by jpitney | Jan 31, 2024 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Environment
Dan Walters at CalMatters enumerates California government’s many dysfunctional projects and adds two to the list. California received $800 million from a settlement with German carmaker Volkswagen over its cheating on pollution emission testing and has spent...
by jpitney | Dec 13, 2023 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Housing, Inequality
Will Parker and Christine Mai-Duc at WSJ: A Los Angeles nonprofit was given government land in January 2007 to build a few dozen units of affordable housing. They’re finally hoping to open the building next year. Lorena Plaza, a 49-unit development rising in the...
by jpitney | Dec 23, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Business, California Politics, Regulation
From Claremont McKenna College: The 2022 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey finds that the cost of doing business in California is higher than in other states in the western United States. The annual survey, published since 2003, finds that 64...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists
John F. Harris at Politico writes about Helena Bottemiller Evich (CMC `09): From the war in Ukraine to the fallout of the Jan. 6 riots, contemporary politics is animated by a large question: Do free societies have a future in an age of tribalism, contempt,...
by jpitney | Jul 20, 2021 | Bureaucracy, Congress
Cerin Lindgrensavage and Liz Hempowicz at The Hill: This week the House Oversight Committee is scheduled to mark up the Accountability for Acting Officials Act, which would close some of the loopholes and ambiguities in the Vacancies Act and give presidents more...
by jpitney | Jul 14, 2021 | Budget, Bureaucracy, Congress
Dan Lips at National Review: [There is] new hope that Congress will soon eliminate significant waste from the federal budget, thanks to a bipartisan effort by the House Appropriations Committee. Representatives Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (R.,...