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Back to homepageSalmon eating farmers along San Joaquin River
April 1, 2103 By Wayne Lusvardi As with the fish eating Jonah in the Bible story, salmon now are eating California farmers. The San Joaquin River is California’s longest river, running 366 miles from the Sierra Nevadas through the Central
Read MoreDid Gov. Brown really cut staff costs?
March 31, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Gov. Jerry Brown has received a lot of media attention lately with his news release that he cut his personal staff budget by about 50 percent compared to his predecessor, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In
Read MoreRedevelopment 2.0 keeps flaws of the old redevelopment
This is Part Two of a two-part series. Part One is here. March 29, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Los Angeles-based redevelopment expert Larry Kosmont is marketing his Redevelopment 2.0 idea as a way to compete with other states that currently are
Read MoreRedevelopment 2.0 won’t rejuvenate ‘old factory belts’
This is Part One of a two-part series. Part Two is here. March 28, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Redevelopment 1.0 died statewide in 2011 when Gov. Jerry Brown phased it out, mainly because it was robbing local school districts of
Read MoreMcClintock, Zetland wage CA water war
March 25, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi In California, water wars are fought not merely over water but over water ideology that justifies the creation of commercial or public sector jobs that flow from the water. The latest water war involves
Read MoreThe radical roots of Jerry Brown’s school finance reform plan
March 22, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi California Gov. Jerry Brown’s recently proposed radical public school financing reform –- the so-called “Local Control Funding Formula” –- reflects the Catholic Jesuit social doctrine of 1968 called “the preferential option for the poor.”
Read MoreArid-headed water war breaks out between LA and PHX
March 20, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The word arid has two meanings: insufficient rainfall to grow trees or dull and boring. The second meaning seems to characterize the level of intelligence that’s on display in the recent media water war
Read MoreCap and trade shifts from cutting smog to shifting wealth
March 17, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi California is subtly shifting the spending goals of its cap-and-trade taxes from reducing air pollution to reducing the “urban heat island effect.” In so doing, it believes it has found a green justification finally
Read MoreL.A. County takes thunder out of rain tax — for now
March 16, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi On March 13, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors may have taken the thunder out of the public opposition to its proposed storm water tax, called the Clean Water-Clean Beaches Measure. It voted
Read MoreLegislature bringing defeated Prop. 31 back to life
March 14, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The voters spoke. Now the California Legislature is working to defy them. Proposition 31 was the only ballot initiative involving government reform that was defeated at the polls on Nov. 6, 2012. Now it’s
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