It’s been almost 41 years since Proposition 13 passed in 1978, lowering property taxes for every home, apartment building, commercial structure, farm and parking lot in California. Through almost all that time, the initiative sponsored […]
By Tom Elias Some of the 25 surviving Republicans in the state Assembly – a politically endangered species in today’s California – rebelled against their minority leader this summer because he went along with […]
By Tom Elias The well-documented corruption in various wings of California state government shows few signs of abating soon. Even though Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest questionable appointees to the state’s powerful Public Utilities Commission […]
By Tom Elias Back in 2002, when California set its first statewide renewable energy goals, the petroleum industry and others said it would be impossible for 20 percent of all electricity to come from solar, […]
By Tom Elias The California ballot has seen plenty of dangerous propositions over the years, and yet another one may face voters wherever they cast votes next November. Fortunately, virtually all such questionable proposals have […]
By Tom Elias The only time California ceded control of its power supply to out-of-state interests, it produced utter disaster: an electricity crunch that saw blackouts and brownouts proliferate in 2000 and 2001, while […]
By Tom Elias It doesn’t seem that way now, with one hurricane after another battering the East and Gulf coasts, shutting down oil refineries, flooding downtowns and residential neighborhoods alike and inflicting hundreds of […]
By Tom Elias Gavin Newsom has a reported net worth of more than $10 million, an ownership interest in more than a dozen businesses from wineries to hotels and a steadfast, almost lifelong friendship with […]
By Thomas D. Elias No other state has a cap-and-trade system anything like California’s for limiting and, in the long run, vastly reducing production of greenhouse gases behind climate change. In fact, the chairmen of […]
By Tom Elias No industry is more vital to the finances of vast numbers of Californians than real estate. With homes and buildings the largest assets of millions of families in this state, it’s vital […]