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CAPITAL IDEAS: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Undermines the Social Responsibility of Businesses and Investment Managers
The concepts behind Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and management are the latest theory trying to address a long-standing question: What is the appropriate social function of a business? This question predates Milton Friedman’s 1970 New York Times piece “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” ...
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High-density policies turning cities into child-free zones
J.D. Vance would not like living in Sausalito. A mere 9% of the city’s residents, the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported, are under 18, making it “one of the handful of communities in California with at least 5,000 people where less than 1 in 10 residents is a child.” Looking ...
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LA mayor slowly dismantles her successful housing plan
LA mayor slowly dismantles her successful housing plan Sal Rodriguez | August 8, 2024 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continues to walk back her most successful initiative to bring much needed housing on the market. On July 1, Bass issued her third revision to Executive Directive 1, which she notes ...
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Read why latest employer is leaving California
Chevron’s Departure Highlights California’s Risky Economic Future
Companies have been decamping from California for greener pastures so frequently that, in some ways, Chevron’s announcement is barely newsworthy. The particulars of Chevron’s decision are important, however, because they exemplify the large economic risks California’s policymakers are taking. Judged by their actions, California’s political leaders, including Governor Newsom, have ...
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Balance between farms, fish needs to be found for food production
“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. California’s farmers are feeling a similar sentiment this year with water allotments cut shorter than expected after a winter with abundant rain and snow. California is the produce basket of ...
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For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage Just 37% Support Government Health Care Takeover SACRAMENTO – For the third year in a row, an overwhelming majority of Americans say they are satisfied with their current health coverage, based ...
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Wildfires need more than money thrown at them to put the flames out
It has been an extraordinary year for California fires. The Park Fire currently raging as of this writing in Butte and Tehama Counties has destroyed nearly 300 homes and businesses and remains just 18 percent contained. More than 200,000 acres of have burned so far, well above the five-year average ...
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Don’t expect housing fixes from the federal government
The heat of a presidential election – especially one that’s seen highly unusual and disruptive events, from an attempted assassination attempt the late-stage replacement of a candidate – is rarely a good time to discuss nuanced policy. Less than 100 days from the vote, both candidates mainly toss out vague ...
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Boom town or bust? Developers postpone new-city plan
The developers apparently ran into bad polling and a negative report from Solano County questioning funding sources for related infrastructure. Taking more time and getting the bureaucratic papers and all the infrastructure funding and governance details in order will address some of the arguments the NIMBYs (Not In My Back ...
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Read about the proposed tax on link clicks
Free Markets, Not a New “Link Tax” Best Way to Preserve California Journalism
One of the most contentious issues at the end of the legislative session is the so-called “California Journalism Preservation Act” (Assembly Bill 886, by Asm. Buffy Wicks, D-Berkeley), which would require online platforms like Google and Meta (parent of Facebook) to pay for digital news content. Payments could be made ...
CAPITAL IDEAS: Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Undermines the Social Responsibility of Businesses and Investment Managers
The concepts behind Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing and management are the latest theory trying to address a long-standing question: What is the appropriate social function of a business? This question predates Milton Friedman’s 1970 New York Times piece “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” ...
High-density policies turning cities into child-free zones
J.D. Vance would not like living in Sausalito. A mere 9% of the city’s residents, the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported, are under 18, making it “one of the handful of communities in California with at least 5,000 people where less than 1 in 10 residents is a child.” Looking ...
LA mayor slowly dismantles her successful housing plan
LA mayor slowly dismantles her successful housing plan Sal Rodriguez | August 8, 2024 Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass continues to walk back her most successful initiative to bring much needed housing on the market. On July 1, Bass issued her third revision to Executive Directive 1, which she notes ...
Read why latest employer is leaving California
Chevron’s Departure Highlights California’s Risky Economic Future
Companies have been decamping from California for greener pastures so frequently that, in some ways, Chevron’s announcement is barely newsworthy. The particulars of Chevron’s decision are important, however, because they exemplify the large economic risks California’s policymakers are taking. Judged by their actions, California’s political leaders, including Governor Newsom, have ...
Balance between farms, fish needs to be found for food production
“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink,” wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. California’s farmers are feeling a similar sentiment this year with water allotments cut shorter than expected after a winter with abundant rain and snow. California is the produce basket of ...
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage
For Third Year in a Row, PRI Survey Finds Vast Majority of Americans Are Satisfied with their Health Coverage Just 37% Support Government Health Care Takeover SACRAMENTO – For the third year in a row, an overwhelming majority of Americans say they are satisfied with their current health coverage, based ...
Wildfires need more than money thrown at them to put the flames out
It has been an extraordinary year for California fires. The Park Fire currently raging as of this writing in Butte and Tehama Counties has destroyed nearly 300 homes and businesses and remains just 18 percent contained. More than 200,000 acres of have burned so far, well above the five-year average ...
Don’t expect housing fixes from the federal government
The heat of a presidential election – especially one that’s seen highly unusual and disruptive events, from an attempted assassination attempt the late-stage replacement of a candidate – is rarely a good time to discuss nuanced policy. Less than 100 days from the vote, both candidates mainly toss out vague ...
Boom town or bust? Developers postpone new-city plan
The developers apparently ran into bad polling and a negative report from Solano County questioning funding sources for related infrastructure. Taking more time and getting the bureaucratic papers and all the infrastructure funding and governance details in order will address some of the arguments the NIMBYs (Not In My Back ...
Read about the proposed tax on link clicks
Free Markets, Not a New “Link Tax” Best Way to Preserve California Journalism
One of the most contentious issues at the end of the legislative session is the so-called “California Journalism Preservation Act” (Assembly Bill 886, by Asm. Buffy Wicks, D-Berkeley), which would require online platforms like Google and Meta (parent of Facebook) to pay for digital news content. Payments could be made ...
