In December the California Department of Finance announced in this press release that the state grew more slowly in percentage terms than at any time since 1900. Yes, that’s 1900, not 1990. The July to July growth rate was 0.05 percent, down from 0.23 percent the previous year, also a Read more
“Regardless of the possible errors in this study, we have to conclude that prehistorically a large amount of California burned every year. From 1950-1999 the average annual area burned by wildfire in all vegetation types in California was approximately 102,000 ha/year. This amounts to 5.6 percent of what would have Read more
I am starting to see the signs. They are sprouting in my neighborhood against something called Measure A, which is designed to strengthen the role of the mayor in local government here in Sacramento. One of the signs is in the yard of my councilman, a hardworking public servant with Read more
The photograph above is of the protest I went to with my two teenage boys in late May. I’ve only been to the one protest so far, but like many, I’ve been doing some quiet thinking about the movement for racial justice now coursing through American society. To a large Read more
Paid sick leave was one of the very first policy issues to surface here in the US when in February it became clear to the public at large that we were facing a pandemic. This was right about the time when I decided to make a new beginning on prospericity, Read more