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Driver’s Licenses for the Undocumented

  • California
January 26, 2013July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I actually favor the issuance of driver’s licenses to the undocumented.  They, however, should be of a distinctive marking.  But it gives us some control.  If an illegal immigrant drives without insurance, or if he attempts to apply the Fifth […]

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On the Inhabitants of LA and CA

  • California
December 24, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

From Derek Sivers, one of the best descriptions of Los Angeles life I’ve ever read, and a lot of it applies to Orange County, even though the OC is not so much a center of the entertainment industry.  [Before the […]

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California Steps Up Its Oil Drilling

  • California
December 21, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

People don”t associate California with the oil business nowadays, but anyone who has ever driven through Huntington Beach, Brea, Bakersfield, or a host of other places should know better.  There was a time in the early 20th century when California”s […]

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Why Do They Think Pennsylvania is a Swing State and We’re Not?

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October 13, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have seen it said that Pennsylvania is a ‘swing state’ in this election. Nobody maintains that California is. But I looked at the presidential electoral maps of the past, and I found that Dukakis, against Bush Senior, lost ten […]

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‘Streetcars’ vs. Light Rail

  • California
September 13, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Samuel L. Scheib, editor of Trip Planner magazine, argues here that so-called ‘streetcars’, trams which actually run in the street with the cars, are not so much ‘public transit’ in the manner of light rail as a tourist amenity and […]

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L.A. vs San Francisco: Who Runs California?

  • California
June 14, 2012January 29, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Zócalo wonders why the Bay Area, with half the population of the Los Angeles Basin, tends to dominate the state politically.  I don’t have a theory about that, but I have several suggestions. 1.  A lot of Southern Californians are immigrants, […]

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How The Tobacco Companies Should Spend Their Money

  • California
June 2, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Once again, in the debate over California’s Proposition 29, the tobacco companies seem to have all the money in the world, even though relatively few people smoke nowadays.  Under the circumstances, I don’t shed much of a tear for them. […]

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Three Californias? Integrating a Couple of Recent Proposals

  • California
April 5, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It has often been proposed to split California into two states.  In the past, these proposals generally agreed on dividing Northern California from Southern California; the cultural differential between the two was strong in the Kennedy years.  The reader may […]

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The Migrations of California

  • California
April 3, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have been accustomed recently to think of California as a place people migrate out of to the rest of the United States and that receives immigrants from abroad.  But apparently there are levels.  The Bay Area is so much […]

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Observations on California’s Political Geography

  • California
March 24, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A recent series of political maps from PPIC, Public Policy Institute of California, provides some fascinating information. One of the maps inflates or shrinks the various regions according to population; it makes clear why the Democratic Party dominates the state, […]

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