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Capitol Weekly Top 100 List snubs women
No sooner had Capitol Weekly announced its list of “the most powerful movers and shakers in California politics” than Sacramento insiders were griping about who’d been snubbed. The list is considered the barometer of Capitol power, and as such, it’s
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Water Policy: ‘New normal’ for lower Colorado River lakes is, actually, normal
It is being proclaimed that there is a “new normal” of historic low water levels for reservoirs along the Lower Colorado River due to “climate change.” But a closer look beyond the photos of bathtub rings along the banks of
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AB 154: Fuzzy numbers used to justify increasing abortion providers
SACRAMENTO — Despite questions about statistics, AB 154 passed both houses of the state Legislature and is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown for his signature or veto. In addition to medical doctors, it would allow nurses, midwives and physician assistants
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SB 365 aims at limiting tax credits
The California Tax Code is a monster. Just the first 136 sections of the code fill up 202 pages with more than 100,000 words. The entire code contain 60,709 sections. If those first 136 sections are indicative, the entire code
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CA teachers sue union over political use of dues
Monday marks the start of a new school year for Rebecca Friedrichs, a kindergarten teacher at Holder School in Buena Park, a Southern California city of 82,000. The 25-year veteran of the Savannah School District is to be forgiven
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CA Lifeline program cost could triple under AB 1407
It’s been trendy for a couple of years now for people to dump their phone landlines and go only with their mobile phones, saving money and hassles. The government is going in the opposite direction, setting up both land
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Nitrogen fix could cancel CA fertilizer tax
A natural bacterial colonization process could end the proposed regulation of agricultural nitrate and taxation of fertilizer in California. Energy costs to produce synthetic nitrogen fertilizers could also be eliminated. It could also eventually render unnecessary overkill stormwater regulations in
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State, local governments misusing voter-approved bond money
It seems common sense that bond money approved by a state’s voters would be spent directly on the projects it was intended for. Unfortunately, lawmakers, trying to find resources to bandage constant budget imbalances, often raid bond funds by
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Micro-managed grid short-circuting CA market electricity
In Germany, merchant-energy companies are considering moving to other countries where they can make a profit. Such companies are private firms that operate electricity generators. They are separate from public utilities, such as the Southern California Edison Company, or
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Election reform Part 2: ‘Dark money,’ vs. public money
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of 2. Part 1 is here. Two election bills caused a stir in the Assembly Elections and Redistricting Committee last week. The first, SB 27, I covered in Part 1 of this series. A
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