This week California Governor Brown will host the historic global climate action summit with other global luminaries this week in San Francisco. The goal is
California has embarked on a bold experiment in education. Policy shifts like the new Common Core State Standards and the governor’s Local Control Funding Formula make local school districts
California has embodied the new frontier since the Gold Rush. Stag Hunt’s inaugural magazine gets in that pioneering spirit by exploring how we might build
What if the fuel for California’s next great Gold Rush lay buried within its governmental bureaucracy? Not through some policy or program mind you but
Below we show employment growth in Los Angles and San Francisco since 1990. Note LA County has added about 1 million residents over this period.
On this day, 164 years ago, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. In Carey McWilliams’ apt phrase, the ensuing Gold Rush
Barring a legislative miracle, the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn AB 27 has ended redevelopment as we know it in California. So rather than
There’s always a bit of a hangover
after an election. You never get exactly
the results you want, but culminating events like elections also beget
introspection and reflection. As the
sound and fury of campaign season dies down, we have the opportunity to look at
the broader historical context that has led to California’s dysfunctional
government and what this election really means.
We need to remember that California
is more than a state. It is a state of
mind defined by possibility. California
took America’s Dream of a better life and imbued it with the sense that not
just material opportunity – a good home, a good job, and the ability to provide
a better life for your kids – but really anything was possible on California’s
Golden shore.