Thomas D. Elias

The more foreign and out-of-state students register at the University of California and the higher tuition and fees there are pushed, the more legitimate it becomes for taxpayers who built and still largely fund the 10-campus system to wonder who it will belong to in the future.

Neither Prop. 28 nor Prop. 29 on Tuesday’s ballot aroused any significant emotion. Maybe that is why the limited proposition action in this primary resulted in one smashing victory and one very close call where 29 continues to trail with considerable counting to come.

The results are now in, and yesterday’s primary election appears to have given voters exactly what they wanted: a whole bunch of fall runoff contests that figure to be decided not by extreme partisans of the left or right, but rather by moderate voters occupying some kind of middle ground.

Here’s the situation: Tens of millions of state tax dollars are going to billion-dollar corporations – but only with approval from other billion-dollar corporations – at the same time Gov. Brown maintains state government is flat broke and needs billions more in new taxes..

From the moment Gov. Brown announced his latest budget revision proposal, complaints poured in both from his political enemies and some interests that usually have supported him.

The harm that California’s extremely short legislative term limits have done never has been more obvious and extreme than today.

Millions of dollars in “hydrogen highway” grants by a state commission are drawing cries of favoritism and collusion as they seem to guarantee that most refueling stations for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles due to hit the road between now and 2017 will be owned by two large companies closely aligned with auto manufacturers.

California State University professors and other employees cannot engage in “discriminatory behavior, bullying or harassment,” nor may they display “offensive conduct of an unwelcome nature...”

No, the California Republican presidential primary on June 5 will not have particular importance, with Mitt Romney all but crowned the Republican nominee against Democratic President Obama.

As the “top-two” primary election system embodied in the 2010 Prop. 14 was being debated exactly two years ago, backers tried to comfort skeptics by pointing out that Californians already had experience with the system. The two leading vote-getters, they noted, have long advanced to runoffs whenever there’s been a special election anywhere in California.