Spain’s High-Speed Boondoggle
John Seiler: Spain also has wasted money on a high-speed rail boondoggle, one they actually built. The Bee ran an article on it that tried to make the Iberian choo-choo sound better than it is. But the facts still were
Read MoreBrown: Botch Housing Even More
John Seiler: The housing crisis of recent years was caused by the government itself. The Federal Reserve Board — a quasi-private bank whose directors are appointed by the president — has debased the dollar while keeping interest rates artificially low.
Read MoreMarket, Not Govt., Builds Cheaper Housing
JAN. 17, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Is the demise of redevelopment hurting the poor? El Monte Mayor Andre Quintero says it is. He’s bemoaning that, when Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature killed redevelopment, the source of funds for affordable
Read MoreBureaucratic Octopus Grabs Bay Area
JAN. 16, 2012 By DAVE ROBERTS Like a giant octopus grabbing helpless humans in a horror movie, a new bureaucracy is squeezing the Bay Area. One Bay Area is a plan to push Bay Area residents out of their cars
Read MoreDelta Council Meetings Flood State
JAN. 13, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Is the Delta Stewardship Council: A bunch of environmentalists appointed by politicians to produce endless numbers of useless plans to restore the Sacred Delta Ecology; A group of water agencies serving the thirsty cities
Read MoreA Stake Through the Heart of Rail
Katy Grimes: Apparently tired of all of the talk and stories around the capitol and throughout the state about the need to end the money-sucking High-Speed Rail system, Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, plans on driving a wooden stake through
Read MoreGlobal Warming Proved a Fake
John Seiler: New research proves global warming a fake. If this state had any sense, it would repeal Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. It forces the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which
Read MoreDelta Science Remains in Question
JAN. 6, 2011 A federal judge opened up a can of whoop ass last fall on two government biologists, accusing them of mendacity in making their case for stricter environmental regulations in the Delta. This week, a report by a
Read MoreSupreme Court Rebukes Crony Capitalism
The following first appeared in City Journal California. JAN. 6, 2012 By STEVEN GREENHUT On December 29, 2011, the California Supreme Court handed down what the state’s urban redevelopment agencies (RDAs) and their supporters called a “worst of all worlds” ruling—first upholding
Read MoreJudge Cancels California Trade War
JAN. 6, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Trade war! The newspaper headlines last week read, “California Low Carbon Fuel Standard Blocked in Court.” It was a component of California’s AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, which was scheduled
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