California desperately needs new ideas to help it out of its current mess.
But there is a danger that Californians will latch on to some bad ideas or half baked ideas or even good ideas that don’t solve the problem they’re meant to solve — as has happened in California repeatedly over the past thirty years
The [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2009’
California Dreaming .. of a Constitutional Convention
Television Too?
The Federal Trade Commission is the latest government agency to dive into the stormy media waters.
This fall it will begin holdings a series of workshops titled “Can the News Media Survive the Internet Age? Competition, Consumer Protection and First Amendment Perspectives.”
The FTC says it will look at not only the newspaper industry but the broadcast industry [...]
Off With Their Heads
I take little pleasure in the admission by Ted Costa, the architect of the recall election that said bye-bye to Gray Davis and installed Arnold Schwarzenegger in Sacramento in his place, that his efforts have backfired.
“We tried changing the governor, and things are even worse now,” he told the LA Weekly last week.
Not satisfied with [...]
Leaderless State
The outcome of Tuesday’s special election represents not only the defeat of the measures on the ballot, but the utter rejection of California’s political leadership.
In the 35 years I have lived in California I have never seen Californians from all regions of the state, from both political parties, as united on anything as they were [...]
No Pulitzer in Schwarzenegger’s Future
If California was not in such terrible financial shape, newspaper publishers could try to convince the Legislature and Gov. Schwarzenegger to give newspapers a tax break, along the lines of the one that Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire just signed into law.
Some pundits, including former Washington Post/Portfolio/New York magazine writer Lloyd Grove, are suggesting she [...]
