How Arizona vs. United States Will Stop Democratic Immigration Efforts
Sorry, California Democrats, but you have already lost the battle over stopping President-elect Trump’s immigration policies. You lost five years ago when the state of Arizona tried, as sanctuary cities are doing now, to upend federal immigration laws, and the US Supreme Court said no. In 2010, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law SB […]
Is California About to Pick a Governor? Or a President?
California needs to take its next governor’s race more seriously. 2014’s contest between Jerry Brown and Neel Kashkari felt like an experiment in voter suppression—no one followed it, and few bothered to cast ballots. 2010’s race turned on meaningless issues around the wealth and housekeeper of Republican Meg Whitman. In 2018, the stakes are much […]
Jerry Brown, Donald Trump And Climate Change
Even well before the 45th U.S. president is sworn in on January 20th and the glittery Inaugural Balls have played host to a the gathering swarm of Trump celebrants and big-spenders, the New Yorker’s ascendancy as the free world’s leader is setting off alarm bells across the globe. There is no lack of doomsday scenarios as we […]
Fix Medi-Cal Or Lose UC and CSU
As a new Congress takes office, newspapers are filled with articles about the potential consequences for California of federal changes to Medicaid but not about how California’s existing version of Medicaid — known as “Medi-Cal” — is already in need of serious reform. Medi-Cal is a single-payer healthcare entitlement program covering 13.5 million low-income Californians. Funded jointly by the state and the […]