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 18, 2025 | California Politics, Infrastruture, Los Angeles, Transportation
The American Society of Civil Engineers: On December 3, 2025, ASCE Region 9, which encompasses the state of California released the 2025 Report Card for California’s Infrastructure, giving the state an overall grade of C-, consistent with the grade it received in...
by jpitney | Dec 14, 2025 | California Politics, Transportation
Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler at CalMatters: Over the past decade, nearly 40,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been injured on California roads. As an ongoing CalMatters investigation has shown this year, time and again those crashes were caused by...
by jpitney | May 15, 2025 | California Politics, Transportation
Scott Lincicome at The Dispatch: On the leaderboard of government boondoggles, California’s high-speed rail system must surely rank near the top. As Cato Institute analyst Marc Joffe documented in 2023, California voters first approved a $10 billion bond for the...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Transportation
Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...
by jpitney | Mar 22, 2025 | California Politics, Taxes, Transportation
Many people in the Santa Clarita Valley Inland Empire have long commutes. Charging people for the miles they drive? Absolutely not. This would be another costly blow to people who live where they can afford and have no choice but to drive long distances to work. This...
