Author: Joe Mathews

$2,000 vs. $10 million

Democrats in the legislature have reduced the size of their tax on political participation; they want to increase the filing fee for ballot initiative only

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Are We Golden or Brown?

We live in a California dominated by one party. We live in a California where there is no real significant divide on big issues. And

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The LAO Is Getting Higher Ed Wrong

Recently, one of my weekly syndicated columns at Zocalo Public Square looked at the wrongheaded way Californians think about their own public university systems, particularly

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Del Beccaro Wins on Books

He doesn’t have much of a chance of winning in next year’s U.S. Senate elections. But if former California GOP chair Tom Del Beccaro can

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