White Voters: California’s Soon to be Second Largest Ethnic Group may Hold Key to the Future
On January 17th the Leadership California Institute held a viewing of the PBS Election Special “Race 2012” that examined the role of race in the presidential campaign. While it’s now common knowledge that race played a critical role in determining President Obama’s re-election and Mitt Romney’s defeat, the bigger question is, what does a racially […]
Gov. Dukakis Bullish on California
Former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic Party presidential nominee, Michael Dukakis says the results of November’s election will turn the country and the state of California in a positive direction. Dukakis is teaching the winter quarter at UCLA, as he has for 18 years, and dropped by the offices of public affairs consulting firm, Cerrell […]
Who Stole Bohemia?
(This is a longer version of an essay that first appeared last Friday, Jan 25, in the San Francisco Chronicle opinion section.) San Francisco is being taken over by technology workers; its creative culture replaced by a culture of money; its bohemia replaced by a tech conformity. That’s the view put forward recently by former […]
California Republicans—The Education Party
Republican assembly leader Connie Conway announced recently two new education bills, AB 67 and AB 51 that are an important and exciting move in the right direction. AB 67— co-authored with Assemblyman Jeff Gorell of Camarillo freezes tuition at all California public colleges and universities over the next seven years while Proposition 30 tax increases […]