Author: Joe Mathews

Every time I visit Sacramento – and I’ll be there again next week to debate election reform with Dan Schnur at the press club –

Supposedly, America holds to the principle of one-person, one vote. But we don’t live that principle in California. Here, some people effectively get more votes.

California’s good-government reformers experience nothing but victories. Just ask them. And so this spring’s record-low-turnout elections have occasioned not humble concession but – in a

In war, it’s good to have the high ground. And with his perch on top of the ballot, Jerry Brown has that it. But is

The Bridge Over the River Kwai is an oldie but a goodie – a film in which the late Alec Guinness (better known to the

Sacramento is a remarkably civil place (at least by the standards of this Angeleno). The community of staffers and consultants and journalists and others who

So let’s take bets: who gets to their exotic destination first? Space X, from Earth to Mars? Or the California high-speed rail project, from San

Molly Munger is right to bring suit to challenge manuevers that permitted Gov. Jerry Brown’s temporary tax initiative to leap up the ballot. Whether she

The rapid rise of Gov. Jerry Brown’s initiative up the ballot, via miracles and trailer bills, has left other initiatives in the dust. But we