Núñez’s bill taxing oil companies falls short

For Democrats in California the solution always involves raising taxes and fees. Never do they consider slowing the growth of state government, spending more efficiently, and not doing things the government shouldn’t be doing anyway. BTW, whenever Núñez and his pals talk about “the wealthy” he is referring to you and me… combined family income […]

Good Government

Here’s just one more reason why government should stay out of the business of providing services. If SF sunk these turbines in the Bay it is estimated, by the study that SF itself commissioned, that the cost per megawatt hour would be as much as eleven and a half times higher than PG&E’s retail electricity […]

Comcast Stacks F.C.C. Hearing

Consider this: One side in the debate actually went to the trouble of hiring people off the street to pack a Federal Communications Commission meeting yesterday—and effectively keep some of its opponents out of the room.

Broadband giant Comcast—the subject of the F.C.C. hearing on network neutrality at the Harvard Law School, […]

Great Moments in Government

Seriously, there are times when I think that here we are in the 21st century and THIS is the best we can do for leadership in public service.

This first story is about some hydrogen buses that the VTA (public transportation in San Jose, Santa Clara, etc.) has running. If I told you that new car […]

Lessig ‘08

Several people have asked me what my thoughts are on prospects of Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig running for Congress. As it happens, Lessig would be running in a special election for the vacated 12th Congressional District, which recently deceased Tom Lantos held for… well, forever it seems. The 12th district is my district so in […]

SF Muni Has Connected Bus, Still Runs Late

This is a case of the plumber fixing the jiggly handle on the toilet while the sink shoots out water from a broken fixture. No doubt the City, and Cisco, is proud of it’s new high tech bus but without question most passengers would prefer the buses simply run on time. The erratic performance is […]

Gov. Schwarzenegger orders more cuts to reduce state’s big deficit

Those proposals will likely resurface in coming weeks and months as Schwarzenegger and the Legislature hammer out a more than $140 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.[From Gov. Schwarzenegger orders more cuts to reduce state’s big deficit]

Build your own California budget, I did and in 2011/12 I […]

The Duplicity of Chavez

It’s hard to imagine the mental gymnastics that Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez must go through before declaring that the U.S. is engaging economic war, all the while benefiting himself from $100 a barrel oil. Even more curious is that despite $100 a barrel oil the country is literally going broke with out of control inflation […]

A lost laptop, a $54 million lawsuit

“It shouldn’t take a $54 million lawsuit to motivate Best Buy to address these issues,” she said. Her initial offer to settle for $2,100 has been withdrawn because her expenses have risen, including time spent filing a police report and consulting with lawyers about her case, she said. Concerns about identity theft also […]

Berkeley Backs Off On Banning Marines

At their Tuesday council meeting, leaders will discuss scrapping a letter that might be perceived as targeting the center or the Marines.

The letter said that the recruiting center was not welcome on Shattuck Avenue and that the Marines were uninvited and unwelcome intruders.[From Berkeley Backs Off On Banning Marines - News […]

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