Steven Greenhut
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Tesla CEO and Twitter mogul Elon Musk tells it, I may be unproductive — despite the multiple articles and extensive work I produce each week — and immoral. That’s because, for the last decade, I’ve mostly…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Artificial intelligence is advancing with lightning speed. It’s not unreasonable, then, for most people to wonder whether it’s going to lead to something akin to the movie Terminator (Hint: the Skynet AI system blows up the world) —…
Populist conservatives have made their peace with big government and seem to spend their time these days fighting symbolic culture-war battles over such silliness as drag shows. Many of their “solutions” involve owning the libs by harnessing state power on…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Say what you will about Jerry Brown, but I’ll always think fondly of him because of his crowning achievement in his more-recent stint as governor. In 2011, he eliminated the state’s noxious, property-rights-destroying redevelopment agencies. He didn’t…
It’s no surprise that California officials have long struggled with basic economic concepts, but it is nevertheless surprising that they would embrace the latest plan to rework the way that the state’s utility companies charge customers for their electricity. Simply put,…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Anyone who closely watches the federal government — or most state governments, for that matter — might understandably come away wondering how these enormously powerful and expensive agencies became so incompetent. They can raise money at will and,…
California lost 500,000 people between 2020 and 2022, which is nearly the equivalent of the entire population of Sacramento, the state’s sixth-largest city. Actually, California didn’t lose these people. We know where they went. People die and give birth, and immigrants still…
SACRAMENTO — This week, California state officials and labor unions lost the latest battle in their five-year quest to destroy an emerging industry, obliterate tens of thousands of jobs, drive up prices, and eliminate safe transportation alternatives for consumers. We can…
SACRAMENTO — California’s weather patterns certainly have been unusual this winter, with the Sierra snowpack hitting record levels, massive flooding throughout the valleys, and slight smatterings of snow landing in such snow-averse places as Orange County. OK, some of my…
