California Archive

Thoughts on the not-so-golden state of politics.

• Duplicity

  Duplicity at its finest… Modoc has the highest Republican registration of any county in California, it unfailingly elects anti-tax Republicans to office, and the vote here against last month’s ballot measure that would have raised a variety of taxes was one of the most lopsided in the state. And yet, per capita, Modoc County gets [...]

• California Parks, Use Fees, and Cost-Neutrality*

  Although the state of California is the seventh- or tenth-largest economy in the world, depending on when and what measure you read, and therefore the most important economy within the United States, and although the federal government has rescued investment banks, insurance companies and car manufacturers, as a result of behavior that all parties have [...]

• California Recall

  I have been holding back on this subject, as I waited for a few candidates to drop out, and the lawsuits and rulings to play out. In the recall, which I will be participating in with my vote, the Governor of California, Mr. Gray Davis (Gray is an awful name) will hold his job. Nothing [...]