• pagcor slot
  • pagcor slot online
  • tol777
  • slot tol777
  • tol777
  • slot tol777
  • tol777
  • slot tol777
  • rom88
  • slot rom88
  • Blog

    Blog

    Learn about Sacramento's latest anti-entrepreneurship bill

    ‘Right To Ignore Your Boss’ Bill Could Make Work-Life Balance Worse for Employees

    Haney told the Bay Area News Group that “smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” and that “workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they are not being paid for 24 hours of work.” It’s a shockingly simplistic view of how things work in ...
    Blog

    Learn how much more you'll pay under $20 restaurant minimum wage

    How Much Will Your Favorite Hamburger Cost After Minimum Wage Hike?

    Didn’t someone say that raising the minimum wage would hurt most those it is intended to help? Yes, yes they did. And it’s been said many times. Yet here we are in the just-begun era of the $20-an-hour minimum wage and residents in the low-income district of South Los Angeles ...
    Blog

    Read latest on California's budget crisis

    Governor Newsom’s Budget Crisis Is Déjà vu All Over Again

    When we last updated you on efforts by Gov. Newsom and legislative Democrats to close the state’s $73 billion budget deficit, Senate Democrats had proposed a $17.1 billion plan to “shrink the shortfall” – of which, just 19.3 percent were actual cuts. Just before the Legislature’s summer recess on March ...
    Blog

    Let the market decide the right number of parking spots

    Let the market decide the right number of parking spots By Kenneth Schrupp | April 5, 2024 First published in 2005, David Shoup’s “The High Cost of Free Parking” is, after nearly two decades, driving a national reconsideration of parking minimums. But while some cities from Austin to San Jose ...
    Blog

    Read about problems with government transportation planning

    Book Review: ‘Transit’s growth, decline and pending demise’

    Who said the following? “The basic objective of our nation’s transportation system must be to assure the availability of the fast, safe, and economical transportation services needed in a growing and changing economy. … This basic objective can and must be achieved primarily by continued reliance on unsubsidized privately owned ...
    Blog

    Read latest on corruption in local government

    Corruption, crime, and cover-ups

    The March 27 sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for his role in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme brings closure to years of high living off the backs of his investors in his online crypto trading platform FTX. Fraudsters like Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, Bernie Madoff, Jeff ...
    Blog

    Learn about the Biden budget plan

    President Biden’s Fiscal Illusions

    The President imagines that the federal budget is driving toward a fiscal cliff because tax revenues are too low, and the rich are not paying their fair share. Such accusations may make good political talking points, but they are demonstrably false. Let’s start with his vacuous accusation of tax fairness. ...
    Blog

    CAPITAL IDEAS: Hey, Californians, How Do You Like the Governor’s EV Mandate Now?

    A poll taken in the fall of 2022 found that 55% of registered California voters favored the state’s zero-emission vehicle mandate, which outlaws the sale of new fossil fuel-burning cars and light trucks beginning in 2035. Only 39% opposed it. While electric vehicles are being shunned in other states, EV ...
    Blog

    Read about latest anti-business mandate from Sacramento

    In California, You Can Self-Checkout Any Time You Want – For Now

    Self-checkout seems to have reached a peak. Some retailers are pulling back on the systems, apparently due to intentional and unintentional thefts, and there are signs that customers have grown weary of scanning their own purchases and waiting in long, slow lines while a single attendant tries to manage the ...
    Agriculture

    Read latest about war on agriculture

    Solution to CA’s farm loss is through proactively working with ag community

    The U.S. Census of Agriculture shows a distinct acceleration of farm losses between 2007 and 2022. Yet, farms are not altogether disappearing in California. According to census data released earlier this spring, there was a peak in the number of farms reported in California in 2007 with 81,033 recorded. In ...
    Blog

    Learn about Sacramento's latest anti-entrepreneurship bill

    ‘Right To Ignore Your Boss’ Bill Could Make Work-Life Balance Worse for Employees

    Haney told the Bay Area News Group that “smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work and home life,” and that “workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they are not being paid for 24 hours of work.” It’s a shockingly simplistic view of how things work in ...
    Blog

    Learn how much more you'll pay under $20 restaurant minimum wage

    How Much Will Your Favorite Hamburger Cost After Minimum Wage Hike?

    Didn’t someone say that raising the minimum wage would hurt most those it is intended to help? Yes, yes they did. And it’s been said many times. Yet here we are in the just-begun era of the $20-an-hour minimum wage and residents in the low-income district of South Los Angeles ...
    Blog

    Read latest on California's budget crisis

    Governor Newsom’s Budget Crisis Is Déjà vu All Over Again

    When we last updated you on efforts by Gov. Newsom and legislative Democrats to close the state’s $73 billion budget deficit, Senate Democrats had proposed a $17.1 billion plan to “shrink the shortfall” – of which, just 19.3 percent were actual cuts. Just before the Legislature’s summer recess on March ...
    Blog

    Let the market decide the right number of parking spots

    Let the market decide the right number of parking spots By Kenneth Schrupp | April 5, 2024 First published in 2005, David Shoup’s “The High Cost of Free Parking” is, after nearly two decades, driving a national reconsideration of parking minimums. But while some cities from Austin to San Jose ...
    Blog

    Read about problems with government transportation planning

    Book Review: ‘Transit’s growth, decline and pending demise’

    Who said the following? “The basic objective of our nation’s transportation system must be to assure the availability of the fast, safe, and economical transportation services needed in a growing and changing economy. … This basic objective can and must be achieved primarily by continued reliance on unsubsidized privately owned ...
    Blog

    Read latest on corruption in local government

    Corruption, crime, and cover-ups

    The March 27 sentencing of Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for his role in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme brings closure to years of high living off the backs of his investors in his online crypto trading platform FTX. Fraudsters like Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, Bernie Madoff, Jeff ...
    Blog

    Learn about the Biden budget plan

    President Biden’s Fiscal Illusions

    The President imagines that the federal budget is driving toward a fiscal cliff because tax revenues are too low, and the rich are not paying their fair share. Such accusations may make good political talking points, but they are demonstrably false. Let’s start with his vacuous accusation of tax fairness. ...
    Blog

    CAPITAL IDEAS: Hey, Californians, How Do You Like the Governor’s EV Mandate Now?

    A poll taken in the fall of 2022 found that 55% of registered California voters favored the state’s zero-emission vehicle mandate, which outlaws the sale of new fossil fuel-burning cars and light trucks beginning in 2035. Only 39% opposed it. While electric vehicles are being shunned in other states, EV ...
    Blog

    Read about latest anti-business mandate from Sacramento

    In California, You Can Self-Checkout Any Time You Want – For Now

    Self-checkout seems to have reached a peak. Some retailers are pulling back on the systems, apparently due to intentional and unintentional thefts, and there are signs that customers have grown weary of scanning their own purchases and waiting in long, slow lines while a single attendant tries to manage the ...
    Agriculture

    Read latest about war on agriculture

    Solution to CA’s farm loss is through proactively working with ag community

    The U.S. Census of Agriculture shows a distinct acceleration of farm losses between 2007 and 2022. Yet, farms are not altogether disappearing in California. According to census data released earlier this spring, there was a peak in the number of farms reported in California in 2007 with 81,033 recorded. In ...
    Scroll to Top