Author: Joe Mathews

For years, I’ve told children, newspaper editors, and other credulous people that I’m the Joe of Trader Joe’s. That’s a lie. But it’s true that

Never surrender the high ground to your enemies. Which means we ought to be wary of what the Russians might want with the high desert

I write this thank-you note because no corporation has done more than you to awaken the public to the challenges California faces, and it’s high

It’s hard to see the benefits of district elections.  There’s little evidence that switching city elections from at-large to by-district—as California cities have been forced

Republicans in California have their standards. They’d rather lose every election than win my vote. I’m not a Democrat. I’m an independent who has voted

California made history in its direct democracy in this decade, the 2010s. Our state had the fewest statewide ballot measures in modern history.  Ballotpedia found

Did da Vinci spray graffiti over the Mona Lisa? Did Hitchcock destroy reels of Vertigo? Of course not. So why are Republicans waging war against