The true narrative is quite simple: “Progressive government” has failed comprehensively in CA, which has been on a spiral into incoherence and incompetence since Gov. Pete Wilson left office at the end of 1998.

They won’t know the story but will be looking for a narrative that somehow excuses the Governor, the Mayor and countless agencies. - Clarice Feldman 

• When east coast media elites opine on what is happened out here, ask them if they are familiar w/ either@shellenberger. Or me? (Hugh Hewett @hughhewitt) 
• He’s a lefty journalist from San Francisco and I am a conservative journalist and law professor who has lived (and worked as a land use lawyer) in Orange County from 1989 to 2016 and still winter here to teach Con Law.

Ask them is they know what the Coastal Commission is or does, or the CDF&G, the USFWS, Region 9 of US EPA, Cal EPA, CARB, AQMD or the Regional Water Control Board. 

They won’t. 

They won’t know the story but will be looking for a narrative that somehow excuses the Governor, the Mayor and countless agencies...
What has former and future President Trump been taking about for a decade when he’s lectured CA on water and fire? 

• The idiocy of the self-inflicted harm of CA’s powerful people. 

Trump was right. 

Quote - Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger
Some reporters and scientists are blaming climate change for the lack of rain in LA. It's ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years.