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Dog bites man, I know, but Joel Fox, who was part of the failed No on Prop 1A campaign, has a call for voters to repeal Prop 1A today. It deserves a reply: California’s high speed rail program was in danger before the debt ceiling debate in Washington. Given the desire to cut trillions of [...]
Last month Californians learned something that those who followed state politics in the 1970s and early 1980s had already known: Governor Jerry Brown marches to the beat of his own drummer. He’s not someone who takes direction from the state legislature, and not someone who will sit there and simply ratify existing deals if he [...]
Note: Scroll down to see two important updates to this post. There’s an interesting agenda item to be discussed at Friday’s Peninsula Cities Consortium meeting – scroll down to Item #7: PCC Agenda 041610 Final I don’t know who requested this item be placed on the agenda, though that would be interesting to know. It [...]
Between 2000 and 2008, the price of oil rose by 600%, from about $20 per barrel to nearly $140 per barrel. In 2008 the price increases spiked, but as the chart below indicates, the increase was underway well before the spike occurred: That increase had a number of important effects. When the price of a [...]
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