New, Long Term Ballot Initiative Strategy
The proponents of two propositions on the November ballot— yet to be voted on —have already filed follow up initiatives for the 2020 election. Authors of Proposition 5 to extend property tax benefits to seniors, the disabled, and to open the housing market and Proposition 6, the gas tax repeal, have authored new measures to […]
Tectonic Shifts in Orange County
Orange County has evolved from a Republican stronghold to a credible target of opportunity for the Democrats seeking to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November election. Until the most recent presidential election, Republican candidates had won in every top-of-the-ticket statewide race in Orange County for 20 years. In fact, the […]
The New Magna Charta
In Rome last week, I helped write a new Magna Charta. I led this effort during a Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, a free, public event I help run. The idea is that all the worry about declining democracy is really about democracy at the national level. But democracy, fundamentally, is not a national […]
Online Education Doesn’t Make Your Kids Weirdos
Public school did not work for my kids. After a great start in kindergarten, both of our children began to hate being at school, and having to go to school every day was turning them into disgruntled, angry, sad children who were beginning to show signs that their love of learning was being squashed. That […]