Can The Progressive Wave Hold Water?
Votes are in from Coast to Coast and the Democratic left is feeling good. That said, the Democratic center is hardly in retreat. First of course, there were shockwaves when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic activist and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America who was running her first campaign, beat 10-term incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley […]
The Case for Situational Ethics in Sacramento Shoves, Hugs, and Noogies
I’m tempted to treat our state’s political players in Sacramento like I do my kids, and tell them to keep their hands to themselves. The problem is that doesn’t work with my kids, at least not for long. And it’s unlikely to deter Sacramento Politics, like it or not, is a tactile business, not a […]
Now He Belongs To The Ages
Sen. John McCain didn’t quite make it to the presidency but he might have worn the title easily had history gone another way. In an extraordinary lifetime of achievements that catapulted him from naval hero and prisoner of war to re-election to the Senate where he was serving his sixth term, McCain demonstrated the highest […]
Required Vote For Local Tax Increases In Legal Limbo
California’s booming economy is pouring many billions of additional tax dollars into state and local government treasuries. Nevertheless, the locals – cities and school districts, especially – find themselves in an ever-tightening fiscal vise because mandatory payments into public employee pension funds are growing much faster than revenues. That’s why dozens of them are asking […]