Will The Supreme Court Remake California Politics?
Like a bolt out of the blue the US Supreme Court has suddenly thrust front and center the most important question in a democracy: who should exercise political power. Should it be all the people, or should it just be those citizens qualified to vote? The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case out […]
Crippling the Initiative Process by Jacking Up Filing Fees
No one should be fooled — the Assembly bill passed to raise the filing fee for an initiative proposal to $8000 is an attempt to squash the initiative process. The argument that the fee has not been raised in over seventy years rings hollow when any on-line inflation calculator will tell you that inflation over […]
GOP Builds Infrastructure To Train Candidates, Keep Legislative Seats
If you’ve read or watched political news reports over the last several months, you might think Republicans are nearing extinction in California, and it’s unlikely conservative leaders will ever regain leadership in the Golden State. Public opinion research and registration data shows the GOP has a mountain to climb to regain confidence from voters, no […]
The Corinthian Colleges Debacle—And the Continued Shortcomings In Our Higher Ed System
In late April, Corinthian Colleges, administrator of the Everest College, WyoTech and Heald College campuses, abruptly closed its California sites, leaving more than 10,000 students out in the cold. As described by Chris Kirkham, most of the students engaged in Corinthian’s vocational classes find themselves with no clear path to training completion. The federal government […]
How the 2016 Senate Race Will Divide California
Are you a Kamala or a Loretta? Attorney General Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez—the two leading candidates for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat next year—confront Californians with a choice. But it’s not a choice about competing policies or political visions. Californians don’t have political arguments about what we believe anymore. Harris and Sanchez […]