I am Not Trader Joe
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
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

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders have been bursting with self-congratulation about the new state school bond they’ve just placed on the March 2020
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

It’s become a dishonorable California tradition: state attorneys general draft titles and summaries for ballot initiatives that don’t pass the laugh test. Our current A.G.,
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