Keeping Energy Plan Grounded
Closing Aliso Canyon would only drive up already sky-high prices paid for natural gas in Los Angeles. By Tracy Hernandez Friday, September 23, 2016 Los Angeles Business Journal To keep energy costs low, supply must be reliable and sufficient. According to Philip Moeller, a member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, “If you take enough […]
Yes on Measure M Team Put On a Pretty Good Show!
Posted by GLORIA OHLAND August 31, 2016 At the launch of the Measure M campaign in honor of Labor Day and in front of Union Station in the blazing heat (climate change?), Tracy Hernandez of BizFed (the massive countywide alliance of 272,000 businesses) said it best: “This crazy cast of characters does not stand together all […]
Bill to reshape area air-quality board fails
By DAVID DANELSKI / STAFF WRITER Published: Sept. 1, 2016 Updated: 9:27 p.m. California Assembly rejects a proposal to add three seats to the board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District The California Assembly has rejected a bill that would have reduced the local control of Southern California’s regional air district’s board by […]
Bid to add more seats to AQMD board fails in Sacramento
Emily Guerin, Writer for KPCC September 01, 03:39 PM “This is a textbook example of institutional racism.” That was the reaction from Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León’s (D-Los Angeles) after his colleagues voted down a bill he wrote that would have added seats for low-income and minority representatives on the board of […]
Proposition 55: A Lesson in Not-So-Temporary Temporary Taxes
by Joel Fox Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Coming out of the Great Recession that ravaged the state budget, Governor Jerry Brown and the state’s teachers’ unions joined forces to successfully push Proposition 30, a 2012 ballot initiative labeled, “Temporary Taxes to Fund Education.” Yet, despite a General Fund that grew 42 percent since Governor Brown became […]
Brown’s housing hypocrisy
Opinion By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox Sunday, August 28, 2016 Jerry Brown worrying about the California housing crisis is akin to the French policeman played by Claude Rains in “Casablanca” being “shocked, shocked” about gambling at the bar where he himself collects his winnings. Brown has long been at the forefront on drafting and […]
Don’t pollute air board with state appointees
By The Editorial Board, LA Daily News POSTED: 08/22/16, 4:19 PM PDT When Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, seen as a swing vote on the court, shifted his allegiance and rendered the deciding vote to uphold the constitutionality of a state minimum wage law in the court’s 1937 West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish decision, […]
Why some business groups are supporting a $2-per-pack tax hike on cigarettes
Alan Young, Staff Writer Sacramento Business Journal August 22, 2016 Two large business organizations in San Francisco and Los Angeles are backing a tax measure that will appear on the November ballot that would hike the cost of cigarettes by $2 a pack. Their endorsements may not make a difference, however, as tobacco companies and […]
