Thomas D. Elias
How to Clean up the Messy PUC
There is little doubt about past corruption at the state's Public Utilities Commission, repeatedly caught in bed with executives of California's largest utility companies.
A...
Advertising Can Be Embarrassing
Turn on the TV next time a NASCAR stock car race is on and get a good look at the coveralls worn by the...
Silly, Yes, but Could Be Worse
A few months ago, it seemed the November election might produce the silliest silly season in modern California politics. The essential good sense of...
Getting Away with Utility Murder
To understand the brazen quality of the latest rate increase application from California's third-largest electric utility, it's necessary to step back in time, to...
Feinstein Is Aging, but Very Nicely
The polls don't look super-strong today for Dianne Feinstein. True, she has a very good approval rating in the latest surveys, the Field Poll...
On Hate, Jews Are an Exception
There has been little more than dithering from the University of California and its top officials in the year since anti-Semitic episodes on several...
Guess Where Traffic Is Worst? Righto
Many of America's worst traffic bottlenecks are holding up commuters for hours each week even where there's plenty of mass transit nearby.
That is the...
Darling, Do You Mind if I Leave?
Here is the bottom line on the significant but under-publicized retirement of Melanie M. Darling, the California Public Utilities Commission judge who fined a...
Making College Transfers Easier
Every forecast of California's future insists this state will need far more college-educated workers than now live here if it is to avert losing...
Liberals Insist That Illegals Won’t Cheat
California's new motor voter law has taken effect, even if it is not yet in massive use. So far the sky has not fallen.
That...
