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Uber mobilizes support against Sacramento regulations

In a fight, you go with your strengths. Uber is the social media site whose app connects drivers with riders. Taxis drivers and others don’t like it, and are trying to enact legislation to limit it. Uber now has responded by

$1 billion difference splits bond measures

Wayne Lusvardi August 11, 2014

It’s becoming clear the main difference between the four major water bonds being floated is $1 billion. The $1 billion is the difference between the $3 billion Republicans say is needed for water storage, and the $2 billion in

Tunnel could boost high-speed rail cost

Wayne Lusvardi August 9, 2014

The cost of the high-speed rail project might be going above the current estimate of $68 billion. The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently announced a strategic shift to consider an alternative for its 40-mile Palmdale-to-Burbank link. Instead of the current plan

Water fight: Now it’s four bonds

Wayne Lusvardi August 9, 2014

For California’s water, now it’s dueling water bonds — four of them. First bond: On Friday, Senate Republicans refurbished their own water-bond proposal, now for $8.7 billion. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Nearly a third of the money in the

Cell kill-switch bill moves ahead

James Poulos August 7, 2014

California could soon become the second state in the nation to force so-called “kill switches” into cellphones. The technology causes equipped devices to be disabled remotely, by a figurative flip of the switch. An owner might throw the kill switch

2 realities of $11 billion water bond

Joel Fox August 7, 2014

There are two realities with the current $11.1 billion water bond currently scheduled to appear on the November ballot as Proposition 43. One, the bond is too big and filled with pork. Two, even so, if it appeared on

CA bill aims at home guns

James Poulos August 6, 2014

Proposed gun control legislation often appeals to a sense of public fear. Playing on worries about lone nuts and random killings, gun control groups like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown organization seek to tighten gun restrictions with

Video: Schiff: The next economic crisis

John Seiler August 6, 2014

Can we spend our way toward prosperity? Will the world move away from pricing oil in dollars? Peter Schiff tells Cal WatchDog.com’s James Poulos about the coming consequences of our economic policies and why you can’t rely on the dollar. Who

McCarthy slams brakes on federal funding for high-speed rail

James Poulos August 6, 2014

High-speed rail has a new obstacle: new House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. McCarthy, who has long opposed the plan, has announced that he’ll block any new initiatives to direct federal funds toward the project. According to the Wall Street

Boxer-Feinsten water bill stresses conservation, not supply

Wayne Lusvardi August 5, 2014

There are two ways to manage water. One way is to capture more water and store it for dry years. The second way is to keep dividing up existing water supplies. This second way is pushed in a newly proposed bill,