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Moonbeams Over California: The 33-percent Non-solution
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.27.2011
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed SB 2x by Joe Simitian, mandating that 33 percent of the state’s energy come from renewable sources by 2020, an increase of 13 percent from the previous mandate of 20 percent. This signals bad news for California but reveals a key dynamic of our ruling class.
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Card-Check Tricks in the Capitol
Capital Ideas
By: Katy Grimes
4.21.2011
Last week Assembly Speaker John Perez suspended the public notice rule for legislative hearings, allowing an Assembly committee to conduct a surprise hearing on a “card check” bill, and voted to pass it to the next committee. That is not the only sleight of hand going on in the quest to eliminate the secret ballot for union representation.
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2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends
Book
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.20.2011
This Almanac of Environmental Trends is an example of the creative destruction of the marketplace, or, in the language of popular culture, a “reboot” of a stale franchise—theannual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. Since 1994, the Index has reportedhighlights of environmental trends in the United States, most—though not all—ofwhich have been steadily improving.
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