I left California 9 years ago. But the state is keeping my business hostage in bureaucracy hell
Editor's note: The following essay first appeared in City Journal . I was born in Sacramento in the 1980s. On long car trips to visit relatives in...
May 14, 2023
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Editor's note: The following essay first appeared in City Journal . I was born in Sacramento in the 1980s. On long car trips to visit relatives in Palm Desert , my family would sometimes stop to see the tar pits in Los Angeles known as La Brea. I remember silently taking in the re-creations of prehistoric mammals—mammoths, wolves, bison, lions, saber-toothed cats—trapped in the bubbling Gilsonite muck, with no hope of escape. Recently, I have had the same feeling: stuck, suffocated, and suspended in time.
Christopher Rufo