Feinstein’s Stand and “Lower-the-Voting-Age” Bill
Watching the young people challenging Senator Dianne Feinstein on the New Green Deal legislation with the environmental group that brought them to the senator’s office, the issue of lowering the voting age comes to mind. A bill to lower the voting age to 17 in California, ACA 8, was introduced once again by Assemblyman Evan […]
How Many Bills Will Governor Newsom Sign?
February 22 was the deadline for the introduction of bills for consideration during the 2019 California Legislative Session. A total of 2,576 bills were introduced by the deadline. There are about 1,800 Assembly Bills and over 775 Senate Bills that were introduced. This is a higher number than has been introduced in more than half […]
The Beto Factor
One of the most intriguing story lines of the coming Presidential campaign season is the emerging confluence between the rising tide of Latino voter influence and Beto O’Rourke’s fortunes. The trajectory of these two story lines will lead to a combustible finale on Primary day in California and Texas, March 3, 2020. On that date […]
Fresno Has a Message San Francisco Needs to Hear
Fresno? Like Harold Lloyd hanging from a building clock, this was once a city that only made news for its tenuous grip on financial solvency. No longer. Now, Fresno is the fifth-best-managed city in the nation, according to the recently released Financial State of the Cities report from Truth in Accounting.
CA GOP’s New Leader
That hissing emanating from Sacramento is the sound of the entire California Republican Party establishment breathing a sigh of relief. At the party’s weekend convention, state GOP delegates selected Jessica Patterson, a millennial Latina with a lengthy resume as a behind-the-scenes party operator, as their new chair.