by Casey Fischl Bottled water consumption has steadily increased over the last few decades, reaching an all-time high in 2017 with 13.7 billion gallons of bottled water purchased in the United States. The consumption of bottled water has surpassed all other products in the beverage industry, including soda and beer. Read more…
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Communication at USC Price, spoke with the LATimes about California Governor Brown’s priorities. “He’s constructing the agenda for the next session. It feels a lot like Barack Obama’s last two years: ‘This is what I want, this is what I’m going to do.’ Read more…
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Communication at USC Price, spoke with Jessica Calefati from the San Jose Mercury News on California Governor Brown’s use of the veto in recent weeks to help set the agenda for this next year. “He’s trying to get the Legislature to focus on Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback If it were up to Timothy Draper, he would move all of Los Angeles County’s residents to a new state in the name of better government. Draper, a Menlo Park venture capitalist, is behind a much-ballyhooed initiative that would divide California into six states. This week Draper gathered Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback On January 1 of this year, the country’s most eagerly anticipated law took effect in Colorado. Starting on New Year’s Day, aficionados flocked to new stores where, for the first time in the nation’s history, marijuana was legally available for purchase to state residents. (Washington voters also approved Read more…
by Jeremy Loudenback It’s no secret that the polarization of the American political system has grown increasingly more pronounced in recent memory. And it’s not just limited to anecdotal evidence: 36 states are now dominated by a single political party, the highest number in 60 years. Republicans control 23 states (meaning Read more…
Bedrosian Center’s Shifting the Burden event was featured in a USC News post: by Matthew Kredell Representatives of county and city governments joined academic policy scholars on Feb. 10 at USC to begin a yearlong series of panel discussions exploring California’s realignment of services and funds in the areas of Read more…
Bedrosian Center / SoCal ASPA forum series Shifting the Burden is the kick-off event which begins a year-long series of panel discussions. Local and state government leaders and scholars will discuss how organizations are realigning the services they provide with funding sources that shift the cost burdens of service Read more…
SoCal ASPA forum series Public attention has increasingly focused on mounting public employee retiree costs in California as a significant driver of state and local government expenditures. A panel of public administrators and researchers will discuss the reforms proposed to address the pension crisis, including the state’s bipartisan Little Hoover Read more…