Which Way, L.A.?
With Work to Be Done and Bond Money Raised, Why Not Spend It?
Governor Brown says President Obama should invest in pubic works to stimulate the economy. LA Times Columnist George Skelton says Brown should follow his own advice...
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenGovernor Brown says President Obama should invest in pubic works to stimulate the economy. LA Times Columnist George Skelton says Brown should follow his own advice. We ask the Governor's office and the State Senate leader why $9 billion in infrastructure bond money passed by the voters is sitting around and not being spent. Is it time for Brown to "kick butt?" Also, an independent, bipartisan voice for political reform — one of the last of its kind — goes out of business. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, is there a quick fix for America's broken economy?
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3 storiesWhere Is $9 Billion in Unused Bonds?
Governor Brown says, "Caution is not really the right path" when it comes to creating jobs and stimulating the economy. He wants President Obama to invest in sewers, schools and roads, just as Franklin Roosevelt did during the Great Depression.
Read the story17 minCenter for Governmental Studies Closes
For 28 years, the Center for Governmental Studies has been examining how public policy is made in California and how it can be made more democratic, with a small "d." Since the Watergate era, it's been one of the state's most successful, bipartisan institutions of political reform, advocating what former LA Times City Editor Bill Boyarsky…
Read the story9 minAre Higher Taxes the 'Price of Civilization?'
Democrats, Republicans, Tea Partiers and Wall Street Occupiers all agree that America needs more jobs, but they don't agree on how to create them. Republican presidential candidates will stage another debate in Las Vegas tomorrow, with most calling for creating jobs by cutting taxes and regulations to free up the private sector.
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