by jpitney | Dec 30, 2025 | California Politics, Economic Policy, Education, Environment, Homelessness, Poverty, State Government, Taxes, Transportation
Jim Geraghty at NRO: As I wrote earlier this year, U.S. News and World Report ranks each state on a wide variety of categories. In the most recent assessment, California ranked dead last in opportunity, dead last in affordability, 47th in employment, 47th in energy...
by jpitney | Dec 29, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media, Newspapers
Sipho Kings at the Nieman Lab: This moment feels like rock bottom. And in this crisis, there ought to be so much opportunity. But we’re not learning from the past. Instead, we’re approaching this new era of generative AI much like we did platforms. Big Western...
by jpitney | Dec 28, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
Paul Kane at WP: With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Monday, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first year of a new presidency, according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. Despite that lack of...
by jpitney | Dec 27, 2025 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Annie Grayer, Molly English, and Alex Leeds Matthews at CNN: Rep. Michael McCaul — who is retiring after two decades in the House, where he has served as chairman of the Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees — told CNN that Congress has changed for the...
by jpitney | Dec 26, 2025 | Business, California Politics, Coronavirus, Taxes
Ashley Zavala at KCRA-TV: Businesses large and small across California are paying even more on their payroll taxes to the federal government this year because of spending decisions the state’s Legislature and governor made within the last few years. ...
