Cutters
As for the second point of general agreement, Snyder said there’s “no question” that such funding cuts reduce access to the university and ultimately damage the quality of education provided there. Classes have gotten larger. There are fewer permanent faculty members. Less equipment. Enrollment will be reduced next year.
Powell, for one, is angry — not so much at the Senate or the administration as at the priorities of a society that let things get this bad. The citizens and legislators of California need to “confront the question of how much taxation is appropriate to this state,” he wrote, “[and] we need to answer in powerful and persuasive terms.” Powell feels that, when Californians passed Proposition 13 in 1978, severely limiting property taxes, they unwittingly set the stage for the state’s current mess. And it may not have been as frugal a measure as voters intended. “The enormity of the costs we are paying in lost opportunities and growing divides between the rich and poor has to be laid out for all to see,” he said.
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Comment / By Jonathan / March 18, 7:56 a.m.
“Powell feels that, when Californians passed Proposition 13 in 1978, severely limiting property taxes, they unwittingly set the stage for the state’s current mess”…
um… how about the pension Powell gets, lets get a report on that ratio, how about we look at the money that is actually spent per student in education as opposed to the unsustainable pensions that have been put in place for the auxillary support of that student.
Before you go around adding more problems to the housing market, and increasing taxes for families trying to get ahead in life, why dont we look at living within the budget like households have to? I am talking about state government as well as the CSU.
Comment / By Susan Edinger Marshall / March 18, 9:14 a.m.
Renaissance or Ruin in Range? It is especially bittersweet to consider the potential demise of Range Resource Science at HSU because of increasing trends of collaboration between working landscapes (ranchers and farmers), environmentalists (see California Rangeland Conservation Coalition, www.carangeland.org) and the sustainable food movement (see eatwild.org and foodalliance.org). Our alumni, some gainfully employed in Humboldt County, work with landowners and permittees to protect ecosystems. Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils are essential components of the Natural Resources suite of programs that attracts students to HSU.
Comment / By Edith Smith / March 19, 12:51 p.m.
I bought my house for 50k in ‘78. House prices for a comparable place have quadrupled. Even with 1% taxes supposedly from Prop 13 I pay over 1K/yr. The add on are from local voter approved fire and school mostly. First of all, Prop 13 revenues have well exceeded inflation. Second of all. I don’t make money any more. I’m old. I can’t afford big hikes in my property taxes. Raising Prop 13 will force people on fixed incomes out of their homes. This is coming from a total treehugging, old hippie, not some right wing anti-tax fogey.