by Bill Scher | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Tenacity and flexibility is helping California workers get a raise. Despite labor activists having won an hourly minimum wage increase to $10 in the state three years ago, and despite the reluctance for another raise from Gov. Jerry Brown, a compromise between the...
by Bill Scher | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Karl Rove is making sense. In his Wall Street Journal column, Rove makes the mathematically accurate point that Donald Trump has no claim to the Republican nomination if he goes to the convention with only a plurality of delegates and not a majority. A majority, The...
by Bill Scher | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016
Great America PAC just dropped $1 million on a TV ad touting Donald Trump as a "unifier." What's important is not the disingenuousness of the message, but the source. It's a super PAC ad. And Donald Trump claims to disavow all super PACs. In October he said: "I am...
by Bill Scher | Mar 21, 2016 | Blog, Climate
We in America do a poor job chronicling what works and building on success. So kudos to Mother Jones and its reporter Gabriel Kahn for covering how California and its governor Jerry Brown have created a template for cutting carbon emissions, creating green jobs and...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The good people of Politico Magazine asked me to sketch out how Donald Trump could beat Hillary Clinton (and asked a conservative to show how Clinton could beat Trump.) I gave it my level best but the thought experiment shows the steep climb Trump faces. Here's the...
