Where Did All the Voters Go in the Los Angeles City Council Special Election?
The hullabaloo around this week’s birth of Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge started me thinking about another British royal of the same name, King George III. Remember him? His abuse of power and tyrannical rule combined with colonists’ rejection of virtual representation sparked the American Revolution, giving birth to our representative democracy. After observing […]
Sunnyvale: Making Police and Fire Services Interchangeable
These are truly challenging times for local government. As cities are still adjusting to new a fiscal reality, not even sacred cows like police and fire departments are being spared from the budget knife. Police and fire protection oftentimes eat up the largest share of a city’s diminishing budget. By 2011, three years into the […]