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Kashkari is the GOP establishment’s choice

I just got another flyer from Neil Kashkari, the fourth so far. See the images below. It’s similar to the first flyer, which I wrote about earlier. Flyers from Tim Donnelly: None so far. I’m not a fan of either. I can’t figure out

President Jerry Brown?

John Seiler May 30, 2014

I think there’s a high chance Gov. Jerry Brown will run for president in 2016. He tried three times already, so you know he has “fire in the belly.” After November, he likely will be coming off an unprecedented election

Tesla latest CA company to diss Golden State

Joseph Perkins May 29, 2014

Tesla Motors, the Palo Alto maker of luxury electric cars, is holding its annual stockholder meeting next Tuesday. It will be interesting to see whether CEO Elon Musk announces the two states that will compete in a “bakeoff” to

CA: Golden State to welfare state

John Seiler May 28, 2014

Reader Manfred von Borks, Sc.D., sent us his analysis of what happened to California: California – The transition from a Golden State to a Warehouse/Welfare State: In the beginning there was real gold in the ground and the people came, then

CalSTRS bailout will be CA version of budget sequester

Chris Reed May 27, 2014

On April 10, 2012, I wrote an op-ed for the L.A. Daily News with an unusual take on what ultimately would kill the bullet train. My theory was that the teachers unions would fight to keep a new mouth from

Would Donnelly run hurt GOP in U.S. House?

John Seiler May 25, 2014

I’ve been watching political campaigns since Barry Goldwater vs. the Ogre LBJ in 1964. And this just doesn’t seem right to me. Roll Call reports on how a victory in the Top Two primary by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly over Neel Kashkari

Typical Sacramento: Weak CalSTRS fix made even weaker

Chris Reed May 24, 2014

So Gov. Jerry Brown is finally forced by events to come up with a CalSTRS pension rescue plan. And as Dan Borenstein points out, it’s so cautious that it doesn’t prevent CalSTRS’ underfunding from getting worse for some time to

Bring Ol’ Sparky back to CA?

John Seiler May 23, 2014

California hasn’t executed anyone in more than 8 years. And just 14 since it was allowed again in 1978. Problems remain with lawsuits concerning the lethal-injection method. And a proposed initiative would shorten death-penalty appeals. But maybe Tennesses has found

High-speed rail crashes into high costs

Kathy Hamilton May 22, 2014

Funding for the high-speed rail project keeps chugging along in Gov. Jerry Brown’s May Revision to his budget proposal for fiscal 2014-15, which begins on July 1. He maintained the same funding request from his January budget, $279,316. That’s

Poll: Special interests run state govt.

John Seiler May 22, 2014

People finally are catching on that “government of the people” isn’t. The Public Policy Institute of California’s new poll finds: “A strong majority says state government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves (68%),