California
Business & Economics
Warning Labels on Coffee? Latest Junk Lawsuit ‘Win’
New research indicates that coffee might help cut the risk of heart disease. Apparently, that was taken as good news everywhere — except California. Four days after that study was published, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a preliminary ruling that forces stores that sell coffee to post cancer ...
Agriculture
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will We Ever Build More Water Storage in California?
Read the PDF It’s not elected officials’ fault if it doesn’t rain. But they are largely responsible for the issues that arise when it doesn’t. That’s why California’s most-recent drought was often referred to as man-made. The next one, which will reportedly arrive this year, should carry the same label. ...
Blog
Herding Cats and Moving the Ball Forward
Tim Anaya interviews Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work for 9 consecutive Assembly Republican Leaders. To say that leading the minority party in California is a great challenge is an understatement. Transitioning from being one Senator ...
Blog
Will Sacramento Do Anything to Stop State’s “People Problem”?
To say that the Bay Area has problems would be like saying the universe has stars. There are too many to count and even trying to do so creates a cosmic headache. One of these innumerable problems recently caught the eyes of the Wall Street Journal, which tagged a late ...
California
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates – The View from Under the Dome
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates joins us as she celebrates her one-year anniversary as Leader to discuss the top issues on the agenda at the State Capitol – poverty, health care reform, transportation, the state budget, taxes, and her caucus’ priorities for 2018.
Blog
Coffee Causes Cancer? Probably Not.
First it was too hot, then it was too icy, now it causes cancer. Thanks to a judge’s ruling last week, California coffee lovers may soon be seeing dire warnings about cancer risks in their favorite coffeehouses. But is concern for cancer really what’s brewing here? Of course not. It’s ...
California
California’s Net Neutrality Push is a Solution in Search of a Problem
Sacramento seems to ever be in search of a problem to solve even where no problem exists. Count Sen. Scott Wiener’s net neutrality bill among the efforts to force hard medicine on a healthy patient. Wiener’s aim with Senate Bill 822, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, is “to make ...
Blog
SB 827: Another Imperfect yet Positive Effort to Break State’s Housing Logjam
We’ve been critical, for good reason, of the Legislature’s attempts to solve California’s housing crisis. Lawmakers have done little more than talk about the problem and pass useless, even counterproductive, legislation. But we acknowledge good work when we see it, and we commend Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener for his improved ...
Business & Economics
Salim Furth and Emily Hamilton – The Free Market View of SB 827
Salim Furth and Emily Hamilton, research fellows with the free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University, join us to discuss their new research brief on Senate Bill 827, one of this year’s highest-profile housing bills, and other ways that the free market can alleviate California’s housing crisis.
Blog
3 Free-Market Bills Worth Watching in April Committee Rush
Former Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy said it best. When speaking about his time in the Legislature, he said, “I’m not a lawmaker. I’m a Republican!” When I worked in the Legislature, I used to always joke that my fellow Republican staff and I had one busy month a year – April. ...
Warning Labels on Coffee? Latest Junk Lawsuit ‘Win’
New research indicates that coffee might help cut the risk of heart disease. Apparently, that was taken as good news everywhere — except California. Four days after that study was published, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge issued a preliminary ruling that forces stores that sell coffee to post cancer ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Will We Ever Build More Water Storage in California?
Read the PDF It’s not elected officials’ fault if it doesn’t rain. But they are largely responsible for the issues that arise when it doesn’t. That’s why California’s most-recent drought was often referred to as man-made. The next one, which will reportedly arrive this year, should carry the same label. ...
Herding Cats and Moving the Ball Forward
Tim Anaya interviews Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates at the State Capitol in Sacramento. Over the years, I had the opportunity to work for 9 consecutive Assembly Republican Leaders. To say that leading the minority party in California is a great challenge is an understatement. Transitioning from being one Senator ...
Will Sacramento Do Anything to Stop State’s “People Problem”?
To say that the Bay Area has problems would be like saying the universe has stars. There are too many to count and even trying to do so creates a cosmic headache. One of these innumerable problems recently caught the eyes of the Wall Street Journal, which tagged a late ...
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates – The View from Under the Dome
Senate Republican Leader Patricia Bates joins us as she celebrates her one-year anniversary as Leader to discuss the top issues on the agenda at the State Capitol – poverty, health care reform, transportation, the state budget, taxes, and her caucus’ priorities for 2018.
Coffee Causes Cancer? Probably Not.
First it was too hot, then it was too icy, now it causes cancer. Thanks to a judge’s ruling last week, California coffee lovers may soon be seeing dire warnings about cancer risks in their favorite coffeehouses. But is concern for cancer really what’s brewing here? Of course not. It’s ...
California’s Net Neutrality Push is a Solution in Search of a Problem
Sacramento seems to ever be in search of a problem to solve even where no problem exists. Count Sen. Scott Wiener’s net neutrality bill among the efforts to force hard medicine on a healthy patient. Wiener’s aim with Senate Bill 822, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, is “to make ...
SB 827: Another Imperfect yet Positive Effort to Break State’s Housing Logjam
We’ve been critical, for good reason, of the Legislature’s attempts to solve California’s housing crisis. Lawmakers have done little more than talk about the problem and pass useless, even counterproductive, legislation. But we acknowledge good work when we see it, and we commend Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener for his improved ...
Salim Furth and Emily Hamilton – The Free Market View of SB 827
Salim Furth and Emily Hamilton, research fellows with the free-market Mercatus Center at George Mason University, join us to discuss their new research brief on Senate Bill 827, one of this year’s highest-profile housing bills, and other ways that the free market can alleviate California’s housing crisis.
3 Free-Market Bills Worth Watching in April Committee Rush
Former Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy said it best. When speaking about his time in the Legislature, he said, “I’m not a lawmaker. I’m a Republican!” When I worked in the Legislature, I used to always joke that my fellow Republican staff and I had one busy month a year – April. ...
