Increasingly, city governments are becoming the last resort for resisting policies adopted by elected state officials and appointed functionaries who assume authority normally reserved for votes of the people. The …
“The business of America is business,” President Calvin Coolidge famously observed in 1925. Plenty of other American cliches support his view: “Money talks, and (other stuff) walks,” goes one. “Show …
Gov. Gavin Newsom is a big advocate of science — the concept, not the magazine. He’s often said science was behind his many controversial moves to counter COVID-19, and he’s …
Two things you can count on with ballyhooed state forecasts on issues such as California’s housing and population are that they’ll be incompetent and inconsistent. Usually, they’ll also be outdated …
In a time of massive criticism of its business climate from inside and outside the state, California steadily continues its many policies of corporate largesse — big handouts to private …
If any California news media had actually covered these two strongly-related stories, it would have been difficult to avoid seeing the irony in them. On the same July day that …
There’s been extensive news coverage of state government attempts to require dense new housing construction in cities across California. However, less attention is given to efforts to compel Californians to …
The results of recent polling in the ongoing race for the U.S. Senate seat now occupied by veteran Democrat Dianne Feinstein were startling — but eminently predictable. As early as …