As Occupy Wall Street supporters seek to gain more traction for their movement to challenge the nation’s biggest financial institutions, a new Gallup survey finds that Americans are more than twice as likely to blame the federal government for the poor U.S. economy than its financial intitutions by a margin of 64% to 30%.
The Solar Energy Industries Association has just rained on California’s renewable energy photo voltaic (PV) parade with the distressing news (PDF) that New Jersey’s commercial PV projects now exceed California’s, and that they are now the hottest and biggest market in the US for commercial PV.
Occupy Wall Street, the nationwide protest movement inspired by the ongoing demonstration in downtown Manhattan, invites comparison with the Tea Party movement, which took the nation by storm in early 2009. The question is, what can Occupy Wall Street learn from the Tea Party movement?
Even as it dismissed marijuana as having questionable medical value, the California Medical Association adopted a position urging the legalization of marijuana at its recent annual meeting.
Most state projects for High Speed Rail (HSR), including California, assume they will get major funding from the federal government. This is no longer true.
With this month marking the one hundredth anniversary of California adopting its initiative process, a Field Poll released Thursday hints that voters feel more disconnected from the state ballot initiative process than in the past- as well as from their elected representatives.
“Term limits are to citizens what across-the-board spending cuts are to politicians. Both cases discourage responsible thought on the part of the participants.” once wrote Michael Herman in The Los Angeles Times back in 1996.
