Fox & Hounds Named a Top State Blog by the Washington Post
The Washington Post’s “The Fix” column named Fox and Hounds a top state blog for a second time. Columnist Chris Cillizza assesses political blogs from all the states every couple of years and names those he considers the best in each state. Congratulations to Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts at CalBuzz and Scott Lay at […]
What Immigration Reform will Look Like
Slowly but surely the biggest political story of 2013 is taking shape: passage of comprehensive immigration reform. A visit to Sacramento last week by Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), the third ranking House Republican, told us a lot about what the final product will look like. Immigration reform has five working parts, and getting them all […]
Scoring the L.A. Election
With preliminary counts in from the Los Angeles election, it appears that about 84% of the registered voters in the city don’t care who becomes the city’s next mayor. The voter turnout was a paltry 16% (just under 321,000 votes out of 1.8 million registered voters), slightly down from the last mayoral election when Antonio […]
LA Mayor’s Race as Example of California Dysfunction
LA is a city of 4 million people. In an election for the mayor of such a place, you would think that a wide variety of voices would count. In reality, few do. Even in such a big city, a few small players dominate the political contest. The most powerful of these are public employees […]