
2016: The Year of the Initiative
The legislature is back in town this week but in the major policy issues department the legislature is likely to be a sideshow in what

The legislature is back in town this week but in the major policy issues department the legislature is likely to be a sideshow in what

I once invited Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom to speak to a class I teach at Pepperdine University with the admittedly too flippant remark, “What else

California politics are changing and there is no greater symbol of that change than state Senator Steve Glazer. Glazer represents a new division in state

It’s not even 2016 yet but the first debate over a probable initiative on the November 2016 ballot took place in Dana Point yesterday when

Christmas time brings out showings of the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life, in which an angel shows the main character, George Bailey, what life

In Paris, Gov. Jerry Brown gave every indication that government will continue to force businesses to respond in certain ways. He called it using the “coercive
In a feat of deft literary juggling, former Sacramento Bee editorial editor Peter Schrag has written a memoir with his father about their escape from
According to the recent Public Policy Institute of California poll, state residents like the initiative process but think too many initiatives appear on the ballot.
With a potentially long ballot of initiatives facing voters next November, the Public Policy Institute of California asked voters the importance of some of the