Picking Senator Harris’ Replacement After Proposition 16’s Defeat
The suggestions of a replacement for California Senator Kamala Harris when she resigns to assume the office of Vice-President are piling up. Most come from interest groups with rationales that one of their own deserve the prized senate seat primarily based on the candidate’s identification with a demographic group. All this sounds contradictory in a […]
If You “Take Out California”
California may not need to declare independence from the Union. Leading Republicans may just kick us out. They’re already claiming we’re not real Americans, whose voting choices don’t matter. The latest person to remove California from the U.S. is Senator Mike Braun, Republican of Indiana, which I’m told is a smaller state somewhere in the […]
California Voters Approve Billions in Local Taxes and Borrowing
in March 2020, for the first time in a generation, Californian’s did not approve the overwhelming majority of new tax and bond proposals that were put before them. Out of 125 proposed local bonds, only 31 percent passed; out of 111 proposed local tax increases, only 41 percent passed. Early returns from the November 2020 […]
Maybe the San Fernando Valley Will Get Some Offices
Shortly after the coronavirus pandemic hit nearly eight months ago, businesses started questioning whether they would need as much office space going forward. But now, some are going further. They’re wondering if they need a headquarters office at all. In the Wall Street Journal last week, the chief executive of Freeport-McMoRan Inc. said the company […]
Biden In Charge. California In the Spotlight. Trump In Trouble?
We examine the possible march of Californians into the Biden administration. And we discuss contenders to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the Senate. Finally, we wonder where–and when–Trump will go. Nancy Boyarsky is the producer-director of Inside Golden State Politics.