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Desalination Should Be Part of California’s Water Future
In California, we seem to be living in the days of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” As Steve Milloy said last week, there’s water, water everywhere, but almost nary a drop to drink. California has “840 miles of coastline,” tweeted Milloy, the author who is primarily responsible for giving ...
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Will $4 Gas Prices Sink Campaign to Keep Gas Tax Increase?
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration and many Sacramento are working overtime to try and convince California voters to reject an effort to repeal last year’s very controversial $52 billion gas and car tax increase. The measure, which is nearly certain to make the November 2018 ballot, is favored for passage in ...
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Striving to Get to Hanford in Balancing California’s Competing Intellectual Property Interests
Perhaps no area of the world better serves as a reminder of the importance of copyright protections as Southern California. Movie studios, music companies and video game developers make Los Angeles a copyright company town. Such industries are built upon the guarantee that a creator or artist can retain a ...
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Lack of Trust Sparks Motor Voter Fears
There’s some concern that the 2015 motor voter law will automatically register illegal immigrants to vote in California when they renew their driver’s license after April 1. The Department of Motor Vehicles is bound by a January court ruling to send information about drivers to the secretary of state’s office ...
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Will Taxpayers Get a Good Deal from “Government Cars ‘R Us”?
Do taxpayers get a good deal when government starts to play car salesman by offering government subsidies to buy electric cars or zero-emission vehicles? Watch this new animated video to learn about how “Government Cars ‘R Us” only really benefits upper-income and wealthy Americans who are in the market to ...
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Does Amazon Already Know Location of its Next Headquarters?
When it comes to choosing vendors and making other business decisions, we’ve all had our secret preferences – the tax attorneys who saved our competitors a lot of money, the website developers from our old firm, the office space next to our favorite wine bar. Oftentimes, we’ve already made a ...
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LA Takes Crown Again as Nation’s Worst Traffic
Ask anyone who drives even on a semi-regular basis in Los Angeles which city has the worst traffic in the world and the answer will invariably be “Los Angeles” with no moment of hesitation. By no coincidence, a transportation analytics firm says the same thing. Inrix, which provides “a data-rich ...
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Breaking Down Barriers
Watch our new animated video to learn how breaking down barriers in state insurance adjuster licensing could speed up response times for disaster claims and everyday claims, lower costs, and provide job opportunities. It’s based off of Wayne Winegarden’s new study, “Breaking Down Barriers”. Click here to download a copy.
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Will Funding for New Water Storage Be Hijacked at the Last Minute?
The effort to build more water storage in California just hit another setback. The bureaucrats at the California Water Commission just released their scorecards for 11 proposed water projects from around the state. Their scorecard – which supposedly ranks their “public benefit” to California taxpayers – ranked two critical statewide ...
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Do We Really Need to Legislate Plastic Straws?
Ian Calderon, the Assembly’s Democratic majority leader, wants to criminalize the act of providing unrequested free plastic straws at sit-down restaurants. Assembly Bill 1884 threatens waiters who give customers straws they didn’t ask for with as many as six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Lawmakers ...
Desalination Should Be Part of California’s Water Future
In California, we seem to be living in the days of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” As Steve Milloy said last week, there’s water, water everywhere, but almost nary a drop to drink. California has “840 miles of coastline,” tweeted Milloy, the author who is primarily responsible for giving ...
Will $4 Gas Prices Sink Campaign to Keep Gas Tax Increase?
Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration and many Sacramento are working overtime to try and convince California voters to reject an effort to repeal last year’s very controversial $52 billion gas and car tax increase. The measure, which is nearly certain to make the November 2018 ballot, is favored for passage in ...
Striving to Get to Hanford in Balancing California’s Competing Intellectual Property Interests
Perhaps no area of the world better serves as a reminder of the importance of copyright protections as Southern California. Movie studios, music companies and video game developers make Los Angeles a copyright company town. Such industries are built upon the guarantee that a creator or artist can retain a ...
Lack of Trust Sparks Motor Voter Fears
There’s some concern that the 2015 motor voter law will automatically register illegal immigrants to vote in California when they renew their driver’s license after April 1. The Department of Motor Vehicles is bound by a January court ruling to send information about drivers to the secretary of state’s office ...
Will Taxpayers Get a Good Deal from “Government Cars ‘R Us”?
Do taxpayers get a good deal when government starts to play car salesman by offering government subsidies to buy electric cars or zero-emission vehicles? Watch this new animated video to learn about how “Government Cars ‘R Us” only really benefits upper-income and wealthy Americans who are in the market to ...
Does Amazon Already Know Location of its Next Headquarters?
When it comes to choosing vendors and making other business decisions, we’ve all had our secret preferences – the tax attorneys who saved our competitors a lot of money, the website developers from our old firm, the office space next to our favorite wine bar. Oftentimes, we’ve already made a ...
LA Takes Crown Again as Nation’s Worst Traffic
Ask anyone who drives even on a semi-regular basis in Los Angeles which city has the worst traffic in the world and the answer will invariably be “Los Angeles” with no moment of hesitation. By no coincidence, a transportation analytics firm says the same thing. Inrix, which provides “a data-rich ...
Breaking Down Barriers
Watch our new animated video to learn how breaking down barriers in state insurance adjuster licensing could speed up response times for disaster claims and everyday claims, lower costs, and provide job opportunities. It’s based off of Wayne Winegarden’s new study, “Breaking Down Barriers”. Click here to download a copy.
Will Funding for New Water Storage Be Hijacked at the Last Minute?
The effort to build more water storage in California just hit another setback. The bureaucrats at the California Water Commission just released their scorecards for 11 proposed water projects from around the state. Their scorecard – which supposedly ranks their “public benefit” to California taxpayers – ranked two critical statewide ...
Do We Really Need to Legislate Plastic Straws?
Ian Calderon, the Assembly’s Democratic majority leader, wants to criminalize the act of providing unrequested free plastic straws at sit-down restaurants. Assembly Bill 1884 threatens waiters who give customers straws they didn’t ask for with as many as six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000. Lawmakers ...
