Californians like sprawl far more than ‘smart growth’
June 25, 2013 By Chris Reed California’s official embrace of trendy “smart growth” — the policy/religion that assumes it’s best for individuals, communities and Gaia for most people to live in densely packed areas near transportation hubs, so they don’t
Read MoreNFL tricking kids into signing up for Obamacare
June 24, 2013 By John Seiler I used to be a big sports fan. But except for sporadic games in the other professional leagues, the only one I follow anymore is the NFL. I don’t know why. The game is
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Obamacre ripoff: You die, Massachussets gets rich
June 21, 2013 By John Seiler California leads in state implementation of Obamacare. In 2010, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation making our state the first to set up the “insurance exchanges” that are supposed to make the system work (except
Read MoreSan Onofre gets nuked
June 14, 2013 By Joseph Perkins “VICTORY!” So reads the giddy headline on the Friends of the Earth website. The anti-nuke environmental group is celebrating the surrender of Southern California Edison, which announced last week it will permanently shutter its
Read MoreBudget ‘transparency’ murky in Senate
June 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes SACRAMENTO — I watched in dismay as Senate Democrats voted yesterday to bypass proper procedure in order to play politics with the budget. They withdrew several of their budget bills from the Rules Committee,
Read MoreNorth/South CA intensify water war
June 13, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi A North/South California water war has been waging since William Mulholland took a civilian militia of shotgun-wielding soldiers to Owens Valley in 1927 to guard the Los Angeles Aqueduct from further bombings by local
Read MoreNew bill would short-circuit Hoover call for green power ‘timeout’
June 11, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi State Assemblyman V. Manuel Perez, D-Coachella, has proposed an ambitious new bill that would increase the mandate for green power in California from 33 percent to 51 percent by the end of 2030. This
Read MoreReinflating debate about suburbia
June 10, 2013 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — After the housing bubble burst a few years ago, sending real estate prices through the floor in many places, some influential academics and urban planners celebrated the supposed demise of something they
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