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Lee OhanianHoover Institution |
In March 2023, Gavin Newsom announced that the state would help local governments address homelessness by providing funding for 1,200 “tiny...
Recently, Southern California Newsgroup financial columnist Jonathan Lansner asked how to fix California’s housing mess through a series of...
What Do Californians Owe the Homeless?
California’s One-Party State and Housing Subsidies for Undocumented Migrants
Kamala Harris announced her proposed housing plan last week. The policy will be expensive – perhaps as much as $500 billion - and will do much less...
Between January 2022 and June 2024, employment in US private businesses increased by about 7.32 million jobs. Of these 7.32 million jobs, about 5,400...
Kamala Harris’s Border Responsibilities and Results
Since 2019, California has spent about $24 billion on homelessness, but in this five-year period, homelessness increased by about 30,000, to more than...
Californians to Vote on Tougher Crime Bill, Despite Attempts to Quash It by State’s Political Leadership
A Different Perspective from Governor Newsom on California’s “State of the State”
Taxpayer Protection Denied Ballot Despite 71% of Californians Viewing Taxes as Too High
So Why Won’t Newsom Put His Foot on the Brakes?
I remember my first fish taco from Rubio’s Baja Grill. It was a game changer. Crispy fish, combined with a creamy sauce, cabbage, cilantro, onion,...
California’s budget went from an assumed $98 billion surplus, in which there was so much cash in state coffers that Gov. Gavin Newsom was giving...
UCLA Protests Were Not about Free Speech—and Could Have been Avoided
California’s Political Leadership Chooses Secrecy Over Transparency In The State’s Legislative Process
Last September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1287 into law, which includes a $20 per hour minimum wage for fast-food workers and...
Imagine the following scenario: You are a commercial developer. It is noon on a Sunday, and you are reviewing your bid for a major project before...
Last month, California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office, or LAO, which is the nonpartisan state department that advises California’s policymakers...
Bloomberg recently broke a story about a bizarre exemption from California’s new fast-food franchise regulations—which include a $20 minimum wage...
California’s New Fast-Food Law Shows How Bankrupt the State’s Regulatory Process Has Become
California has lost 366,000 jobs since February 2020. In that same period, the rest of the US economy has added over 5.4 million jobs. California jobs...
Newsom Wants to Add $6.4 Billion to California’s $1.6 Trillion Debt with Proposition 1
The likelihood that Beverly Hills voters will support incumbent George Gascón for Los Angeles County district attorney in next month’s primary...
In what can only be described as gross fiscal mismanagement, California must now deal with a state budget deficit of as much as $58 billion in the...
Depoliticizing Stanford, UCLA, and UC Berkeley’s Searches for New Leaders
I testified recently before the US House of Representatives Transportation Committee about California high-speed rail. I began, “As a Californian, I...
Last week’s Fox News debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom revealed several inconvenient truths about California and Gavin Newsom. One is...