Education Strategy Isn’t Working for Property Tax Increase Plan
Education is intended to be the cutting edge of the blade to alter Proposition 13 with a ballot initiative in next year’s election. However, the just released Public Policy Institute of California poll indicates that strategy may not be as sharp as anticipated by the measure’s backers. In attempting to raise billions of dollars for […]
Could California Enact Global Policy—by Ballot Initiative?
Right now, California’s critics dismiss the state’s efforts at fighting climate change by saying that one state can’t make global policy. That talking point is getting dated. Because ballot initiatives may be going global. I’m serving as co-president this week of the 2019 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, which is taking place in Taichung, […]
44-year political battle flares anew
California’s longest-running single-issue political battle, over limits on damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, is about to heat up again. Personal injury attorney Nick Rowley, who says his infant son’s lungs were “blown up” by medical malpractice, and Consumer Watchdog are proposing a 2020 ballot measure that would largely nullify California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA) that […]
Cancer Treatment Shouldn’t Bar Californians from the Right to Have a Baby; Gov. Newsom Must Sign SB 600
At the age of 22, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. I underwent chemotherapy to treat the cancer and save my life. Three years ago, at the age of 30, I was told that due to the effects of the chemo on my body, I was likely to be […]