Author: Joe Mathews

By Bigfoot (as told to Joe Mathews) I’m so famous for keeping a low profile that some people doubt my existence. So I’m here to

Members of state commissions are dumb enough when they talk to people. Keeping them apart from conversations won’t make them any smarter. That basic insight

The top-two system was supposed to produce new political competition. Its first big test in a statewide race – the U.S. Senate runoff between Kamala

She calls him Eduardo. He calls her Mrs. Pavley. And together they epitomize big changes within the world-renowned California movement to fight climate change. She

I pulled into Arcata one August evening, after a long drive from Fort Bragg, and was greeted by a front page banner headline in the

It’s the word of the summer: Victoriotic. You won’t find it in the Oxford English Dictionary, or Merriam-Webster’s, at least not yet. It began its life

The California Republican Party has now lost something else: its ability to thank people acting in its best interests. Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for

The high likelihood of another Clinton presidency could scramble California politics. A new administration will need to be looking for new talent—Obama folks are tired,