Court Funding
The courts got new money in the May budget revision and it was long overdue. Circumstances leading to the lack of funding over the years may have been due, in part, to a ballot measure I supported 21-years ago when you hitch that measure to the legislature’s desire to expand health and welfare programs while […]
Here’s the Promise I want to Hear From Kamala
(Editor’s Note: Joe Mathews will moderate a panel discussing “Will California Pick the Next President” in downtown Los Angeles tonight at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. Mathews will be joined by Dean of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Gary Segura, vice president of the American Association of Political Consultants Rose […]
Sports Talk and the Future Legacy of California Cities
Oakland has much to crow about today—–more specifically the Golden State Warriors who have played all of their championship seasons there and may be on the verge of another. This scrappy blue-collar city about which the writer, Gertrude Stein, once groused “there is no there, there,” is better known for teams that have made a […]
How Voters Can Transform California in One Election
Oxnard, California, wouldn’t immediately come to mind as the epicenter of a political revolution, but that’s exactly what it will be, if a small group of citizen activists succeed in putting not one, but five reforms in front of voters in the next major election. The citizens initiative has been available to Californians at the […]