By Peter Schrag
The California Supreme Court last Friday decisively rebuffed the Republican attack on the new state Senate maps drawn by California’s new independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. But the way it was done could invite as many futu…
Archive of posts tagged 2010 Ballot Initiatives
On Redistricting: The Court Gets It Half Right
The GOP’s Withdrawal Symptom
Peter SchragCalifornia Republicans say they’ve collected enough signatures for their challenge to California’s new state Senate districts to put the issue on the June 2012 ballot. We’ll long debate whether the attack on the new districts is sheer…
Mercury Insurance’s $150,000 Down Payment on Raising Your Rates
By Doug HellerConsumer Watchdog
Mercury Insurance Chairmen George Joseph is launching another assault on consumer protections guaranteed by the 1988 insurance reform measure Proposition 103. The California Secretary of State reports that Chairmen…
‘Houston, San Joaquin Valley Has A Problem": Cars Causing Smog
By Alan Kandel
In California, or more precisely the San Joaquin Valley, our problem isn’t droughts, hurricanes or floods; it’s smog – at least right now it is. Beginning this year assessed will be an annual $29 million penalty, the money presumab…
California Supreme Court Hears Prop 8 Case
By Shannon Minter, Esq. National Center for Lesbian Rights
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court will hear arguments on an important question of California law that has arisen in Perry v. Brown, the ongoing federal challenge to Proposition 8, a 2008…
