Governor’s Budget Proposes Economic Relief, No New Taxes
Nobody would have been surprised if Governor Newsom had presented his new state budget wearing a neck brace. The whiplash from budget boom to bust […]
Articles by Loren Kaye
Ballot Measures Mostly Do No Harm
Every two years California voters face a mixed bag of ballot measures, many often hostile to business and economic development. This year was no different, […]
Census Deadline Approaches
The unremitting pandemic and economic crises of 2020 have overshadowed what would normally have been a dominant event of community action: the decennial census. Most […]
2020 Budget Depends on Borrowing, New Taxes and Congress
The new state budget went into effect on time last week, after Governor Newsom signed 20 bills enacting hundreds of pages of new legislation and […]
Triskaidekaphobia: noun – fear concerning the number 13
Failure is an orphan, but in politics its authors still need a fall guy. Hence the odd notion being advanced that the statewide school bond […]