California’s High-Speed Rail: Slow, Expensive, and Bound for Cancellation
California’s high-speed-rail project is an enormous boondoggle — expensive, pointless, and instantly obsolescent.
The Minimum Wage Makes No Sense — Let’s Do It Anyway!
California’s minimum-wage law will hurt the poor and funnel taxpayers’ money to state employees.
California Cities: Calling Trees “Urban Forests” to Extract New Taxes
News from California that city governments are preparing to use the state’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions reduction law, passed in 2006, to raise revenue – for doing what they’ve been doing for ...
California’s Green Mirage
On April 19, Next 10, a California-based cheerleader for all things green, issued a press release announcing the publication of the 2012 California Green Innovation Index, their fourth in a ...
Texas vs. California, Revisited
It appears I struck a nerve a couple of weeks ago with “Texas vs. California: Why so many people are moving from the Golden State to the Lone Star State.”
My ...
Texas vs. California
One in five Americans calls California or Texas home. The two most populous states have a lot in common: a long coast, a sunny climate, a diverse population, plenty of ...
CIS and the Texas Immigrant-Job Myth
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) has released a detailed rejoinder to a well-publicized study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that made a remarkable claim: “Of jobs created in Texas ...