Thomas D. Elias
Common Core Has Not Changed Anything
There was good news and bad news – and no news at all – in the latest results of standardized tests given each year...
Trump Aside, What if U.S. Adopted Top Two System?
Critics call California's three-year-old top two primary election system a jungle primary. It tosses candidates of all stripes into the same pot, forcing them...
Hey, Los Angeles, Get a Load of This
At 8:05 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3, anyone in San Mateo County who cared knew that the county’s (almost) all-mail election was a resounding...
Napolitano’s ‘Scuse-Me Reply to Jew Haters
Doubtful that Janet Napolitano worried when she heard that vandals scrawled swastikas and the message "Jews to the gas chamber" inside a restroom on...
Oil Companies Step on Gas – and Us
The days when oil companies could credibly deny they are gouging California drivers just because they have dropped pump prices a bit appear now to...
Concentrate on First Two Letters in PUC
State commissions, like people and corporations, rarely change unless they are given strong motivation. Sometimes change has to be forced.
The latest evidence now demonstrates...
How Does Gov. Steyer Sound?
Just over one year from today, Californians will be focused on helping elect the next president and picking their next U.S. senator.
That so-far-sedate race...
Easier to Die Than to Live
Gov. Brown may not have been aware of what he was doing, but a combination of his signatures and vetoes on bills passed by...
Trump Follows in Wilson’s Bloody Footprints
Shades of 1994 and the "Pete Wilson effect" that very quickly turned California from a swing state that could go either way in any...
Biggest Problem for Latinos – and Us
List California's biggest problems and water immediately comes up, followed by public employee pension obligations, voter distrust for government and childhood poverty, which runs...
