Roads, highways, bridges, power plants, waterways, and buildings need to be significantly upgraded. However, the financial reality dictates that such ambitious infrastructure projects must be properly prioritized and funded within the bounds of a budget. Critical upgrades must be undertaken with transparency, accountability, and frugality at a time when the state is facing years of enormous deficits. Independent voters will be looking to balance economic feasibility with much-needed infrastructure enhancement over the next few years.
California hosts three of the the top five metropolitan areas for suspected mortgage fraud, according to a Treasury Department report released this week.
Business interests have long complained that California’s onerous rules and permit processes make it difficult for development to occur,
Cadiz Inc. of Los Angeles is proposing an ambitious, controversial water transfer and storage plan that, regardless of its advantages or problems, demonstrates the seriousness of California’s water problem.
The transition away from coal to renewable energy in Arizona is underway, as it has huge solar and wind energy potential waiting to be used.
Republican Congressman Devin Nunes from the 21st District in Central Valley is sponsoring HR 1837, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act.
NIMBY of course is an acronym for ‘Not In My Back Yard’ while BANANAs are even more extreme, saying ‘Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.’
The Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that decides water allotments for Central Valley farms, has released a bleak water forecast for the upcoming growing season.
