Tag "Wayne Lusvardi"
Back to homepageNo Shortage of Water Mythmakers
APRIL 5, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Does California have enough water? Peter H. Gleick of the Pacific Institute in Oakland thinks not. He wrote yesterday in “Myths of California water shortfalls” that it is a myth there is enough water
Read MoreSky Not 'Falling' on School Budgets
APRIL 4, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI If you listen to anyone up and down the food chain of public-school funding in California, Gov. Jerry Brown’s failure to negotiate a budget deal with Republicans means that the sky is falling on
Read MoreCalifornia Suffers Most Cities in Decline
APRIL 1, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Facetiously speaking, Gov. Jerry Brown couldn’t have picked a better time to put taxes on the ballot, rather than work out a budget deal with the Republicans in the State Legislature. The economy is
Read MoreDems Put Brakes on Budget Train Wreck
MARCH 28, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A new Field Poll found that a supermajority of Democrats has swung against tax increases and wants to halt what appears to be an unstoppable future state budget train wreck. In what should have been
Read MoreWater Board Dunks 'Animal Farm’ Policy
MARCH 24, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California policy makers are busy mandating wind and solar farms in its deserts. But along its coastline, the Water Quality Resources Control Board is busy enforcing inconsistent environmental policy right out of George Orwell’s
Read MoreBrown’s Budget Blockbuster
MARCH 22, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI (Satire) Gov. Jerry Brown may have learned in Jesuit school how to put the proverbial sacrificial lamb on the state budget altar for slaying. Or maybe he learned from all those Hollywood cinema tycoons
Read MoreNational City Eminent Domain On Ropes?
MARCH 21, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Just as State Assembly Republicans were pulling their punches to keep eminent domain alive for redevelopment in California, a timely eminent domain case involving the taking of a youth boxing center has emerged in National
Read MoreCalifornia Budget Gap Grows
John Seiler: Wayne Lusvardi contributed the following: Where’s Waldo in the Western U.S.? Take a look at the bar graph below, excerpted from the San Francisco Federal Reserve website. The graph shows in the blue bars the percent of budget
Read MoreFamilies, Not Relief, Still Safety Net
MARCH 18, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI With implications for California budget discussions, a new study shows that unemployment benefits delay the time the jobless find work. The study comes out at a time when California’s unemployment rate of 12.4 percent
Read MoreLockyer: Pensions Won't “Crush Govt.”
MARCH 17, 2011 BY WAYNE LUSVARDI Bill Lockyer’s recent harsh criticism of a bluntly honest Little Hoover Commission report, “Pensions for Retirement Security,” sounded more like Shakespeare’s King Lear than that of the Treasurer of the State of California. Lockyer is so
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