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Tim Draper’s Latest ‘Three Californias’ Plan is not Acceptable

  • California
November 3, 2017January 3, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley tycoon who gave us the ‘Six Californias’ plan a couple of years ago, has come up now with a ‘Three Californias’ plan.  It is not acceptable in its current form. The main point of dividing […]

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Several Suggestions for the Democratic Party of California

  • California
March 29, 2017December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The Democratic Party of California has reason for complacency.  It is the only state level political party of significance.  It unites the majority communities of color with the creative class portion of the still powerful non-Hispanic white minority.  The tensions in […]

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California’s Trump-like Moment, 22 Years Before Trump: The Adventures of Pete Wilson

  • California
March 22, 2017December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The United States on the whole has seen a rather sudden pivot, or so it seemed, of ‘conservatism’ from a coalition of religious or moral conservatives, economic conservatives [the latter were split into ever lower taxes fiscal ‘conservatives’, and deficit […]

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Manhattan Beach Tries to Find Itself

  • California
February 27, 2017August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In California Development Report I recently saw a story [unfortunately inaccessible to those without an account], about Manhattan Beach and the regulations it was putting in place to define itself.  Manhattan Beach is at one and the same time a […]

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The ‘Single Family or Bust’ People Will Probably Leave Southern California, No Matter What Land Use Policy We Now Follow

  • California
September 15, 2016December 7, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A lot of people, especially families with children, would prefer a single-family home.  Of course they would, and I’m not going to find fault with that lifestyle as long as it’s not forced on everyone.  Perhaps they should be required […]

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The Religious Right Failed to See What Was Coming

  • Culture
August 29, 2016August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

We have repeated Francis Schaeffer’s warning about ‘personal peace and affluence’ often at Blue Kennel, but it’s time to do it again.  He declared, back about 1970, that the ‘Silent Majority’, a term Nixon had begun to use, was composed […]

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Polynesian Paralysis, or the Vetocracy at Work

  • Miscellaneous
February 15, 2016July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Among its other oddities, Hawaii has no water level travel between its islands.  If the inhabitants of four out of the five counties should wish to travel to Honolulu, they have to fly in a small plane and rent another […]

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Where in Southern California Could We Fit New Suburbs?

  • California
December 10, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

People like Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have argued, to some extent rightly, that the majority of Americans prefer a suburban environment; and even the younger Millennial generation, willing to live in more urban places during their single and cohabiting years, […]

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What Kevin Starr Doesn’t Get About Small Towns

  • Culture
July 9, 2014June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have been enjoying Kevin Starr’s volume in his cultural history series, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963.  It is a period of which I have some living memory, and I have heard of, or met, in […]

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Declining Hubs: A Good Location for Experimenting with High Speed Rail

  • California
May 17, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I stumbled recently on a page in Therichest.com listing seven airports in America that are declining in their status as hubs, and it is interesting that they seem to be concentrated in one region: the area between the Great Plains […]

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