Is California a Great Ideas Incubator, or an Insular Bubble?
To Be a Leader on National Issues, We Must Leave Our Smug, Protective Cocoon
California, do you want to be an incubator for great ideas—or a bubble that shuts out the world?
That’s the question Californians need to ask, as we simultaneously confront three big challenges: building a more sustainable economy and future; reckoning with our crisis-level shortages in housing and infrastructure; and protecting ourselves from a deranged Trump administration.
The bubble-or-incubator question is also the best way to understand the many hot fights being waged in the state legislature during this muggy Sacramento summer.
The recently concluded debate over legislation to extend California’s cap-and-trade …
