The Los Angeles Times: on Environment
Eric Garcetti:
No-sunset transportation sales tax to fund Los Angeles Metro
Traffic-fatigued Los Angeles County residents have long envied the cohesive transit available in the Bay Area. But that system offers warning signs too: Bay Area Rapid Transit has been hit by delays and damaged train cars and now needs
a ballot measure to pass just so it can repair its aging stations.Here in Los Angeles County, as we continue expanding the Metro system, we don't want to wind up like BART, which found the funds to build lines--but not to maintain them.
Metro needs a dedicated source of operating revenue to keep our trains moving.
That is a key reason why I will vote today as a member of the Metro Board of Directors to place the
Los Angeles Traffic Improvement Plan on the November ballot--funded by a "no sunset" transportation sales tax.
Source: 2016 Veepstakes: Eric Garcetti OpEd in Los Angeles Times
Jun 23, 2016
John Cox:
Environmental regs crush business
Cox called for reducing regulations and repealing and replacing a longtime state environmental law to decrease income inequality in California. "The inequality gap in this country is all about the crushing regulations, not least of which in
California is CEQA," or the California Environmental Quality Act, Cox said at the California Economic Summit in San Diego. The law "has basically crushed the ability of people to start their own business," he said.
Source: Los Angeles Times on 2018 California gubernatorial race
Nov 2, 2017
Neil Gorsuch:
Mother ran EPA; accused of being soft on polluters
Gorsuch does not have a record of strident comments that would fuel a confirmation fight. However, he knows firsthand the rough side of political battles. His mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, was a conservative
Colorado state legislator and a states' rights advocate when President Reagan chose her in 1981 to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
She was soon caught up in battles with environmentalists and Democrats on Capitol Hill for allegedly going soft on polluters. She was held in contempt of Congress in 1983 for refusing to turn over documents.
She said she had followed the legal advice of the Justice Department. Nonetheless, she was forced to resign in 1983 because the White House saw her as a political distraction. She returned to Colorado and died in 2004.
Source: Los Angeles Times on SCOTUS confirmation hearings
Jan 24, 2017
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