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Portland Public Loos Are The Best

  • Culture
September 12, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Here’s an article from The Atlantic Cities explaining why Portland, Oregon’s, public loos are the best. In response to: “Why Portland’s Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed” by John Metcalfe at The Atlantic Cities

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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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Unintended Consequences of Arizona’s Clean Elections Act

  • Politics
July 18, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Conservatives oppose campaign finance reform of any kind, even when, as in Arizona, the Tea Party has been benefiting from it! Related: “Arizona conservatives scramble after campaign finance law’s defeat” by Nicholas Riccardi at LATimes.com

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Life in the Slow Lane

  • Politics
May 15, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Our infrastructure has been squeezed between resistance to raising taxes on the one hand, and welfare demands on the other. Related: “Life in the Slow Lane”  by The Economist

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L.C.B. says Brown’s Redevelopment Plan is Illegal

  • California
May 4, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was tempted to say horrible things about Legislative Counsel, but if the money were to go into the cities’ regular budget instead of the redevelopment slush fund, I would have no problem with that. Related “Legislative counsel says Brown’s […]

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Redevelopment and Housing

  • California
April 27, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a lot of worry that getting rid of redevelopment will get rid of the one affordable housing program we seem to have in California.  A quota of 20% of redevelopment land to be used for “affordable” housing was, […]

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Progressive Consumption Taxes

  • Politics
April 26, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I agree with Frank, not with Henderson.  I have a lot less problem with progressive consumption taxes on the rich than with progressive income taxes.  That way if the rich use their money constructively, for capital investment, saving, or philanthropy, […]

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Sex-selection Abortion In Asia

  • Culture
April 22, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ugly specter of sex-selection abortion is a reality in Asia, and unfortunately not just in China.  Modern technology has met old attitudes and made this possible.  It is legal here in the USA de facto, but not much practiced […]

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David Stockman, Again

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 17, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article, David Stockman, although both a hard-money man and a social liberal, comes out against continuing the G. W. Bush tax cuts! Read it to find out why. Related: “The Triumph of Politics Over Economics” by Nick Gillespie […]

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2011 is not 1995

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 16, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I confess that I was hoping that 2011 would be 1995.  After all, we had just climbed out of a serious recession in the earlier part of that decade – dwarfed by the more recent one of course, but big […]

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