Nathan Fletcher’s Next 5 Acts
“Ralph Waldo Emerson had a famous saying, ‘Life is a journey, not a destination.’” – Nathan Fletcher on Facebook. MARCH 2012: San Diego mayoral candidate Nathan Fletcher left the Republican party, declaring that he felt more at home as an independent. The change was gradual, coming nearly three weeks after he sought a GOP political […]
Schwarzenegger Institute Discussion: Making Government Work
According to noted California historian Kevin Starr, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s greatest achievement as governor was political reform. The theme of a USC Schwarzenegger Institute event last week featuring the former governor, MSNBC political commentator Chris Mathews and Starr was fixing dysfunctional government – whether in Washington or Sacramento. Starr suggested that Schwarzenegger had important accomplishments as […]
The ‘Great State’ of San Francisco
The public stock offering by Twitter reflects not only the current bubble in social media stocks, but also the continuing shift in both economic and political power away from Southern California to the San Francisco Bay Area, home to less than one in five state residents. Not since the late 19th century, when San Francisco […]
Should L.A. Be California’s Capitol
One thing that unites Americans, pretty much wherever they are from, is the conviction that their own state is singularly corrupt. Most states, if not all, have their harrowing stories of arrested governors or legislators, and local political folklore is filled with hair-raising corruption scandals. Just in the past few weeks, in California, State Senator […]