When I saw the headline: “Labor unions are paying to help California’s lieutenant governor decorate her office,” I nearly spit out my coffee. It turns out Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis raised ...

Matt Fong could throw a snowball with accuracy. I know. I was on the receiving end of a couple of sharply tossed snowballs sliding down a hill in Big Bear when our families got together years ago.

Last week’s announcement that automaker Tesla Motors plans to put more than 1,000 California workers back on the assembly lines at the NUMMI plant is yet another indicator that the clean tech industry ...

It may come as a surprise to many but according to many public documents, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Before someone goes suggesting this is some sort of public relations spin on ...

Nearly anyone who has watched Governor Gavin Newsom would agree he’s a good public speaker. He often talks about California’s great economy and diversity, and eloquently conveys the bold ideas he ...

As Democrats struggle over the direction of their party, Gov. Gavin Newsom may have highlighted a slogan that can bridge not only intra-party differences but also find acceptance in a broader populist ...

Zev Yaroslavsky, former LA County Supervisor and former LA City Councilmember, astutely noted that state senator Scott Wiener’s SB827, which would take away local zoning authority from cities and ...

For four decades, Proposition 13, the property tax reform that passed in 1978, has been blamed for many of the ills that have befallen California. Working with Howard Jarvis, a Proposition 13 ...

The high-profile debate over a bill to change the standard for police use of force has obscured another important bill, to affirm civilian control over county sheriffs and their departments. There is ...

Clausewitz famously said war was “politics by other means.” In California, politics is water wars by other means. Although it isn’t always above the surface, below the surface everything in the state ...

(Latest in a series since March on the pandemic’s employment impacts, and rebuilding America’s job base. The previous ones are here.) What unites all of these measures, of course, is they have nothing ...

Those marketing the green delusion have convinced themselves and the public that intermittent electricity from wind and solar are somehow “clean, green, renewable and sustainable”. They have ...