Another Education Debate That’s Not About Education
How can you tell when there’s a big debate in California about education? When nobody’s talking about actual education. California education debates are always about formulas, not schools. Take the current back and forth over Prop 98. The governor’s office has provided a budget that includes certain moneys in the Prop 98 education funding guarantee. […]
59 Names That Should Live in Infamy: Special Interest Super-PAC Raised $620,200 to Sell Sales Tax Hike to Voters
When they talk about the entitlement class, put at the top of the list the unions, lawyers, lobbyists, businesses, real estate and billboard companies that contributed $620,200 to bamboozle the uninformed and gullible into voting for Proposition A, the sales tax hike on March 5. They are the shame of the city, greed merchants who […]
Graveyard or the Base (Part 1)
Between Tony Quinn’s statement of the problem on immigration and the Republican Party, “Republicans can’t count” and John Seiler’s rebuttal, “it’s about the base” lies a riddle that can only be solved through leadership. We’re doomed either by Quinn’s chilling demographics or by Seiler’s angry grasssroots. Real leaders need to step in. On Hispanic issues […]
Will Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” Help Women Advance in Our California Economy?
From the Imperial County through the Central Valley and north to Shasta, Del Norte and Modoc counties, and especially in the coastal regions of our state, Californians will soon hear more of Ms. Sheryl Sandberg. In the next week a massive public relation campaign will be launched to publicize Ms. Sandberg’s new book , Lean […]
Legal Question Hangs Over High Speed Rail Funding
On July 6, 2012, the Legislature passed with a bare majority of one vote, the initial construction appropriation bill for the High Speed Rail project. With Senator Darrell Steinberg and Senator Mark Leno assuming leadership, the bill was rushed through both legislative houses. This appropriation bill was first presented to the legislature on the afternoon […]