Medi-Cal providers justly get a pay boost (for now), Earned Income Tax Credit expansion hopefully will incentivize work, but taxpayer protections at the Board of Equalization and electoral fairness ...

Amazon’s competition for a massive second headquarters has launched a number of bids from California. Will the state’s reputation as being difficult for business work against the cities and regions ...

The stakes for the first Presidential debate on September 26 couldn’t be higher. On paper, it looks like advantage Clinton on the basis of her mastery of the issues and debate experience. The Clinton ...

The question of recalling Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky over his sentencing decision for Stanford student Brock Turner in the notorious campus rape case has policy and political implications that ...

Supporters of a split roll property tax smell opportunity in the federal tax bill. They are polling to see if the split roll can be advanced as an answer to tax deductibility changes under the ...

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 ...

California is fortunate to be the home to the most productive regions in the world for manufacturing and goods movement. According to 2018 statistics, California manufacturers lead the nation in ...

Since intermittent electricity from wind and solar cannot provide continuous uninterruptable electricity, the state continues to rely on the Southwest and Northwest states for its power, and continues ...

A new way of life has come to America and Los Angeles. It is caused by the Coronavirus. It has devastated countless lives and restricted our Freedoms and Liberties and our Pursuit of Happiness. All of ...

Even before Covid-19, many Californians were struggling with the high cost of living here. The long-time willingness of many Californians to pay the “sunshine tax” premium for living in a state with ...

(Part of a series on the impacts of the coronavirus on employment and the workplace. The previous ones are here.) The phrase “Appointment in Samarra” is usually associated with the 1934 novel of that ...