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California Supporters of Economic and Personal Freedom Can Plan for 2014 by...

Want to advance and protect economic and personal freedom in California in 2014? Turn off the talk radio. Instead, turn on Cable Channel 19 or whatever station broadcasts your local government...

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Regional Sports and Entertainment Facilities in the Urban Core Attract Costly...

Any fiscal conservative who joins a bipartisan coalition to advance a common cause needs to be wary about becoming one of the Left’s “useful idiots.” A classic example is now unfolding in Sacramento,...

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It’s Winnable! Conditions Are Ripe for a Republican to Get Elected in 2014 as...

News media and California Republican Party activists are focused on which Republicans are running for Governor, and rightfully so. But there is anotherelected statewide office that invites a campaign...

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4 Democrat-Held Statewide Offices Vulnerable to GOPers Who Focus Campaigns on...

State Office Democrats Republicans Governor Jerry Brown (incumbent) Assemblyman Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari Treasurer John Chiang (now Controller) None Controller Board of Equalization Member Betty...

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Celebrate Earth Day: Trees-for-Shade and Cap-and-Trade for California...

Earth Day 2014 deserves a detailed report on the environmental achievements of California High-Speed Rail, the spine of the mass transit connectivity system that will one day transport you between...

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Will a Few Republican State Legislators Open Floodgates for Costly Union...

Union lobbyists try to be discreet when they influence the California State Legislature to gain advantages in public contracting. That secrecy is now crumbling in the case of a new “urgency” bill that...

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Swearengin Faced With Meaningful Veto Opportunity: Will It Happen Before the...

News media has portrayed Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin – a Republican – as a candidate with potential to defeat Democrat Board of Equalization member Betty Yee in the November 4, 2014 election for...

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Legislator Tells County How It Must Bid a Project to Get Prop 1 Water Bond Funds

Apparently the $7.1 billion Proposition 1 water bond is going to win easily on November 4. Politicians already feel comfortable about using the money as leverage to help their political allies. One...

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Assemblyman Luis Alejo “Stood Up” for First Time in His Career (Trying to Get...

Assemblyman Luis Alejo showed up again at the Monterey County Board of Supervisors today to tell them how to build theirinterlake tunnel project in exchange for Water Bond funding. It was an...

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Berkeley Considers Climate Change Labels on Fuel Pumps: Submit Your Ideas for...

UPDATE: The Berkeley City Council voted 7-2 to proceed with its plan to mandate climate change warning labels on fuel pumps. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is also expected to consider a label...

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Taxpayers Fund Biased Policy Justifications for LA Minimum Wage and Bay Area...

About 95% of the public policy studies and reports circulating among California state and local governments reject a free market approach to societal challenges. Instead, these studies and...

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Hobnobbing with the Pope to Stop Climate Change: The Inside Scoop

Californians on vacation in recent weeks may not be aware that their Governor Jerry Brown attended a conference about climate change on July 21-22, 2015at the Vatican, with Pope Francis in attendance....

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Six California School Districts Will Ask Voters on November 3 to Borrow $1.2...

In July 2015 the California Policy Center publishedFor the Kids:California Voters Must Become Wary of Borrowing Billions More from Wealthy Investors for Educational Construction. This report...

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Be Proud of Your New Middle School Gymnasium! (Don’t Mention the $61 Million...

The coalition seeking to put a statewide bond measure for school construction on the ballot in California in 2016 appears to have succeeded. It submitted petitions with signatures to the California...

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Preparing for California’s Life Cycle of Bond Measures and Proposed Tax...

Every Four Years, A Golden Opportunity for Revenue Enhancement November 8, 2016 will likely be a triumphant day for Californians who believe individuals, households, and businesses aren’t giving...

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Union-Infected Community College Board Unexpectedly Respects Its Citizens’...

A stunning vote occurred at the October 20, 2015 meeting of the elected governing board of the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District, located in the eastern suburbs of San Diego (“East...

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Compton Unified School District Authorized By 3.1% of Its Registered Voters...

Preliminary results for the November 3, 2015 elections held in some California counties indicate that voters approved eight of the nine bond measures proposed by a total of eight California school...

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Fresh Out of Bankruptcy, Stockton Plans a Union Monopoly on Construction...

The City of Stockton filed a petition for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy relief on June 28, 2012, and the petition was accepted onApril 1, 2013. Earlier this year, on February 25, the City of Stockton...

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Many Donors Against Pan Recall Don’t Care About Government-Mandated...

California State Senator Richard Pan, a Democrat representing the Sacramento suburbs, was the author of Senate Bill 277, one of the most controversial California bills of 2015. SB 277 is supposed to...

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How to Rebuild the California Republican Party After the 2012 (Yes, 2012)...

In the three months following the November 2012 presidential general election,I compiled and summarized the published advice from partyleaders, thinkers, and grassroots activists about how to reverse...

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