In politics, what goes unmentioned is often more interesting than what is mentioned. That’s especially true of the California debate over public employee pensions. The
Conventional wisdom says that Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax initiative is doomed. Conventional wisdom says that that the other tax raising initiatives will hurt his measure.
When everyone in California’s journo-political elite — from Joel Fox to Peter Schrag — is criticizing something, that something deserves a close look. Such is
You hear all the time that California is the world’s eighth largest economy. You rarely hear that, if the state were a country, it would
The only problem with that UC Davis police officer’s pepper spray was his aim. He should have doused California voters — and the political and
When you look at the initiative process we have, it’s clear that the California Supreme Court made the right decision this week in the Prop
Do you think it’s too difficult to raise taxes in California? If you do, the problem is pretty clear: the state constitution. It’s full of
The notion of citizen-initiated legislation on a global scale has always been a pipe dream. But it may be closer than you think. One signal
The two items in this headline would seem to have nothing to do with each other. But they do. The logic of the ban on