[Source: CalMatters] I’m not going to write about the “new normal” resulting from COVID-19. While the topic is ever-present, what dominates my time and energy is creating a predictable and positive business environment to help small businesses get back on their feet. Small businesses, particularly minority-owned small businesses, are the lifeblood of California’s economy. A Read More…
Category: California News
Prop 15 would be catastrophic for an already devastated economy
[Source: Lisa A. Bartlett, O.C. Board of Supervisors] Amid an unprecedented global pandemic that has had a devastating effect on our economy, and caused great financial hardship to millions of Californians, proponents of Prop 15 now want to impose even greater hardship on families and local businesses. How? By enacting the largest annual property tax Read More…
Calamities challenge California’s economic foundation
[Source: The New York Times] Businesses shuttered by the pandemic are slowly reopening, but technology complexes are quiet, their workers carrying on from home indefinitely. The smoke-filled skies had started to clear, but new fires have arrived in a fierce wildfire season that shows the intensifying effects of climate change. Now California and its $3 Read More…
Employment attorneys brace for major California law changes
[Source: Bloomberg Law] California enacted a slate of new laws on worker classification, Covid-19, family leave, and court issues that will affect how employment lawyers advise their clients on workplace compliance and litigate disputes. The measures come as the state grapples with a global pandemic, devastating wildfires, and a swelling racial justice movement, and employers Read More…
Governor Newsom announces California will phase out gasoline-powered cars
[Source: Office of the Governor] Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that he will aggressively move the state further away from its reliance on climate change-causing fossil fuels while retaining and creating jobs and spurring economic growth – he issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 and Read More…
Debunking the green energy illusion
[Source: Dalia Maeroff] Climate change is at the center of everyone’s attention nowadays, with California’s sky burning orange. One solution is dominating the conversation of fixing our planet’s climate — green energy. Green energy means to transition away from fossil fuels and rely on cleaner ways of generating energy without releasing greenhouse gases into the Read More…
Death throes for AB 5?
[Source: Fox and Hounds Daily] The exemption arrows have found their mark in the Achilles heel of AB 5, the controversial and highly contested worker classification law. On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2257 by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez adding many more exemptions to the law that now total over 100. Ironically, it was Gonzalez Read More…
California has a new clean air rule: what it costs and how it works
[Source: Sacramento Bee] The California Air Resources Board last week voted to enact a sweeping, complicated series of rules aimed at reducing the pollution output of heavy-duty diesel trucks. It’s air board’s second rule this year aimed at such vehicles, after the board voted in June to require manufacturers of diesel trucks and vans to transition Read More…
Extremist proposals will not help California’s economy get back on its feet
[Source: Fox&Hounds] It doesn’t take long reading this site to see how our society is absorbing three crises: COVID-19, the economic meltdown and the long-overdue move for racial equality. What those crises have wrought is job loss, overriding fear, educational disruption and in some cases, overblown rhetoric. We see that rhetoric surrounding radical environmental change Read More…