How is California doing these days? The answer may depend on whom you believe: Governor Brown or Blink-182? This summer has exposed a divide in
I spent much of my work time over the past six months running around South Los Angeles, for a Zocalo series on the region. To my
“I think we should be working toward free tuition. That may sound pretty radical, but that was in the original intention of the CSU system,
You can’t talk to people in Silicon Valley anymore. They don’t even speak our language. By that, I’m not referencing Mark Zuckerberg’s mediocre Mandarin or
The new Field Poll shows another price of the California’s top two scheme: voter discouragement. Field reports that 15 percent of likely voters in their
There are people who will tell you it’s your civic duty to educate yourself on all 17 measures on the November ballot, plus any other
“How can we save South Los Angeles?” is a tired question. It’s an artifact of previous decades when the region formerly called South Central was
If Donald Trump can’t kill the discredited cause of campaign finance reform, nothing will. Because the view of reformers – including those pushing reforms and
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi deserved to be fired. I was among the legions who urged that step be taken, right here in this space.