A time bomb that could bring major changes to California politics has been set in place and is likely to become explosive before the next presidential election.
Obscure and a Longshot, but Here Is a Way to Make California Count Again
Back in 1948, when most of America woke up the day after the presidential election and learned to their surprise Harry Truman had defeated Thomas Dewey, California counted. It was only because of this state’s late-reporting vote that Truman won out.
Prop. 32 Loss Shows Voters Want a Level Playing Field
If there was one big reason why “paycheck protection,” on Tuesday’s ballot as Prop. 32, failed for the third time in the last 16 years, it was this: The concept by itself is simply unfair.
Differences Between Red and Blue States: Meaningful or Junk?
“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states,” Barack Obama famously observed in 2004. “But I’ve got news for them: There’s the United States of America.”
Absurd and Wrong – Customers Being Billed for Utility Companies’ Many Failures
When a car company blunders by installing, say, a power window switch that might catch fire, it issues a recall and fixes – for free – as many as 2.5 million cars. Toyota issued precisely such a recall notice this fall, the company paying heavily for its mistake.
Minor Political Parties _ They Just Get in the Way
As the fall election season nears its welcome end, a few people and parties are missing, at least in California: The candidates of the Green, Libertarian, American Independent and Peace and Freedom parties.
Now Here Is a Way Democrats May Regain Control of the House
Democrats have dreamed all fall of making a huge Congressional comeback and reinstalling San Francisco’s Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
How Important Is Wording in a Ballot Measure? Meaningless or Critical?
The strangest of all this fall’s intense initiative battles may be the small-money one being waged over Prop. 31, whose innocuous title (“State Budget. State and Local Government. Initiative constitutional amendment and statute”) gives only a faint clue as to what it’s about.
The ‘Onesidedness’ of Prop. 32 Is Mourned. Could Hurt the Middle Class.
Businesses are shying away from backing Prop. 32, the latest Republican revival of the so-called “paycheck protection” plan for emasculating the political efforts of all labor unions.
Prop. 36 Could Free 3,000 Tame (?) Convicts. But Which 3,000?
On the surface, Prop. 36 on the fall ballot seems as if it should be an absolute slam-dunk. That’s the initiative seeking to change California’s landmark Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out law, the 1994 measure imposing an automatic 25-to-life sentence on most three-time felons.