PPIC CA Poll Shows Tight Race for Popular Vote Among Democrats, but Who is Going to Get the Delegates?
How many delegates will the Democratic presidential candidates win in California’s March primary? It’s difficult to tell with early polling because the Democrats have a complex formula for securing delegates to their national convention and statewide poll numbers are more general in nature. The Public Policy Institute of California’s latest poll shows a tight race […]
The LA Clippers Become a Team of California’s Edges
Pro sports finally has a team that is built on the foundation of California’s edges. While basketball’s L.A. Lakers get the most publicity, the new-look Los Angeles Clippers have transformed themselves in a way that says something about where California is going. During the recently concluded free agent period, the Clippers managed to acquire two […]
CalPERS loss triggers more debt payment reform
Investments earning 6.7 percent during the fiscal year that ended June 30 might seem like a good return, particularly after an alarming stock market drop at the end of last year. But for CalPERS it’s a loss that creates new pension debt. The big pension system currently needs earnings of at least 7 percent to […]
The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them
When there is a general change in conditions, it is as if the entire creation had changed, and the whole world altered. —Ibn Khaldun, 14th-century Arab historian Congressional posturing about tech firms may have quieted for the moment, but the existential crisis that these firms are creating remains as now unchecked. Even faced with opposition […]