In state government, no good idea goes unpunished

SACRAMENTO – If you owned a company that was hemorrhaging cash and a local branch manager came up with a creative idea that could save oodles of money while significantly improving the quality of services for customers, you would be all over that in an instant. You would implement that idea in other branches and would give the manager a promotion.
If you were a government leader, you would do as California’s Legislature recently has done. You would try to quash the idea in its infanc