Thomas D. Elias
Can Carson, Inglewood Skip One Crucial Step?
Reform of the California Environmental Quality Act has become a mantra for many California politicians over the last several years, all the way up...
Loretta Sanchez Changes Calculus of Kamala’s Senate Bid
Democrats in Congress never will say so publicly. They know, though, they have little or no hope of taking back control of the House...
Next Round of Base Closures Is Not Close
When former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel asked Congress last year to authorize a new round of military base closings, alarm bells went off in...
Why Is Everyone Mum About PUC Bump in Electric Rates?
If a committee of legislators or U.S. senators whose most influential members were under criminal investigation ever considered raising taxes on Californians by significant amounts,...
Spike in Foreign Students and Anti-Semitism a Coincidence?
There is no doubt dependence on the higher tuition paid by out-of-state and foreign students has become established policy at the University of California....
How Is PG&E Feeling Today? Mighty ‘Fine’
Only minutes after an announcement that the California Public Utilities Commission would fine the state’s largest utility company $1.6 billion for violating state and...
A Travesty if Brown Fails to Sign This Bill
Rarely has a new law been so urgently and obviously needed as the broad children’s vaccination requirement now being carried by the state Legislature’s...
Getting Serious About Motor Voter Law
No sooner had Oregon’s Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed a new law automatically making a registered voter of every person who applies for or...
Florida and Texas: You Guys Listen up
The drumbeat from Republican politicians, governors of states like Texas and Florida, and from independent relocation consultants seems constant:
California’s business climate stinks.
High taxes and...
The P.U. Odor That Encircles the PUC
The strong odor surrounding California’s most powerful regulatory commission this spring stems not only from corrupt-seeming decisions but from fear.
Fear that past and present...
