Wayne Lusvardi, Author at California Globe

Biden’s ‘Burb Blockbusting’ Program Defeated in CA in 2012

July 13, 2020 11:57 amJuly 13, 2020 1:11 pm

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has a “housing plan” to dissolve single-family residential zoning in California and elsewhere, robbing city budgets of suburbs, and transferring those funds to poorer (“sanctuary”) cities. In essence, suburbs would be annexed into nearby large...

California’s Cap and Trade Runs Out of Emissions….and Money for Pet Political Projects

July 9, 2020 11:47 amJuly 9, 2020 12:04 pm

“Be careful what you wish for. You might get it” said the proverbial Aesop (260 B.C.) in one of his ancient Greek fables. Something like this is playing out with the California Legislature that is getting just what it said...

California Eviction Ban Backstory Reveals No Separation of Powers

July 6, 2020 2:06 amJuly 7, 2020 12:15 pm

The front story in the mainstream media regarding Gov. Newsom’s ban on residential evictions — Coronavirus Emergency Executive Order N-28-20 — is that his appointed Judicial Council has extended the ban past the initial 90 days until August 3. However,...

Will Green Microgrids Reduce Deadly Fires and Brownouts?

June 29, 2020 12:20 pmJune 29, 2020 1:07 pm

92 percent of firestorms in California are not caused by downed power lines. The California Public Utilities Commission by law restricts implementation of the safest, cheapest and fastest option of mobile natural gas power plants to lessen the risk...

Gov. Newsom’s Pea Shell Game Budget Tricks

June 25, 2020 4:04 amJune 25, 2020 4:09 am

California’s budget is balanced only on the assumption that Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillions bail-out is approved by Congress, including funding to bail out pensions and state operating costs. Just as in a pea shell game, there is no way to...

Citizen Power: Masks Off and Health Director Out in OC

June 19, 2020 10:19 amJuly 3, 2020 10:15 am

If you read the myriad of misleading online newspaper headlines in California you would be led to believe that Gov. Newsom’s new “order” that masks must be worn outdoors is an enforceable state law (see here, here, here, here, here)....

What Really Matters to Black Lives in California is Fleeing Big Democrat Cities

June 17, 2020 11:01 amJune 17, 2020 11:14 am

The current BLM Movement is a Hollywood produced reality-TV movie meant to scare upwardly mobile Blacks in suburbia back to the Democrat plantation. While the media feeds us Hollywood staged scenes of Black Lives Matter rioters, together with white...