called Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D... Big Milk and Big Cheese start food fightFriday, March 1st, 2013 March 1, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, knows a thing of two about health care. That’s why it is understandable the Sacramento Democrat was appointed chairman of the Assembly Health Committee. But Pan doesn’t know much about agriculture, particularly the vagarie... Democrats addicted to tax increasesMonday, February 25th, 2013 Feb. 25, 2013 By Joseph Perkins You’ve heard the familiar fable about the scorpion and the frog? They meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on his back. The frog asks: “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion replies: “Because if I... Declare war on lawsuit abuseTuesday, February 12th, 2013Feb. 12, 2013 By Joseph Perkins Inmate lawsuits have become a cottage industry here in California. The Associated Press reports that such litigation has cost the state’s taxpayers more than $200 million over the past 15 years. Gov. Jerry Brown suggests that much of that litigation is friv... Disinvest in higher educationTuesday, February 5th, 2013 Feb. 5, 2013 By Joseph Perkins College is overrated. That’s the ineluctable conclusion to be drawn from a new study published by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The study’s co-authors, Richard Vedder, Jonathan Robe and Christopher Denhart, examined employment data... |