by jpitney | Dec 11, 2024 | California Politics, Taxes
Adam Hoffer, Jacob Macumber-Rosin at the Tax Foundation: California pumps up its gas tax the most at 68.1 cents per gallon (cpg), followed by Illinois (66.5 cpg) and Pennsylvania (58.7 cpg). The lowest gas tax rates are levied in Alaska at 8.95 cpg, followed...
by jpitney | Dec 9, 2024 | Bipartisanship, California Politics, Congress, Senate
Laphonza Butler spoke to Politico Playbook about her 13-month tenure as an appointed senator from California: I don’t believe Gov. Newsom was elected to be the governor of the resistance. I don’t believe Sen.-elect Schiff was elected to be the senator-elect of of the...
by jpitney | Dec 7, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
Hans Johnson and Eric McGhee at PPIC While California’s housing market has undergone tremendous changes over the years, with some aspects worsening in the last decade, the central problem—high housing costs—remains the same. On PPIC’s 30th anniversary, we take stock...
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...
