The Great Schools Squeeze
Don’t squeeze your kids too hard as you send them off to another school year, because the state of California is already squeezing your kids
Joe Mathews
August 20, 2018
Author: Joe Mathews
Connecting California Columnist and Editor, Zócalo Public Square, Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (UC Press, 2010)
The Global Climate Action Summit Makes a Big Fat Political Target
For the record, California – and the United States – need more global gatherings where we compare knowledge and experience on solving difficult problems. But
Joe Mathews
August 17, 2018
SB 311 Shows What’s Wrong With Transition to Marijuana Legalization
Marijuana legalization isn’t working for a simple reason: the new legal system doesn’t come with enforcement. That’s the paradox of legalization—it requires a new drug
Joe Mathews
August 16, 2018
Prop 10 Argues That the Disease Is the Cure
California’s local governments already have too many incentives not to create new housing, and too many tools to block it. The result is a massive
Joe Mathews
August 15, 2018
How 2 California Women Turned L.A. Pain Into National Influence
How can Californians rise from horrific local circumstances to national influence? Two recent books offer one answer: It may help to have grown up amid
Joe Mathews
August 13, 2018
Wishing Arnold Were Governor Right Now
Watching former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger take on President Trump, I find myself wishing he were governor again. That’s not a feeling that most Californians have.
Joe Mathews
August 10, 2018
The 2020 Census Could Be Garbage
President Trump’s next trick may be to make millions of Californians disappear, at least according to records. The Trump administration has begun an effort to
Joe Mathews
August 8, 2018
Nunes Attack on the Fresno Bee Shows His Weakness
The last refuge of a scoundrel is patriotism, Samuel Johnson famously said. Another refuge is beating up on the local newspaper. Congressman Devin Nunes’. Attacks
Joe Mathews
August 7, 2018
California’s 3 Time Zones?
Do you know what time it is, California? It’s time for new thinking about time, and time zones. By putting Proposition 7 on this November’s
Joe Mathews
August 6, 2018