It’s Election Day: What we’re looking at
It’s decision day for candidate and policy issues in California and many questions that have surfaced over the last few months will be decided by the voters, which will give us a good read where California stands, at least for the time being. What we are wondering about? Will Proposition 13 stand up against a […]
Californians are Voting by the Millions Does Anyone Care?
It’s Election Day—or should we call it Election Month? And it might be longer still before we know the final outcome. Voter turnouts are already breaking all records nation-wide guaranteeing that by day’s end we may not know who will be the next President of the United States. We have already doubled the numbers from […]
California’s Proposition 16 will bring discrimination, not equality — and voters see right through it
Let’s say you’re a California voter, looking at Proposition 16 on the ballot, and you don’t like what you see in this proposed amendment to repeal the state’s constitutional ban on racial preferences. Don’t feel bad about it: according to the opinion polls, you’re not alone. And the problem isn’t with you. It’s that this […]
When plastic industry reform died in the state legislature this year, so did a piece of our democracy
The 2019-2020 California State Legislative Session ended on August 31 – and the Legislature’s failure to pass the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act (SB54/AB1080) left a particularly bad stench: – Not just because our state legislature failed to confront a state/national/global plastic pollution crisis, when it had well-crafted, visionary legislation to do […]