It's the article's title, for sure, but it feels misleading to call a reduction in incentives from a successful program (rooftop solar generating 11% of California's power is amazing) a strike against the goals of that program.
LEDs/CCFLs being subsidized until consumers switched over to them (I know the story is more complex than this) made sense too.
Time the jerkiness well, and how can anyone tell which you are? An opportunistic jerk who otherwise cultivates a 'nice' reputation is going to attract the same kind of gossip as anyone else in a position of authority, no?
> “I hire them just like me: smart, poor, and want to be rich,” she quoted former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski as saying.
Some time later... "Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski says he stole out of pure greed"
( https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyco-kozlowski-release-id... )