Citizens’ Climate Lobby thrived in Ventura County in 2021. Our two chapters, Ventura and Conejo Valley, conducted four lobbying meetings, published 37 letters and op-eds, grew our membership, secured an endorsement from the Oxnard City Council, and made over 350 contacts to legislators, all in support of stronger actions to…
PolicyEngine’s inaugural year was a substantial one for public policy: with variants continuing the lethal disruption of the coronavirus, tax and welfare responses remained prominent in discussion and policymaking across the world. When we launched in October, we did so with the mission to Make Everyone a Policymaker, aiming to…
Yesterday, The Times reported that UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering a number of tax cuts:
- Cutting the Income Tax basic rate from 20% to 19% in 2023, and then to 18% in 2024
- Scrapping the Income Tax additional rate of 45%, lowering the tax rate to 40% for income…
Tonight, the Oxnard City Council will discuss the critical problem of housing affordability. Thanks to our high housing costs, Stanford and PPIC estimate that one in four residents of Oxnard and Port Hueneme are in poverty, one of the highest rates in California.
To support their resolution, you can send an email and/or sign up for public comment by Tuesday at 3PM.
It’s crunch time on climate. Meeting President Biden’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030 would help us avert extreme global warming and demonstrate American leadership heading into the UN Climate Change Conference in two weeks, but we need legislative action to make it happen. …
Today we’re (re)launching PolicyEngine to give the public unprecedented insight into the tax and benefit system.
Do you know how much money you make? No, not the amount in your employment contract — how much you get to take home. What about how that would change if you took some time off, or if you got a raise? How about if your favorite (or least favorite)…
Last November, we endorsed nine pro-housing candidates for local office across Ventura County. Four of those won, including Carmen Ramirez in her race for County Supervisor. When Ramirez left her seat on the Oxnard City Council vacant to move to the Board of Supervisors, 15 applicants filed to be appointed…
Ventura County has one special election on November 2 of this year: Oxnard City Council District 2. Carmen Ramirez held the seat until she was elected to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors last November, at which point the Oxnard City Council appointed then-Parks Commissioner Gabe Teran in February. …
A public comment I delivered to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors today
Thank you Supervisors,
My name is Max Ghenis and I live in Oxnard. I’d like to tell you about my friend, Jim Pagels. Jim is 29, and after college, he worked as a writer before discovering a passion for economics, a passion we share. As a PhD student at the…
After asking each applicant about the housing crisis, most councilmembers voted for those least committed to solving it
On Saturday, the Ventura City Council held a special meeting to appoint someone to the seat of former District 4 Councilmember, now District Attorney, Erik Nasarenko, until the election in November 2022. …
