Those who are on their high horse about Senator Roderick Wright after his conviction on charges relating to his voting residency should dismount. Wright’s transgression,
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is President Barack Obama’s landmark legislative achievement. The White House decision to embrace the term Obamacare may be one of
As tough a week as it was for President Obama–playing international and Congressional bumper car– last week’s elections can’t have been too heartening for New
Governor Jerry Brown has demonstrated that experience and pragmatism can go a long way towards easing California back from the fiscal cliff. Now, there is
Before being elected to Congress in 1982, Rep. Howard Berman had a memorable ten year stint in the California Assembly culminating in a bruising speakership
Irrelevancy may not be so bad. California Republicans are still smarting from their ignominious meltdown at the polls on November 6, but for many Republican
California’s new election ground rules have turned Congressman Henry Waxman’s campaign for a 20th term in the House into an interesting bit of political theater
Critics of the initiative process, like me, are always pointing to the unintended consequences of well-intentioned measures. Proposition 13 centralized fiscal decision-making in Sacramento. Term
Nothing gets nastier than intra-party politics. Exhibit A is the runoff between Congressmen Howard Berman and Brad Sherman in the newly drawn 30th Congressional District.