Good Policy

• Why California Job Seekers and Investors Should be PROUD of Apple—Left Hates It
      Why California taxpayers should be steamed at Apple By Mark Lacter, LA Observed,  4/30/12 Part of it has to do with the [...]
• Boeing to Grow Again in RIGHT TO WORK STATE—no extortion by Unions of Workers
      Boeing secures option on more land in South Carolina Puget Sound Business Journal by Steve Wilhelm, 4/24/12 Boeing has secured an option [...]
• Time to privatize the L.A. Zoo? Parking Lots, Stadiums,Libraries?
      Time to privatize the L.A. Zoo? By Matthew DeBord, KPCC, 4/24/12 I’ve been digging through Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s budget proposal for [...]
• 49ers Departure a BIG Win for San Fran Taxpayers
      49ers Departure a Win for San Francisco Taxpayers by Randy Shaw‚ BeyondChron,  4/17/12 As construction breaks ground this week on the San [...]
• CA small businesses more optimistic than most
      California small businesses more optimistic than most Central Valley Business Times,  4/12/12 •  But still not completely out of the grip [...]
• Editorial by Stephen Frank “Allow Credit Unions to Compete With Banks—Support H.R. 1418 by Royce”
      Editorial by Stephen Frank   “Allow Credit Unions to Compete With Banks—Support H.R. 1418 by Royce” For the California Political News and [...]
• Texas Expands 80 MPH Speed Limit–Love Texas!
      Texas Expands 80 MPH Speed Limit Texas toll roads to post 80 MPH speed limits. The Newspaper, 4/6/12 Roads nationwide are [...]
• California traffic deaths at 66-year low
      California traffic deaths at 66-year low Central Valley Business Times,  4/4/12 •  State says safety improvements should get some credit •  [...]
• Good News!!! Foreclosure rates fall across Central Valley
      Foreclosure rates fall across Central Valley Central Valley Business Times, 3/27/12 •  Declined in every metro in January, says new report [...]
• Patient punishment: Medicinal pot user weeded out of work
      Patient punishment: Medicinal pot user weeded out of work By: Joshua Sabatini, SF Examiner, 03/18/12 A union labor boss is asking The [...]
• Seiler: Local CA Governments Face Bankruptcy Quandary
      Local Governments Face Bankruptcy Quandary By JOHN SEILER, CalWatchdog, 3/16/12 Bankruptcy is the boogeyman haunting governments across America. It’s not a question [...]
• Apple Adding 3600 New Jobs—In Texas
      Apple to add 3600 jobs at new $304 million campus in Austin Tech Newest,  3/10/12 Apple Inc. plans to create a $304 [...]
• CA Proposes Rules For Autonomous Cars
  California Proposes Rules For Autonomous Cars By Kurt Ernst, Motor Authority,  3/09/12 As of now, the only state where self-driving cars [...]
• Lebarre: Americans First
  Americans First By Mike LeBarre, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views  2/4/12 We all have concerns, worries and heartache. Good [...]
• UC using more private developers for student housing–good start
  UC using more private developers for student housing Erica Perez, California Watch,  1/30/12 The University of California has been slowly [...]
• Choice of Energy Sources: Another Reason to Move to Texas
  Ten Years of Texas Electric Utility Deregulation Texans talk about electricity providers the way urban epicures discuss recipes. Greentechmedia, 1/26/12 Texas has the [...]
• Workers’ comp reforms, rulings cut benefits by 58%
  Workers’ comp reforms, rulings cut benefits by 58% Sacramento Business Journal [...]
• As Feds (Gov’t) Abandon Cities, Corporate (Private Sector) Clout Grows
  As Feds Abandon Cities, Corporate Clout Grows by Randy Shaw‚ Beyoin Chron,  1/17/12 On Friday, January 13, a large group [...]
• Market, Not Govt., Builds Cheaper Housing–No Surprise
  Market, Not Govt., Builds Cheaper Housing By WAYNE LUSVARDI, Cal Watchdog,  1/17/12 Is the demise of redevelopment hurting the poor? El Monte Mayor [...]
• Brown to welfare clients: work, or else–sounds like a Republican
  Brown to welfare clients: work, or else By Daniel Weintraub, Healthy Cal, 1/12/12 Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing the most far-reaching [...]
• Google: Major Player in Solar Industry
  Google Invests $94 Million in Solar Energy by Zoe Fox, Mashable, 12/20/11 Google announced a major investment in four solar [...]
• CA No. 2 in U.S. in government job cuts
      California No. 2 in U.S. in government job cuts Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 12/29/11 Over the past five years, [...]
• Mimi Steel: Community Organizing for the Constitution: The Price of Liberty
        Community Organizing for the Constitution:  The Price of Liberty Mimi Steel, Exclusive to the California Political News and Views, 12/26/11   As [...]
• Faith in America–Faith IS America
  Faith in America http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/26/morning-bell-faith-in-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell Matt Spalding, Heritage Foundation,  12/26/11 “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time,” Thomas [...]
• Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas (FORBS),–an Association for Santa’s
  Even Santa’s Got an Association TRACY WOOD, voiceofoc, 12/23/11 Everybody these days seem to have an interest group. Businesses have the chambers [...]
• Who Created Prosperity? Bureaucrats Or Individuals?
  Who Created Prosperity? Bureaucrats Or Individuals? By SVETLANA KUNIN, Investors Daily,  12/19/11 I am not sure what is more puzzling: President Obama’s [...]
• Man Bites Dog in San Diego–450 Jobs CREATED
  Solar manufacturing plant expected to create 450 local jobs San Diego News Room,  12/15/11 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Soitec, a French [...]
• Outsourcing Could save parks and CA fiscal crisis
  Civic California A new law could revitalize local governance in the Golden State. Ashley Trim, City Journal,  12/13/11 California’s periodic crises have often [...]
• Barajas: Who Said Life Would be Easy?
      Who Said Life Would be Easy? By Hector Barajas, Fox & Hounds,  12/07/11 Enough already with this Occupy Wall Street nonsense. Don’t get [...]
• CA Traffic deaths decline to lowest level in 60+ years
  Traffic deaths decline to lowest level in 60+ years Central Valley Business Times,  12/08/11 •  California sees 12 percent drop in 2010 [...]
• Taking the Pledge: Anti-Tax Pledge to Target CA Officials; Follows Norquist’s Efforts
  Taking the Pledge: Anti-Tax Pledge to Target CA Officials; Follows Norquist’s Efforts California County News, 12/06/11 If you paid any attention to [...]
• Good news story: Oakland Suing Rioters!
  Store Owner Still Waiting for Looters to Pay After Mehserle verdict, Oakland sued rioters, a tactic it may use against some [...]
• States Should Consider Modest Increases in Speed Limits–CA to add 5mph?
  States Should Consider Modest Increases in Speed Limits Baruch Feigenbaum, Reason,  11/21/11 While drivers in Europe and Asia can travel 87 miles [...]
• They are Here!!! Google to make DRIVERLESS cars in U.S.?
  Google to make driverless cars in U.S.? Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, 11/14/11 Google is reportedly considering making its driverless [...]
• House of Representatives Votes No to $$ for Arnold High Speed Choo Choo
      New Setback for High-Speed Rail House vote to strip funding creates more uncertainty. By Kevin Riggs, nbclosangeles, 11/18/11 California’s bullet train can get [...]
• Millbrae votes to outsource police services
  Millbrae votes to outsource police services By Aaron Kinney, Mecury News, 11/16/11 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON BLUE HEADLINE “When we make [...]
• Man Bites dog: Unneeded Sacto Gov’t Agency Closed
  Postsecondary Education Commission shutting down Sacramento Business Journal by Kelly Johnson,   11/15/11 This week marks the end of the road for the [...]
• The Enduring Proposition 13
  The Enduring Proposition 13 Try as it might, the Left just can’t kill California’s property tax cap. Troy Senik, City Journal, 9/14/11 Los [...]