[Updated December 23, 2024.]
This is a compendium of what I’ve written about California over the years.
Electricity and Water: The Sorry State of California (April, 2017)
California Mandates $20 Minimum Wage For Fast-Food Workers
Newsom’s Office Screwed Up Big-Time (July 1, 2024)
Update On the $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage (July 12, 2024)
Yet Another California Minimum Wage Update (July 24, 2024)
Cato On the $20 Fast-Food Minimum Wage (July 31, 2024)
California Unions Want a Wage Increase for Fast-Food Workers (August 8, 2024)
Six More Victims of California’s $20 Minimum Wage (September 3, 2024)
California Fast Food Revisited: Seasonal Adjustment Matters. A Lot. (October 25, 2024)
Fire:
Who Caused the Camp Fire? (November, 2019)
Water:
California Water Management May Be Returning to Sanity (December, 2024)
An Update on Proposition 1 (August, 2018)
In Drought-Prone California Politicians and Bureaucrats Find Ways To Keep the State Thirsty
(May, 2018)
Electricity and Natural Gas
Berkeley Bans Natural Gas (July, 2019)
Berkley’s Natural Gas Ban Will Cost Consumers (July, 2019)
Electricity Mandate May Make Kitchens More Dangerous (May, 2020)
Banning Gas Kitchen Stoves (January, 2023)
A Message From Chef Gruel (October, 2021)
Solar Energy
California Moves to Increase Housing Prices With a Solar Mandate (May, 2018)
How California Guaranteed an Ongoing Black Market for Pot
California Shows How to Grow a Black Market Part 1 Retailers (August, 2019)
California Shows How to Grow a Black Market Part 2 Growers (October, 2019)
Marijuana in California: Bad News For the Santa Rita Hills (August, 2019)
Off the Wall Material
Tax Revenue and the Obergefell Decision (June, 2015)
New California Law Redefines When Police Are Allowed to Use Deadly Force (August, 2019)
Another Hidden California Tax Also Increases Auto Emissions (September, 2014)
Amazon’s Proposal to California (September, 2011)
California Mandates Free Lunches (December, 2019)
California vs Texas:
An Empirical Measurement of Residence Preferences (August, 2014)
Gov. Rick Perry Had a Message (February, 2013)
Education Issues
Schools Require Parent Participation (November, 2014)
Charter School Issues in Los Altos (September, 2013)
California Mandates Retirement Accounts – Managed by the State (July, 2013)
The California State University System
CSUEB Holds a Coronation for New President (September, 2012)
Just What the CSU Needs: Mandatory Ethnic Studies (October, 2019)
California Environmental Standards
Interesting Judicial Ruling re Commerce Clause and California Gasoline (December, 2011)
Local Issues
California Green Energy Scam (June, 2017)
Operation Choke Point and Marijuana Legalization (December, 2016)
Peter Navarro (UC Irvine alleged economist)
Who Is Peter Navarro? (April, 2017)
California Pension Systems
CalPERS Meets Reality (September, 2016)
