Today California is probably the most hostile state in the U.S. towards private business, and with the global warming act nearing implementation, things are going to get much worse.  But big changes could be closer than you think.
It isn’t easy to understand just how bad California’s business climate is until you talk to people from [...]

Assembly Bill 32, signed into law by California Governor Schwarzenegger in late 2006, took a big step closer to implementation last week with the release of the much anticipated “Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan.”

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AB32 California Global Warming Act
Climate Change Draft Scoping Plan - CARB July 2008
Two key pages in the 77 page document are [...]

Few would dispute the benefits unions have brought to society, especially through about the middle of the last century.  But the inspirational work of leaders from Mary Harris Jones to Cesar Chavez is used to obscure the reality in the 21st century - that in most states in America, unions in the public sector now exercise nearly absolute [...]

There are several reasons to question the inordinate emphasis on anthropogenic CO2 that continues to grip media, political and corporate elites.  Initially we were concerned because the pronouncements we were hearing in the media were almost always gross overstatements of reality.  Such observations lead us to publish debunking posts such as Antarctic Ice, Greenland’s Ice [...]

The ideals of unions are noble and pure.  The rights of the ordinary worker are indeed worth fighting for.  But there are unions and there are unions.
In the competitive private arena, unions that ask for too much will eventually derail their company’s financial success.  For example, unions negotiated defined retirement benefits decades ago with America’s major [...]

This is part two of a series of comments and responses posted on www.treelink.org’s listserve, as part of a discussion regarding whether or not it is futile to try to have a viable urban forest given the ”smart growth” trends towards ultra high density cities.  Part one is entitled “Smart Growth & Housing Prices.” 

Remember the natural evolution of low
density suburbs [...]

Although we’ve been pretty much as outspoken as one can be - given this supposedly is not our passion - we haven’t been outspoken enough.  In spite of the fact we believe in the ideals of unions, and their courageous legacy, we have criticized the pernicious influence of public sector unions over and over again, [...]