How Tibetan Buddhists Helped Me Seek Enlightenment at Howard Jarvis’s House
Revisiting the Former Home of the ‘Mad as Hell’ Tax Reformer as Another Fight Over Prop 13 Begins
Want to stop worrying so much about the future of California? Go and say a prayer at Howard Jarvis’s house.
No historic plaques mark the five-bedroom home at 515 N. Crescent Heights Blvd., which sits between West Hollywood and L.A.’s Miracle Mile. But this is where the famed anti-tax activist Jarvis lived, held meetings with Gov. Jerry Brown and other California players, and organized Proposition 13, 1978’s tax-limiting ballot initiative that still dominates California politics.
Another fall fight over Prop 13 is underway. The November ballot’s Proposition 15 proposes to lift Prop …
