by jpitney | Nov 25, 2024 | California Politics
Melody Petersen at LAT: California is making so much solar energy that large commercial operators are increasingly forced to stop production, raising questions about the state’s costly plan to shift entirely to carbon-free sources of electricity. In the last 12...
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2024 | California Politics, Homelessness, Housing
California is nearly four times larger than North Carolina by population. And yet they build the same amount of new housing per year. https://t.co/d9ew5unkFf — Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) November 23, 2024
by jpitney | Nov 14, 2024 | California Politics, Trade
Levi Sumagaysay at CalMatters: Businesses that import goods into the country must pay the tariffs. They tend to pass on their increased costs to consumers, with some executives recently promising to do just that during their earnings calls. So economists largely view...
by jpitney | Oct 10, 2024 | Ballot Measures, California Politics
Californians are facing decisions on ten statewide ballot propositions in November 2024. The Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College produced this online Video Voter Guide to give voters an objective, easy-to-understand summary of...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Local Government, Regulation
Miles Warner at The Santa Monica Daily Press: This week we found out officially, what many of us already know experientially, that Santa Monica is the most expensive city to conduct business in. Our academic neighbors to the East, Claremont McKenna College’s...
by jpitney | Sep 13, 2024 | California Politics, Education
Dan Walters at CalMatters: California’s public schools have a numbers problem —and it’s not just that their students don’t score very highly in national tests of mathematics ability. Their other numbers problem is the financial squeeze posed by declining...
