Author: John Wildermuth

For those folks still saying California’s primary election changes aren’t doing a thing, take a look at the House vote to end the government shutdown.

Campaign finance is in the news again as the U.S. Supreme Court took another look last week at who should be allowed to get how

If at first you don’t succeed, be glad Jerry Brown is governor. In at least five cases this year, Brown has given legislators a mulligan,

No one can be a good legislator unless he is willing to give up the job. If hanging on to that seat in Sacramento or

The absolute best political compromise is one where even if everything goes wrong, there’s someone else out there to blame. Which brings us to the

Siskiyou County supervisors voted Tuesday to move toward seceding from California and looking to form a new state with neighboring counties in California and Oregon.

What part of “forthwith” doesn’t Darrell Steinberg understand? If there’s one thing the federal judges holding sway over California’s prison overcrowding lawsuit have been consistently

In California these days, decline-to-state doesn’t mean decline to play. The fastest-growing party in the state in recent years is made up of those voters