Schoolyard Tricks and the Education Budget: Queenie, Queenie, Where’s The Ball?

By Sheila Kuehl
Somehow, writing about the Governor’s initial budget for education made me think about schoolyard games. Is the money there or not? Is the state giving or taking away?   
Where’s the ball?
For me, schoolyard games always bega…

More on the Governor’s January Budget: Women and Children First (Under The Bus)

By Sheila Kuehl
In my last essay, I compared the poor families in California to an array of long-suffering silent movie heroines who were threatened by heartless landlords or mustachioed villains and inevitably rescued in the nick of time by the super…

Gov. Brown’s January Budget: The Tin Man Strikes Again

By Sheila Kuehl
Most people don’t know that L. Frank Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz books, was a populist with a passion for true American equality. Thanks to the MGM movie starring Judy Garland, most of Baum’s political overlay is lost to the gener…

Proposition 32: Corporate Billionaires’ Quest to Force Workers to Shut Up

By Bob BalgenorthState Building and Construction Trades Council
Apparently we union workers are far too successful at affecting public policy in California. Why else would corporate billionaires be gathering and spending huge campaign war chests, for t…

CA GOP Continues its Death Spiral, Seeks Help From Prop 32 Supporters

Brian Leubitz
CRP Chairman Tom Del Beccaro in SacramentoCalifornia Republican Party faces fiscal, organizing questions. Banks on Special Exemptions.The California Republican Party is in something of a desperate situation. They hold no statewide offices…