THOMAS ELIAS: Jon Coupal, president of the Jarvis group (named for the co-author of Proposition 13) wrote in November that the effort to remove the Taxpayer Protection Act from the
THOMAS ELIAS: The sheer volume of homeless in California – about 180,000 persons now sleep in public places every night across the state – has mandated a change in priorities.
THOMAS ELIAS: Make the PUC, like the insurance commissioner, elective as it is in some other states, like Texas. This could be done via the initiative process, just as it
California has had drought years and wet years, it’s had several “years of the woman” and the last few years might well have been called “years of housing increases,” at