California muddle: state must change course before it’s too late

The urban scholar Joel Kotkin has written that the spending policies of “progressives” in power in California have led to a flight of the middle class.

But, as Kotkin says in an article in the quarterly journal The City…the state must shift its priorities toward the infrastructure that helps sustain the middle class, such as investing in transportation, freeways and movement of goods, since the ports provide 20 percent of the jobs in Southern California.