Opinion: California Public Employee Unions Seek End Run Around Landmark Prop. 13
It’s been 42 years since California voters sharply altered the state’s political dynamics by overwhelmingly…
Opinion: Prop. 15 Tax Increase Will Cripple Small Businesses Struggling Amid COVID
As California grapples with one of its worst economic crises in decades, there is little…
Opinion: California Attorney General Slants Ballot Measure Titles to Favor Democrats
California’s attorneys general, the state’s top legal officers, have developed a bad habit in recent…
Opinion: 2020 California Ballot Measures Largely Re-Fight Old Battles
Four months out from November’s election — and just three months until mail voting begins…
Union Initiative to Repeal Parts of Iconic Proposition 13 Qualifies for Ballot
A union-backed initiative that would result in higher property taxes for commercial and industrial property…
Opinion: Coronavirus Could Undermine Multiple California Ballot Measures
As the coronavirus pandemic was clobbering California — and the rest of the known world…
Late Ballots Fail to Rescue California School Bond Measure from Defeat
California voters have rejected Proposition 13, the only statewide measure on the March 3 ballot,…
Opinion: Rejection of Prop 13 for Schools Signals Resistance to New Taxes in California
Ballots from last week’s election are still being counted and it will be weeks before…
Poll Shows California School Bond Backers Have Some Selling to Do
California voters have resoundingly approved tens of billions of dollars in state school construction bonds over…
Opinion: ‘Split-Roll’ Attack on Prop. 13 Would be California’s Largest Tax Hike
Backers of an initiative to eliminate Proposition 13’s protections for some groups finally acknowledged something…
Opinion: Splitting the Tax Roll Would Threaten Shopping Centers Across California
If the California Schools and Local Community Funding Act passes in 2020, it could trigger…
Opinion: Rising California Tax Revenues Makes it Hard for Politicians to Seek More
It’s the good news that California’s political establishment—Democratic politicians and their allies in public-employee labor…
Despite Budget Surplus, California Legislators Promoting Variety of New Taxes
California is enjoying a projected $21.4 billion surplus. Three-quarters of the state believes any new revenue increase should be…
Opinion: Altering Prop. 13 Could Worsen California’s Housing Crisis
For four decades, Proposition 13, the property tax reform that passed in 1978, has been…