journalists – California Globe

Ringside: Twelve Scarcity Enabling Laws to Scrap

February 13, 2025 7:30 amFebruary 13, 2025 7:31 am

Last week, as a representative of the California Policy Center, I had the opportunity to testify before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee at a hearing on the topic of “California Fires and the Consequences of Overregulation.” While my remarks...

Political Pointillism: Step Back and See Everything

September 16, 2024 8:42 amSeptember 16, 2024 8:43 am

If you happen to be at the Art Institute of Chicago, you can see Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. If you are not in Chicago, here’s the painting. Anyway, you’ve seen...

Ringside: How to Achieve Water Abundance in California

August 8, 2024 7:00 amAugust 8, 2024 7:01 am

A study released in May, The Magnitude of California’s Water Challenges, anticipated annual statewide water supply losses in the coming decades as follows: ending groundwater overdraft 2-3 million acre-feet (MAF), less from the Colorado River 0.5-0.8 MAF, climate change 1-3 MAF,...

The Depersonalization of Reporting

April 3, 2024 2:24 pm

The news is not made in the newsroom. That is a true statement. A former editor worried when he saw too many reporters at their desks in the middle of the day and, like a mother telling her kids to drop...

Ringside: California is Hardly Harvesting the Deluge

February 8, 2024 2:55 amFebruary 8, 2024 11:15 am

A historic barrage of atmospheric rivers hit California. Across the Sierra Nevada and down through the foothills into the valley, rivers turned into raging torrents, overflowing their banks and flooding entire communities. California’s Central Valley turned into an inland sea,...

The Abundance Choice, Part 12: Numbers Don’t Lie

June 7, 2022 2:30 amJune 7, 2022 4:13 pm

Scope insensitivity happens whenever a statistic has huge emotional impact but in reality has little relevance to the issues and challenges it purports to illuminate. It is scope insensitivity that makes conscientious Californians willing to put a bucket in their shower....

AB 5 ‘Fix:’ New Exemptions Added to California’s Independent Contractor Law

September 14, 2020 2:20 pmSeptember 15, 2020 11:31 am

As many are aware, Assembly Bill 2257, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on September 4 as Chapter 38. As an urgency measure, the statute took effect immediately. AB 2257 repealed Labor Code Section...