News Summary

• Carl Danner writes to me with a political economy mystery.
• The California Public Utilities Commission announced a set of clean energy grants but only “for eligible organizations headquartered in ZIP Code 91326.” Danner: I smelled a payoff.
• It may be [a payoff], but the evidence supports a narrower claim: the Round 3 rules look unusually tailored to make Save Porter Ranch a likely recipient.
• That is suggestive because the legislative authorization itself does not appear to require this hyper-local restriction.