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Back to homepageGerrymander backfires on Dems in Pasadena
April 23, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Gerrymandering is a strategy to manipulate political district boundaries to split the voting population in favor of the group in power. But sometimes gerrymandering is subject to the Law of Unintended Consequences and results
Read MoreNew Water Rights Atlas exaggerates CA water problems
April 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The Resource Renewal Institute, an environmental activist organization, recently posted online its new California Water Rights Atlas. The atlas alarmingly asserts: “Currently, water rights holders claim they divert [that is, use] in aggregate approximately 250 million
Read MoreTrust not enough to solve CA water problems
April 18, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Those who want to settle the water wars over the Sacramento Delta by first restoring “trust” rather than implementing the adopted law of the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan should take the advice of comedian W.C.
Read MoreGov. Brown seeking funding for CA bullet train
April 16, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Why did Gov. Jerry Brown travel to China on a trade mission to secure investment from them for the California High Speed Rail Authority? The answer is that proposed public transportation projects keep chugging along
Read MoreCA comeback mostly about shifting funds around
April 10, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times an article, “Lessons from a Comeback.” However, a comeback for state government should not be confused with an economic or jobs recovery. A number of liberal, conservative and moderate
Read MoreCutting pork could close CalSTRS funding gap
April 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The California Legislative Analyst recently reported that the funding gap for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System was $4.5 billion per year in additional funding. There’s no proposal on the table anywhere on how
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What is CA’s bankruptcy-pension end game?
April 5, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi In his absurdist play, “Endgame,” about a chess game where there are few pieces left on the board, Irish playwright Samuel Beckett wrote: “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Read MoreBullet train bulldozes a new ‘Chinatown’
April 2, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic movie, “Chinatown,” was inspired by California’s water wars of almost a century ago. A modern day version of the movie seems to be playing out in California’s proposed bullet train
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