Borrowing money for infrastructure projects can be a good idea, but it can often become a sinkhole for taxpayers.
The California Environmental Quality Act has led to long delays, enormous costs, and special interests that use the process to stop projects they dislike.
Proposition 39's requirements aren't overly obtrusive, only unnecessary.
Bigger agencies, higher spending, and expanded workforces don't always make government more effective.
GOP's new mantra: "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
Newsom echoes former Gov. Jerry Brown and acts like Sacramento's last adult.
Measures to slow AI development are more likely to trigger human lawsuits against AI companies than accomplish anything useful.
Trump's zero-sum trade talk is wrongheaded and authoritarian.
The panic is pretty silly, since these facilities are necessary to power industries that power our economy and fund state budgets.
Pension changes passed in 2011 have saved California taxpayers from a fiscal crisis, but public sector unions are now pushing to undo them.
"If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging and sharing your movements without a warrant," warns the ACLU.
The real goal isn't to promote accuracy, but to encourage agitated conservatives to complain about historical references that make them uncomfortable.
Only in a capitalist world can we live free and prosperous lives, even if it means that we're expected to show up to work on time.
Constitutional limits on federal authority should not be partisan matters.
Facts don't care about the GOP's "crime wave" feelings.
California local governments of every size are crying poor as they struggle with budget shortfalls.
We should heed Alexis de Tocqueville's warning: "A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him."
Intellectual curiosity used to define the political right. Now, imbecility rules the day.
Matt Mahon tried to chart a reform-minded path, but too often he came across as a mushy moderate in an election that will be determined by partisans.
Conservatives want local control over housing policy, but they're happy to let the state restrict when local governments can raise taxes.
Any self-styled advocate for limited government should be furious about Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund, but few Republicans are willing to denounce it.
In this recent round, Republicans are entirely to blame. In the new MAGA-fied GOP, winning is everything, and there's no quarter given for concepts such as fairness.
The new rules will fast track clinical testing, but a far cry from legalization or decriminalization.
The commission has tormented property owners and localities ever since it was created in 1976. Finally, legislative and legal efforts are undoing some of its abuses.
After California made this same mistake in 1999, it took 12 years to dig out of the hole. Taxpayers footed the bill.
Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.
Instead of confronting the problems with the state's heavily regulated insurance market, lawmakers are looking for a scapegoat.
Tech companies that create social media apps should not be blamed for the complex mental issues of everyone who might use them.
There is no voting crisis that demands federal intervention.
California initiatives will fuel an already fiery November election, and the state's top-two primary might end up excluding Democrats in the governor's race.
Some MAGA peaceniks have seemingly transformed into neocons.
A transfer tax on high-value real estate transactions is reducing the number of homes on the market and limiting new construction.
The Second Amendment protects your right to carry a gun at a protest.
Thanks to a lack of hiring standards, purposeful federal policy, poor training, and a lack of accountability for bad behavior, ICE is eroding safety and liberty for all Americans.
Limited government means those in power can do limited damage to the rest of us.
Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.
The AI boom is showing the limits of our regulated monopoly model for generating electricity.
Huntington Beach's elected officials are pursuing performative MAGA policymaking and keep losing in the courts.
Is the party heading deeper into the right wing fever swamps?
The Trump administration's chest-pounding approach is costing lives and eroding freedoms.
America was not founded to be a theocracy and it should not strive to become one.
A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.
When the so-called "communist lunatic" and the so-called "fascist" find common ground, it means the country needs an intervention.
The accidental death of one cat in San Francisco is triggering calls for banning Waymo. That would be a huge mistake.
She's praised Nancy Pelosi, said Republicans aren't doing enough to make things affordable, and is generally making a lot of sense. That's weird, but also good.
Rent freezes will discourage construction, government-run grocery stores are a joke, and free buses will become roving homeless shelters.
Overly strict or poorly designed rules could slow beneficial uses of AI in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and public safety.
The federal cuts amount to little more than a rounding error in most state or big city budgets.
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