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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Peter Schrag
So the Republicans have formally thrown in the towel on their referendum to block use of the new state Senate maps drawn last year by the presumably non-partisan Citizens Redistricting Commission.
The main point of the referendum, the …
By Peter Schrag
It’s just a half-century since California was widely regarded as the nation’s cradle of kookiness. It was because of the sunshine, famously said Jesse Unruh, the “Big Daddy” speaker of the Assembly in the 1960s, that we grow so …