Tonight’s Debate(s)
Debates drive polls, not the other way around. That’s why it was wrong for the Republican National Committee and Fox to average early and volatile polling to decide the ten top candidates for tonight’s debate. Polls that rotate sixteen ballot choices without any titles such as governor or senator favor the candidates dominating the recent news, especially […]
CA Business Roundtable Introduces Ad Opposed to Split Roll
A split roll property tax introduced in the Senate that raises property taxes on commercial property would damage the California economy and cost the state 400,000 jobs. The California Business Roundtable, a leading opponent of the proposed split roll property tax legislation (SCA 5), produced an online ad to educate voters about the truth behind […]
CalSTRS, CalPERS Deliver One-Two Punch to Pension Measure
After the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office recently put the proposed pension ballot measure attacking retirement security on the ropes with its finding that it would create “significant uncertainty,” the state’s top two pension systems may have delivered knockout punches this week. In letters to Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), chairman of the Assembly Committee on […]
California’s Scenic Highway 68 Is a Microcosm of the State’s Growing Inequality
California Highway 68 is a very short road, running just 24 miles across Monterey County from the cities of Pacific Grove and Monterey on the ocean to the inland city of Salinas. In today’s California, the path between great wealth and poverty is rarely very long. Californians often talk about the inequality between our regions—between […]