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I’ve been a little bit grumpy for the past few days, after getting word that my local office is moving in a few months, and my commute will go from being a leisurely drive on back roads to a grind on nasty freeway traffic. However, at least I shouldn’t have to face the sort of nastiness [...] 
Some of you may be familiar with the mess facing the California state legislature. Thanks to years of ballot initiatives, the state faces certain spending mandates. The state is also limited in its ability to increase revenue, thanks to another ballot initiative requiring a supermajority for such votes and partisan politicians’ inability to play well [...] 
Longtime readers of my blog are probably aware that I’m of the opinion that the fairest way to resolve the same-gender marriage “issue” would be for government to get out of the marriage business. After all, if you believe that marriage is a religious sacrament….well, it’s rather arrogant for a government to attempt to impose [...]
ACLU press release (emphasis added): The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an [...] 
I have an ongoing project in which “expected relocations” is a variable. So I’ve been trying to keep tabs on word about just how bad the real estate market has become in certain portions of the country. One influence on my variable is easy enough to understand: how many people are underwater on their mortgages? Even [...] 
While I was tied up with work and travel, a couple of interesting stories made it into my reading pile. Together, they convince me that the concept of personal responsibility must be virtually illegal. First, I saw this article in the Wall Street Journal (subscriber link): Ian Perry, a Los Angeles city-council member, is spearheading legislation that [...]
I’ve been tied up all day with work and the latest appeal in my and my wife’s long fight with our health insurance company, so I’m late to the party on this one…but it seems that the California Supreme Court has found on a 4-3 vote that prohibiting same-gender marriage is unconstitutional. I’ll defer to [...] 
A couple of blogs I follow have mentioned that the May issue of Popular Mechanics includes a feature called, “10 Pieces of U.S. Infrastructure We Must Fix Now”. I’ve seen the feature mentioned in the context of Atlanta’s water shortage, but the entire list is actually rather interesting to me (not surprising, given [...] 
I’ve been getting a little queasy-feeling every time I drive past a gas station up here in Connecticut, and see diesel above $4/gallon. I suppose that I’d become downright nauseous if I were driving Highway 1 down California’s Central Coast. Seen in the New York Times: The reason for the consumer agita is that the [...] 
Seen in the San Francisco Chronicle: A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.[...] [T]he appeals court said state law has been clear since at least 1953, when [...] |
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