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Back to homepageIs CA really barreling down recovery road?
Feb. 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Former New York Times journalist Froma Harrop wrote on Real Clear Politics that it’s “tough times for California bashers” because of the recent turnaround of the state. Harrop argued that those who have bashed California
Read MoreIs CA ‘Echo Boom’ financing tax flight to Fort Alamo?
Feb. 8, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi By now most Californians have heard the radio ads by Texas Gov. Rick Perry urging businesses to move to Texas. California Gov. Jerry Brown has inferred that the Texas governor is an annoying person.
Read MoreDo 57 percent really want higher CA property taxes?
Feb. 1, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi A new public opinion poll reported 57 percent of all California “adults” would favor lowering the majority threshold required to pass “local school parcel taxes.” But only property owners — not all “adult” residents
Read MoreBrown re-funds some lost school jobs earmarks
Jan. 27, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The public never really knows what is going on in politics because public policies are described in words that make government sound like it is a church rather than coercive government. Such is the
Read More‘New’ Delta plan rehashes old plans from 1950s and 70s
Jan. 24, 2013 by Wayne Lusvardi Just as Hollywood often remakes old movies, water engineers apparently rehash old forgotten plans to refashion the Sacramento Delta. And then the proponents call these plans “new” and “cheaper” alternatives. Water engineer Robert Pyke
Read MoreCalifornia Taxes Success, Texas Taxes Results of Success
Jan. 11, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Chuck DeVore’s timely new book, “The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America,” can be summed up in one riveting sentence by him: “California taxes success, while Texas taxes
Read MoreEdison bailed out CA Cap & Trade auction
Jan. 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The facts slowing coming out about the state’s first Cap and Trade auction seriously question whether the system is already being gamed by government, together with electric utilities. Edison International made an announcement on Dec.
Read MoreFederal courts throw out excessive storm water regulations
Jan. 9, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi The expression “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” means avoiding throwing something out that is good when trying to get rid of something bad. In two separate recent California court cases dealing
Read MoreGrowth controls, not Prop. 13, produced state deficits
Jan. 7, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi It is not Proposition 13 or greedy bankers, but the many layers of growth control laws that are the main instigator of the prolongation of California’s economic recession since 2007. And with the recession
Read MoreCould Occupiers and Tea Partiers join to fight growth controls?
Jan. 3, 2013 By Wayne Lusvardi Mixing metaphors, David Farber once said, “Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.” That may be the case with flirting discussions between the Tea Party and the Occupy social movements in California. There is a plausible
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