October 7, 2009 | The Parsky Commission’s Dodgy Tax Plan | |
October 7, 2009 | UC Leadership Looks Into Alternative Ways To Save Public Universities | |
October 7, 2009 | Speaking Truth To The Power Of Insurers | |
October 6, 2009 | California’s Civil Rights Heroes: Honoring the Legacies of Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk | |
October 6, 2009 | Staring At The Abyss In Higher Education | |
October 6, 2009 | Fishermen Protest Schwarzenegger’s Green Hypocrisy at Global Climate Summit | |
October 6, 2009 | Why Voting Matters | |
October 5, 2009 | Report Cites Need To Restore Due Process | |
October 5, 2009 | California’s Largest Doctors’ Union Says Congress Must Include Strong Public Option in Health Care Reform | |
October 5, 2009 | The Failed State of California? | |
October 4, 2009 | Mixed Signals From Washington On Fate Of Bay-Delta | |
October 3, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Ma, Torres Note October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Call for Restoration of Funding for Women’s Shelters | |
October 2, 2009 | Lawsuit Seeking to Stop IHSS Cuts Filed in Federal Court | |
October 2, 2009 | Tax Policy is Too Absurd | |
October 2, 2009 | Tax Reform for Billionaires | |
October 1, 2009 | Lawsuit To Be Filed In Federal Court Thursday To Stop Ihss Cuts | |
October 1, 2009 | Court Rules That Southern California Forest Plans Violate Federal Environmental Laws | |
October 1, 2009 | Time To End California’s Death Penalty | |
September 30, 2009 | The misdirected UC “walkout” | |
September 30, 2009 | Tax Report: A Failure To Provide A Fair, Long-Term Solution To California’s Revenue And Tax Problems. | |
September 30, 2009 | Tax Recommendations a Profound Disappointment | |
September 30, 2009 | Special Commission Releases Proposals For Major Overhaul Of State’s Tax System | |
September 29, 2009 | Nava "Dog's Best Legislator" | |
September 29, 2009 | The Walking Wounded | |
September 29, 2009 | Making Sacramento Even More Dysfunctional? | |
September 28, 2009 | LGBT Californians Await Governor's Action | |
September 28, 2009 | The Strange Case of the Perception of Bias | |
September 27, 2009 | Governor Should Follow Golden Rule - Affirm Californians' Right To Clean, Safe Water | |
September 26, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Assemblymember Blumenfield Reports Progress on H1N1 Vaccine Preparations | |
September 25, 2009 | Students, Faculty, and Workers Across the State Protest UC Fee Hikes and Furloughs | |
September 25, 2009 | Cavala: Meg Whitman: ‘Present, But Not Voting’. | |
September 25, 2009 | Over 136,000 People Will Be Impacted By IHSS Cuts Targeted To Become Effective November 1 | |
September 25, 2009 | Governor Celebrates 'Green' Policies as He Wages War on Salmon | |
September 24, 2009 | Yudof’s Broken Kettle | |
September 24, 2009 | How to Evaluate the COTCE Proposals | |
September 24, 2009 | Winning the Battle on Majority Rule | |
September 23, 2009 | Governor Signs Legislation To Prevent Loss Of Healthy Families Coverage For Over 900,000 Children | |
September 23, 2009 | Townhall Meeting Focuses on At-Risk Babies and Toddlers | |
September 23, 2009 | State Park Cuts Lack Logic | |
September 22, 2009 | Conservation Organizations Oppose California Policy That Would Give Carbon Credits for Forest Clearcutting | |
September 22, 2009 | WellPoint and Its Subsidiary Have Waged Campaign to Derail Health Reform | |
September 22, 2009 | Article Repeats Right-Wing Myth About State Spending | |
September 22, 2009 | Can Obama Orate His Way Out of Another Crisis? | |
September 21, 2009 | Furlough Issue Comes To Head This Week at UC | |
September 21, 2009 | Sean Hannity Spreads Dangerous Misinformation about California Water | |
September 20, 2009 | Daring To Get It Right: Legislature Says 'No' To Dangerous Last Minute Water Policy Proposal | |
September 19, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Galgiani, Coto Report Progress In Bipartisan Delegation’s Meetings With Key Cabinet Officials And Congressional Leaders On Budgetary And Policy Issues Critical To California | |
September 18, 2009 | A Missed Opportunity: Economic Recovery Should Start With the Prisons | |
September 18, 2009 | Senator Accuses Regents of Using Crisis To Line Pockets of Top UC Executives | |
September 18, 2009 | Skelton Criticizes Republicans As Extortionists | |
September 17, 2009 | UC Regents Reluctantly Push For Massive Fee Hike Amid Students Protests | |
September 17, 2009 | Reopening the doors at Healthy Families | |
September 17, 2009 | Senators Steinberg and Simitian Respond To Governor’s Renewable Portfolio Standard Executive Order | |
September 16, 2009 | End-Of-Session Chaos: Juvenility and Venality | |
September 16, 2009 | Sex Scandals and Sexism: The Mike Duvall Scandal | |
September 15, 2009 | Remedying California’s Prison Madness | |
September 15, 2009 | Breaking Language Barriers in Health Care | |
September 15, 2009 | The Bridges that Bind Us | |
September 14, 2009 | Young Adults Make Up Over Half Uninsured Americans | |
September 14, 2009 | The Future of Higher Education in California, Or Is There Any? | |
September 14, 2009 | And We Think Education is Expensive... | |
September 13, 2009 | Cavala: Remembering Frankie Vicencia | |
September 12, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Speaker Bass Discusses Legislative Accomplishments to Help California in Tough Year | |
September 12, 2009 | 33% Renewable Energy Bill Approved by Legislature | |
September 11, 2009 | Delta Legislators, Environmentalists Urge 'No Vote' On Rushed Water Legislation | |
September 11, 2009 | Friends of the River Urges Legislature To Reject Combined Delta Water Package And Water Bond | |
September 11, 2009 | PPIC: Californians Want Change But Approach Reform Cautiously | |
September 11, 2009 | Two Critical Health Bills Head To Governor | |
September 11, 2009 | Legislature Home Stretch | |
September 10, 2009 | Nursing Home Bill Delayed Until 2010 | |
September 10, 2009 | The Wagons Were Circled | |
September 10, 2009 | Sex In The State Capitol?? Shocking!! | |
September 10, 2009 | What Still Ails America | |
September 9, 2009 | AB 48 Protects Private For-Profit Education Corporations, Hurts Students and Taxpayers | |
September 9, 2009 | School reform: The Arne-and-Arnold agenda | |
September 9, 2009 | Consumers Union Urges California State Assembly to Vote Yes on BPA Ban | |
September 9, 2009 | Our Town Hall Adventure | |
September 8, 2009 | Controversy Erupts Over AB 411 Nursing Facility Bill | |
September 8, 2009 | One-Term Obama? | |
September 7, 2009 | Reflections on Labor Day | |
September 7, 2009 | Down the Wal-Mart Low Road: What Are the Costs of a Supercenter? | |
September 6, 2009 | A Look At Top Environmental and Public Health Bills At End of Session | |
September 5, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Torrico Report Progress on Major Challenges Facing California | |
September 4, 2009 | California Ground Zero for Fight Over Banning Toxic Chemical | |
September 4, 2009 | Early Education Key To Closing the Achievement Gap | |
September 4, 2009 | Healthy Families Gets a Reprieve | |
September 3, 2009 | Executive Pay Bill Killed in Committee | |
September 3, 2009 | Opposing Views on Prisons | |
September 3, 2009 | Department of Developmental Services Moves Forward On New “Prevention Program” for At-Risk Babies | |
September 3, 2009 | By Any Legislative Means Necessary | |
September 2, 2009 | Yudof’s Message | |
September 2, 2009 | Assembly Passes DOMA Resolution Brownley Calls “One Of The Most Important” Issues Of Her Tenure | |
September 2, 2009 | Lift, Strong Man! Lift! | |
September 2, 2009 | Data on Debt Demonstrates Need To Act | |
September 2, 2009 | Assembly’s Prison Effort Incomplete | |
September 1, 2009 | Prison Reform Passes, But Assembly Revisions Prove Costly | |
September 1, 2009 | Realities | |
September 1, 2009 | USDA’s Scare Tactics about Invasive Species Distort the Truth | |
September 1, 2009 | Poll: Voters Throughout State Are Opposed to Peripheral Canal | |
September 1, 2009 | Government Remains the Voice of the Powerless | |
August 31, 2009 | CA Prison Agency Takes Step Towards Reform While Assembly Runs Scared | |
August 31, 2009 | Are The Tea Party Protest Fading? | |
August 31, 2009 | Costly Inaction on Corrections Reform | |
August 31, 2009 | To This Partisan Irish Catholic, More Change We Can Believe In | |
August 30, 2009 | Taking An Ax To Forest Protection: Legislature Poised To Weaken Timber Harvest Plans | |
August 29, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Arambula Remember Senator Kennedy’s Lifetime of Public Service | |
August 28, 2009 | Bass Releases Assembly’s Revised Prison Reform Bill, Possible Vote Monday | |
August 28, 2009 | “Race To The Top:” Feds Demand Too Much, Too Soon, For Too Little | |
August 28, 2009 | Do Not Appeal Court’s Order In the Prison Overcrowding Lawsuit | |
August 28, 2009 | The Suspense Is Over For Health Care Bills in California | |
August 28, 2009 | Students Forced To Pay More to Get Less from CSU | |
August 27, 2009 | Auto Insurer Contracts Shed Light On A.B. 1200 | |
August 27, 2009 | Governor, Others Pay Tribute To The Late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Liberal 'Standard Bearer' | |
August 27, 2009 | Court Supports Claims that the High Speed Rail Authority's Environmental Review is Faulty | |
August 27, 2009 | California’s Response for Federal Stimulus Funding | |
August 27, 2009 | UC Whistle Blower Protection Act Passes Senate | |
August 26, 2009 | What We Can Learn From Healthy San Francisco Program | |
August 26, 2009 | Growing Our Deficits | |
August 26, 2009 | Stealing From the Youth | |
August 25, 2009 | Assembly Postpones Prison Reform Debate For Second Time | |
August 25, 2009 | The End of Tax Reform | |
August 25, 2009 | Saving the Public Option | |
August 24, 2009 | A Losing Compromise | |
August 24, 2009 | PG&E’s Big Fossil Play in Oregon | |
August 24, 2009 | Wake Up CA Assembly! Who are You Punishing with this Prison Budget? | |
August 24, 2009 | Public Hearings for Delta Bills This Coming Week | |
August 23, 2009 | Real Drought Relief: State Gives Green Light To Graywater | |
August 22, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, De León: Legislature Working Towards Corrections, Water Solutions | |
August 21, 2009 | Tough Times : 63,000 Kids Wishing, Waiting For Health Care | |
August 21, 2009 | Federal Judge Won’t Issue Preliminary Injunction To Stop Elimination Of 9 Medi-Cal Optional Benefits | |
August 21, 2009 | Tough Action Needed to Fix California | |
August 21, 2009 | Renting the California Dream | |
August 20, 2009 | Healthcare Memo: Don’t Mourn, Escalate | |
August 20, 2009 | Key Health Bills Pending As Legislature Reconvenes for Last Month | |
August 20, 2009 | Private Postsecondary Institutions Need Oversight Now | |
August 19, 2009 | Battle Lines Drawn on Water: Issues of Conveyance, Governance, and Financing | |
August 19, 2009 | No Virginia, It’s Not Just The Spending | |
August 19, 2009 | Ending the Federal Ban on Gay Blood Donations | |
August 19, 2009 | Oil Industry to Face Tougher Standards in California | |
August 18, 2009 | State Raises Park Fees, Seeks Partners To Reduce Number Of Targeted Closures | |
August 18, 2009 | The People's Budget Fix | |
August 18, 2009 | Obama’s Healthcare Crisis | |
August 17, 2009 | Consumer Coalition Announces August Legislative Priorities | |
August 17, 2009 | Embracing the Precautionary Principle | |
August 17, 2009 | The Public Option for California | |
August 16, 2009 | Let’s Not Talk About Cuts | |
August 15, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, De León Say President’s Healthcare Reforms are Critical for California | |
August 14, 2009 | Speier Alarmed By Hayashi Bill, Called ‘Distressingly Anti-Consumer’ By Advocacy Group | |
August 14, 2009 | More Public Discussions Regarding the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan | |
August 14, 2009 | Mixed News For Health Families Program | |
August 13, 2009 | Judge Blocks Chemical From Being Labeled Carcinogen | |
August 13, 2009 | Yet Another UC Compensation Scandal Renews Calls for Legislation | |
August 13, 2009 | California Water Forum Excludes Delta Communities | |
August 12, 2009 | Betting On A Constitutional Convention | |
August 12, 2009 | Snake Bit | |
August 12, 2009 | Would a Constitutional Convention Aid in Breaking State Gridlock? | |
August 11, 2009 | Steinberg Files Suit Against Governor | |
August 11, 2009 | Cal/OSHA Inspectors’ Protests Lead to Promises of Appeals Board Reform | |
August 11, 2009 | Cavala: Campaign “Spin”: Are Political Reporters Really That Dumb?? | |
August 11, 2009 | Marching on Sacramento | |
August 10, 2009 | Loss of Williamson Act | |
August 10, 2009 | Governor Signs Into Law Bill That Closes Loophole in Open Meetings Law | |
August 10, 2009 | Concern For Life Ends At Birth For Many | |
August 9, 2009 | Prop 13: What Would Milton Friedman Do? | |
August 8, 2009 | The Governor is No Emperor | |
August 7, 2009 | Cost Estimates Missing From Contentious Delta Bill Package | |
August 7, 2009 | Legislation Ensuring Open Access to Government Signed in Law | |
August 7, 2009 | Requiring the Oil Industry to Pay its "Fair Share" | |
August 7, 2009 | Offshore Drilling Not the Way To Go for Revenue | |
August 6, 2009 | Leg Counsel: Governor’s Veto Illegal | |
August 6, 2009 | Budget Essay 13: Women & Children First! oops: no lifeboats.... | |
August 6, 2009 | Delta Community and Environment Groups Respond to Delta Legislative Water Package | |
August 6, 2009 | Governor Exceeded Authority Under State Constitution With Most Of His Line Item Vetoes | |
August 5, 2009 | Schwarzenegger’s Era Of Missed Opportunities | |
August 5, 2009 | A Road Map to the Peripheral Canal | |
August 5, 2009 | Federal Judges Order California To Reduce Prison Population By 44,000 | |
August 4, 2009 | Governor Continues to Push Ambitious Agenda Despite Low Point in Approval | |
August 4, 2009 | Legislature Will Authorize Council, Try To Bypass Public Input For Canal Construction | |
August 4, 2009 | The Resignation of Newsom’s Campaign Manager | |
August 3, 2009 | California's July Budget Blues: ...For A Man May Smile and Smile and Still Be A Villain | |
August 3, 2009 | Perpetuating Budget Myths | |
August 3, 2009 | Lack of Investment | |
August 2, 2009 | The Governator Said He'll Be Back, But Which One? | |
August 1, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair John A. Pérez Calls Governor’s Vetoes Illegal | |
July 31, 2009 | Legislators Challenge Governor Over ‘Crippling, Cascading’ AIDS Cuts | |
July 31, 2009 | Assemblymember Huffman: Legislation Does Not Support Peripheral Canal | |
July 31, 2009 | Time For the Democratic Majority To Stand Up for Democratic Ideals | |
July 31, 2009 | No Holes Bored: Assembly Rejects Offshore Oil Drilling Proposal In State Budget Negotiations | |
July 30, 2009 | Support for Policies to Curb Warming Slips as Economy Takes Toll | |
July 30, 2009 | Caucus Chairs Calls Immediate Restoration of $487.2 million in Cuts Made Illegally by Schwarzenegger | |
July 30, 2009 | How They Voted | |
July 30, 2009 | Stopping the Governor's Vetoes | |
July 29, 2009 | What NUMMI Can Never Teach Us | |
July 29, 2009 | Cavala: Know When To Fold Em | |
July 29, 2009 | Governor's Line-Item Cuts Devastate California Health Care | |
July 29, 2009 | Long-Term Solutions Deferred in Latest Chapter of California State Budget Saga | |
July 29, 2009 | Governor's Priorities Clear | |
July 28, 2009 | Protestors, Legislators Question Governor's Veto Power | |
July 28, 2009 | Peripheral Canal Issue Emerges As Crucial in Post-Budget California | |
July 28, 2009 | When To Repeal Prop 8 | |
July 28, 2009 | Valuing Rectitude | |
July 27, 2009 | Will Peripheral Canal Be Considered After the August Recess? | |
July 27, 2009 | The Fear of Prop 13 | |
July 27, 2009 | Yes to Sensible Prison Policy That Works | |
July 26, 2009 | Nothing to Cheer About with New Budget | |
July 25, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Fuentes Highlight Services Saved in Budget Despite Two-Thirds Budget Vote Requirement | |
July 24, 2009 | California Coast Spared by Vote of Assembly | |
July 24, 2009 | Breaking News: Budget Passed | |
July 24, 2009 | Bipartisan Support Emerging ForTerm Limits Reform | |
July 24, 2009 | Senate Passes Budget | |
July 24, 2009 | Educational Leaders Decry Cuts To Education in Budget Agreement | |
July 24, 2009 | Assembly Passes Budget, Senate Nears Budget Vote | |
July 24, 2009 | 53 Environmental Groups Oppose Use of Budget Process To Approve New Offshore Oil Drilling Project | |
July 24, 2009 | Assembly Coastal Caucus Opposes Offshore Oil Drilling | |
July 23, 2009 | An Appeasement Budget | |
July 23, 2009 | PPIC Report: New Immigrant Arrivals Slow To Trickle | |
July 23, 2009 | New Budget Plan Takes California Backwards | |
July 23, 2009 | Severe Health Cuts in Budget | |
July 22, 2009 | The Shame of the Democrats | |
July 22, 2009 | Delaying Actions on State Climate Change Regulations Would Undermine California's Small Businesses | |
July 22, 2009 | Grim July For Health Care in California | |
July 21, 2009 | Devastating Cuts for Education, the Poor, Health Care, and Local Governments | |
July 21, 2009 | Leno’s Toxic Flame Retardant Bill Is Narrowed, Passes First Assembly Committee | |
July 21, 2009 | Bad to Worse with New Budget | |
July 21, 2009 | Culture of Capitol-ism | |
July 20, 2009 | Efforts To Regulate Mortgages Return From The Dead | |
July 20, 2009 | Budget Agreement Postponed | |
July 20, 2009 | The Shame of California | |
July 20, 2009 | Cuts That Will Cost California More in the Long Run | |
July 19, 2009 | No 'Short Term Relief' For State Workers In Budget Deal | |
July 19, 2009 | Will There Be A Budget Deal Today? | |
July 18, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Superintendent O’Connell, Assemblymember De León Call Education Achievement Gap Threat to Economy | |
July 17, 2009 | State Workers Will Vote For Strike | |
July 17, 2009 | DCA Nursing Board: Head of Investigation Unit Resigns | |
July 17, 2009 | Lawmakers to press for BPA regulation | |
July 17, 2009 | Elimination of Health Coverage to Children Penny-wise and Pound-Foolish | |
July 17, 2009 | Opposing Changes to Prop 98 | |
July 16, 2009 | CCPOA Joins SEIU In Approving Strike Authorization Vote | |
July 16, 2009 | Governor Makes New Appointments to the Nurses Board After Allegations Emerge | |
July 16, 2009 | Schwarzenegger’s Decision to Ignore $34 Billion of Waste Associated with Private Contractors is No Accident | |
July 16, 2009 | Inequality is Messy Business | |
July 16, 2009 | Budget Deals Stall Amid Education Funding Hold Up | |
July 16, 2009 | Senate Committees Pass Key Insurance Reforms | |
July 15, 2009 | Flat Taxers on the March | |
July 15, 2009 | Suspending Prop. 98 Would Permanently Rob Billions From Public School Students | |
July 15, 2009 | Cavala: Clap Your Hands If You Believe In Constitutional Conventions… | |
July 15, 2009 | Federal Judge Orders Schwarzenegger Administration To Comply With Order That Blocks State Reduction For IHSS Worker Wages | |
July 14, 2009 | Sick Out Rumor 'Not True,' Says SEIU Leader | |
July 14, 2009 | What Next? Eliminating Bus Drivers? | |
July 14, 2009 | The Missing Piece of the Health Care Reform Puzzle? The Health Care User | |
July 14, 2009 | Mean-spirited or Just Plain Mean? | |
July 14, 2009 | Mea culpa ! | |
July 13, 2009 | Legislators Square Off with Lobbyists on Mortgage Modifications | |
July 13, 2009 | Our Embattled Public University System Deserves Better | |
July 13, 2009 | Furlough Plan by UC Met with Mix of Support and Opposition | |
July 13, 2009 | Delta Groups Rally Against The Panama Canal North | |
July 12, 2009 | State Workers Vow to Fight Additional Pay Cuts and Furlough Days | |
July 12, 2009 | Governor Arnold Continues To Tea Bag California | |
July 11, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Evans, De León Call for Focus on Budget | |
July 10, 2009 | Governor Responds to State Workers Threat of Strike | |
July 10, 2009 | State Worker Strike Authorization Vote May Be Imminent | |
July 10, 2009 | PPIC Report Finds Poor Leave California At Much Higher Rate Than Rich | |
July 10, 2009 | Initiative to Eliminate the New Corporate Loopholes | |
July 10, 2009 | Why Workers Compensation Insurance Companies Don’t Need a Rate Increase | |
July 9, 2009 | Governor: 'Time Has Come, Day Is Now' for CalWORKS Reckoning | |
July 9, 2009 | Governor Proposals Sweeping Cuts To Health and Human Service Programs | |
July 9, 2009 | Senate Health Committee Passes Consumer Protections | |
July 9, 2009 | Human Beings At the Core of Budget Crisis | |
July 8, 2009 | California’s Five Wannabes | |
July 8, 2009 | Advocates Call Governor’s CalWORKs Claims ‘False’ | |
July 8, 2009 | Protecting Seniors From Reverse Mortgages | |
July 8, 2009 | Health Plans Need To Follow Codes of Conduct | |
July 8, 2009 | Freedom Comes With Vigilance | |
July 7, 2009 | Newspapers Go On The Record for Health Care Reform | |
July 7, 2009 | Governor Targets In-home Supportive Services while Speaker Boycotts Meetings | |
July 7, 2009 | Arnold's Bathtub | |
July 6, 2009 | California Deserves Better | |
July 6, 2009 | California’s Self-Inflicted Wounds | |
July 6, 2009 | Peripheral Canal: Panama Canal North? | |
July 5, 2009 | Freedom Isn’t Free – We Still Aren’t Free of Sarah Palin | |
July 4, 2009 | The Black-White Fallacy of Public Option | |
July 3, 2009 | Targeting Obesity Remains A Priority in Tough Budget Times | |
July 3, 2009 | Thousands Speak Out Against CA’s Costly and Broken Death Penalty | |
July 3, 2009 | Cuts Would Jeopardize Well-Being of Many Disabled Citizens | |
July 3, 2009 | Fully Fund Our Schools | |
July 2, 2009 | Same Governor, Different Goals | |
July 2, 2009 | Assemblymember Evans Sets the Record Straight | |
July 2, 2009 | Governor Proposes More Raids of Public Education Dollars | |
July 2, 2009 | Governor’s Actions Lead To Unnecessary and Premature Crisis | |
July 2, 2009 | Governor Scapegoats Dedicated Homecare Providers | |
July 1, 2009 | Patient Protest Marks First Cuts To Medi-Cal | |
July 1, 2009 | Oakland’s modest model of fairness | |
July 1, 2009 | Schwarzenegger Threatens to Shut Down the State | |
July 1, 2009 | Republicans Refuse to Support Cash Crisis Bills—We Now Go To Crisis and IOUs | |
July 1, 2009 | Huge Health Care Cuts Hit Beginning Today | |
July 1, 2009 | Without Compromise | |
June 30, 2009 | Oil and Tobacco Taxes: In Search of a More Moral State Budget | |
June 30, 2009 | As Deadline Approaches, Governor Acknowledges No Backup Plan | |
June 30, 2009 | Ethnic Studies: The "Stress Test" of Education in California | |
June 30, 2009 | Dissent Needed Against Injustices of Budget Cuts | |
June 30, 2009 | Our Policies Disrespect Our Elders | |
June 29, 2009 | Assembly Passes Majority Vote Budget Bills | |
June 29, 2009 | How We Got Here | |
June 28, 2009 | Time Running Out on Prospects for State to Avoid Catastrophe | |
June 28, 2009 | Judge Blocks IHSS Worker Wage Cut | |
June 27, 2009 | Lt. Dan Choi talks About Don't Ask Don't Tell | |
June 27, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Evans, Fuentes Disappointed as Senate Republicans Block Budget Solutions | |
June 26, 2009 | Assembly Proclaims June LGBT Pride Month Despite GOP Link To Prop 8 | |
June 26, 2009 | We Thought We had Problems | |
June 25, 2009 | Seeking California’s Elusive Oil Tax | |
June 25, 2009 | Housing Does Not Belong in the Bay | |
June 25, 2009 | New UC Chancellor Unfit to Serve | |
June 25, 2009 | What Happens When the Last Resort Is Not Available | |
June 24, 2009 | Abandoning High School Exit Exams Would Be a Mistake | |
June 24, 2009 | Advocacy by Amendment | |
June 24, 2009 | Key Protections for Whistleblowers, Sunshine, and Free Speech Pass Assembly | |
June 24, 2009 | Democratic Budget Goes to Vote Today | |
June 24, 2009 | Nightmare Scenario for School Lunches | |
June 23, 2009 | Dances, Drills and Defiance | |
June 23, 2009 | A Message to Constituents on Budget Crisis | |
June 23, 2009 | Has California Reached Its Rock-Bottom Moment? | |
June 23, 2009 | Republican Legislator Shows Profound Misunderstand of State Education Policy | |
June 22, 2009 | Leaked Industry Memo Prompts Warning on Chemicals | |
June 22, 2009 | Cal Grant Program is Vital to the Education of Underprivileged Students | |
June 22, 2009 | Pink Slips Have a Devastating Impact on Schools | |
June 21, 2009 | New Report Shows Devastating Economic Impacts from Proposed HHS Cuts | |
June 20, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, De León Outline Democrats’ Responsible Budget Solutions | |
June 19, 2009 | Brownley: Keep Cal Grants As Vital Part of Higher Education For All | |
June 19, 2009 | Investing In California Higher Education Benefits All Californians | |
June 19, 2009 | Preserving California’s Public Lands To Buffer Global Warming’s Effects | |
June 18, 2009 | 25 Republican Lawmakers Support Safeco in Insurance Overcharge Case | |
June 18, 2009 | Democratic Plan to Balance the Budget Introduced | |
June 18, 2009 | The Alcohol Industry Fights to Preserve an Antiquated Tax Structure | |
June 18, 2009 | 40,000 People On IHSS Could Face Elimination Or Reduction Of Services By October | |
June 17, 2009 | An Electorate Without Citizenship | |
June 17, 2009 | Conference Committee Closes Budget Gap with Cuts and Revenues | |
June 17, 2009 | Eliminate Enterprise Zone Tax Breaks | |
June 17, 2009 | Health Cuts Are Bad But Could Have Been Far Worse | |
June 16, 2009 | Republican Freshman Legislator in Union Crosshairs | |
June 16, 2009 | Fresno Hospital Bars Lesbian From Visiting Partner | |
June 16, 2009 | All Cuts Were Not Created Equal | |
June 16, 2009 | The Passing of Two Quiet Heroes | |
June 15, 2009 | Who Pays the Price for California’s Death Penalty? All of Us | |
June 15, 2009 | Critical Health Care Bills Still Pending | |
June 15, 2009 | Scandal Illuminates Troubled Family Court System | |
June 14, 2009 | Budget Cuts Threaten the Lives of The Most Vulnerable in California | |
June 13, 2009 | Speaker Pushes For Public Support of Revenue Proposals During Virtual Meeting | |
June 13, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Pérez Highlight Assembly Democratic Commitment to Fight for Families, Keep Safety Net | |
June 12, 2009 | May/June Budget Blues, part Two: California Is Terminated | |
June 12, 2009 | Enterprise Zones Have Failed To Produce According to PPIC Report | |
June 12, 2009 | Governor’s Policies Threat Termination of California | |
June 11, 2009 | MIDDAY REPORT: Broad Coalition Demands End to Corporate Tax Loophole | |
June 11, 2009 | Governor’s Budget Proposals Mirror Third World Structural Adjustment Policies | |
June 11, 2009 | Can Instant Run Off Voting Save Us from Our Budget Madness? | |
June 11, 2009 | Chiang: State Coffers Worse Than Expected, Painful Cuts Inevitable | |
June 11, 2009 | Senator Leno Introduces Resolution Calling for End of Medical Marijuana Raids in California | |
June 10, 2009 | Will Fiscal Misery Wake Us Up? | |
June 10, 2009 | A Better Way to Balance The Budget—and Protect Public Safety | |
June 10, 2009 | Obama Administration Waffles in “Defense” of California’s Financial Privacy Law | |
June 10, 2009 | Nava Hearings Focus on Home Lending Crisis and Mortgage Collapse | |
June 9, 2009 | Governor Invokes Drill Baby Drill To Save Our Economy | |
June 9, 2009 | Looking For More Openness in Legislative Talks | |
June 9, 2009 | Behemoths Face Their Own Obsolescence | |
June 8, 2009 | Corporate Tax Breaks in Last Budget Deals Benefit Few, Says Report | |
June 8, 2009 | Why Do We Tolerate a Massive Prison System That Produces 70% Recidivism Rates? | |
June 8, 2009 | Budget Committee Unwilling to Implement Draconian Cuts | |
June 7, 2009 | Why Parole Does Not Work in California | |
June 6, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Budget Conference Committee Members Blumenfield, De León Discuss Budget, Reforms | |
June 5, 2009 | Alternative Budget Proposal Pushes For Reform Rather than Simply Cuts | |
June 5, 2009 | Office of AIDS Faces $80 Million Cut Amidst Increasing Need for Service | |
June 5, 2009 | One Community Together – Not One Lifeboat For Some | |
June 5, 2009 | A Call For California To Lead the Way on Smart Transparency | |
June 4, 2009 | California Lacks Serious Health Insurance Competition According To Report | |
June 4, 2009 | Democrats Oppose Proposed Oil Lease off the Santa Barbara Coast | |
June 4, 2009 | Public Comment Period Concludes for the Conference Committee | |
June 3, 2009 | Proposed Park Closures Called 'Draconian' | |
June 3, 2009 | Firing Groundskeepers Won’t Fix The Budget Mess | |
June 3, 2009 | No policy rollbacks, say public interest groups | |
June 3, 2009 | Governor Tells Legislature "California's Day Of Reckoning Is Here" | |
June 3, 2009 | Improving the complaint process in State Health Care Boards: Sexual Misconduct | |
June 3, 2009 | We Need To Remove Barriers To College | |
June 2, 2009 | New Budget Essay One: the "Meaning" of the Prop 1A Vote | |
June 2, 2009 | Republicans: California's for the Rich! Poor People Get Out Now! | |
June 2, 2009 | Toxic Risk Assessment Could Be Thrown Out With the Budget Dust | |
June 2, 2009 | California Must Lead on Green Building | |
June 2, 2009 | Pushing Back Against Catholic Orthodoxy | |
June 1, 2009 | California School Funding: "Worse Than a Retreat; It is a Massacre" | |
June 1, 2009 | Governor Targets Only Low-Income Californians | |
June 1, 2009 | Budget Impacts Will Be Felt By All | |
May 31, 2009 | Sound Decisions Mixed with Missed Opportunities Highlight the Week in Environmental Legislation | |
May 31, 2009 | Controller Warns of State’s Cash Flow Emergency | |
May 30, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair John A. Pérez Disappointed in Prop. 8 Ruling | |
May 30, 2009 | Cavala: With Billions At Stake, City Officials Rendezvous In Luxury Accommodations (At Taxpayer Expense) | |
May 29, 2009 | High Quality Preschool Must Remain A Priority in California | |
May 29, 2009 | Stop Wasting California Money on Executions | |
May 29, 2009 | Budget Links Between the State and Local Governments | |
May 29, 2009 | California Must Develop Local Funding Options for Schools | |
May 29, 2009 | Fighting Back on Disability Rights | |
May 28, 2009 | UC Would No Longer Be ‘Above The Law’ Under Proposed Constitutional Change | |
May 28, 2009 | Governor’s Oil Actions Threaten California Coastline | |
May 28, 2009 | Perata Investigation Closed – Proving It’s The F.B.I. And Those Who Printed It’s “Leaks” That Should Be Investigated | |
May 27, 2009 | How the Court Lost Its Way on Prop 8 | |
May 27, 2009 | Governor Will Cut Health and Other Services To the Bone | |
May 27, 2009 | Legal Analysis: Initiative Process Put Liberty At Risk | |
May 27, 2009 | Governor Proposes New Massive $5.5 Billion In Cuts | |
May 27, 2009 | Decision a Terrible Blow to Thousands of Californians | |
May 26, 2009 | California Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Same Sex Marriage | |
May 26, 2009 | Blowing the Whistle On Those Thwarting Efforts to Protect Whistle-Blowers | |
May 26, 2009 | Governor Hears Only What He Wants To and Disregards the Rest | |
May 26, 2009 | In Politics Principle Comes with a High Price | |
May 25, 2009 | Who Won the Election Last Week? | |
May 25, 2009 | With Leadership Failing, Only the People Remain To Act | |
May 24, 2009 | Implementation of Water Conservation for New Developments | |
May 23, 2009 | Survey Suggests Results of Election Should Not Be Interpreted As A Tax Revolt | |
May 23, 2009 | Nearly 2 Million Californians Could Lose Coverage Under Governor's Proposed Health Budget Cuts | |
May 23, 2009 | Governor Socks It To the Needy While Pandering to Insurance Companies | |
May 22, 2009 | Special Election II Flops: Battle for the Budget Begins Anew | |
May 22, 2009 | Save $1 Billion In Five Years—End The Death Penalty In California | |
May 22, 2009 | The People Have Spoken | |
May 22, 2009 | Looking Toward Electric Vehicles | |
May 22, 2009 | California Academics Inject Substance Into EFCA Debate | |
May 21, 2009 | Healthcare Situation is Bad and Getting Worse Without Needed Reform | |
May 21, 2009 | Budget Process Laid Forth | |
May 21, 2009 | What’s Next: What Does the Election Mean? | |
May 21, 2009 | First 5 Responds to the Loss of Proposition 1D | |
May 20, 2009 | On the Failure of Prop 1A and the Future of Higher Education | |
May 20, 2009 | State Budget Deficit Swells To Over $21 Billion With Defeat Of 5 Ballot Measures | |
May 20, 2009 | Special Election Defeat Means More Hardship For California Students | |
May 20, 2009 | New National Standards on Auto Emissions to Rival California's Proposed Standards | |
May 20, 2009 | Low Voter Turnout Rebukes Costly Special Election, Says to Governor, Legislators: Get Back to Work | |
May 19, 2009 | Equity in Health Care | |
May 19, 2009 | Budget Conference Committee To Meet Thursday | |
May 19, 2009 | Legislation Improves Services for Survivors of Violent Crime | |
May 19, 2009 | The Ghosts of Reagan and Jarvis | |
May 18, 2009 | Fasten Your Seatbelts | |
May 18, 2009 | High School Dropout Rates: An Urgent Need For Improvement | |
May 18, 2009 | Decrying Double Digit Student Fee Hikes | |
May 17, 2009 | An Unnatural Disaster? PCL Questions Exemption of Environmental Review For Major Water Merger | |
May 16, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Coto Discuss Budget Situation, Highlight Assembly Budget Action | |
May 15, 2009 | Critical responses from Democratic Leaders and Progressive Groups to Governor’s Proposals For Dealing with Deficit | |
May 15, 2009 | Governor Releases Proposed Budget Changes – Massive New Permanent Cuts Proposed | |
May 15, 2009 | Governor's Revise Shows State Facing Huge Cuts to Health Benefits | |
May 14, 2009 | UC Regents Have Bigger Concerns Than The Swine Flu | |
May 14, 2009 | AB 56 Would Require Health Insurance Cover Mammograms for Screening or Diagnostic Purposes | |
May 14, 2009 | Support the Integrated Preferred Alternative To Protect California Coastline | |
May 14, 2009 | Just One Injured Man’s Opinion | |
May 13, 2009 | AB 12 Is Critical to Success of California’s Foster Youth | |
May 13, 2009 | CDE Report Shows Scant Movement on California Drop Out Rates | |
May 13, 2009 | Majority Leader Sponsors Legislation to Alleviate Student Fee Increases | |
May 12, 2009 | Budget Deficit Now Over $15 Billion Massive Cuts Seem Certain To Come | |
May 12, 2009 | COBRA Bill Heads to the Governor | |
May 12, 2009 | Holy Schism Over Abortion | |
May 11, 2009 | A Second Opinion: Current Valley Crisis Not Driven By Water Supply | |
May 11, 2009 | Millions of New Citizens | |
May 10, 2009 | We Need To Make Sure High Speed Rail Authority Is On Track | |
May 9, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Torrico Discuss LAO Cash Flow Report | |
May 8, 2009 | New Assembly Republican Leader Sam Blakeslee | |
May 8, 2009 | PPIC Report: Five Ballot Measures Trail - Interest in May Election Ballot Increases And So Does Opposition | |
May 8, 2009 | UC Arrogantly Lines Pockets Of Executives | |
May 8, 2009 | The Consent of the Governed | |
May 7, 2009 | LAO Reports Devastating News For California’s Budget | |
May 7, 2009 | Proposition 1B: Restoration of Education Funding – NO | |
May 7, 2009 | Cavala: Jack D. Maltester – Exemplar of Public Life | |
May 7, 2009 | Cal-Cobra Premium Assistance Passes Senate Floor With Bipartisan Support | |
May 7, 2009 | Senate Approves Sen. Romero’s Bill Increasing Transparency in Education Policy | |
May 6, 2009 | Proposition 1A: State Budget Stabilization – YES | |
May 6, 2009 | Local School District Receive Solar Grant | |
May 6, 2009 | $634 Million Coming To California For Special Education | |
May 6, 2009 | Essay Seven: Props 1D, 1E and 1F | |
May 6, 2009 | Running the Show with Wonks and Gurus | |
May 5, 2009 | California Needs Propositions 1a-1f to Protect Schools, Health Care And Public Safety From Devastating Cuts And Layoffs | |
May 5, 2009 | 33rd California Peace Officers Memorial Ceremony: With Duty and Honor | |
May 5, 2009 | Essay Six: Props 1A, 1B and 1C | |
May 5, 2009 | Update on In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Bills | |
May 4, 2009 | California Budget part five: How Abel Raised Cain | |
May 4, 2009 | Renewed Hope for Same Sex Marriage | |
May 4, 2009 | Commerce Secretary Releases $53.1 Million in Salmon Disaster Relief | |
May 3, 2009 | A Look At Spending Caps | |
May 2, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: May is Foster Care Month -- Bass, Torres Highlight Assembly Actions to Improve Foster Care | |
May 1, 2009 | Props 1D and 1E – Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing | |
May 1, 2009 | Toxic Food and Children’s Furniture Bills Advance in Senate (SB 443 and SB 772) | |
May 1, 2009 | Strong Start: Bills Sponsored By PCL Overcome First Major Hurdle | |
May 1, 2009 | AB 1281 Brings Outdated Racial And Ethnic Data Collection Practices Up To Current Standards | |
April 30, 2009 | PPIC Report: Californians Support Changes For Schools, Split on How to Achieve Change | |
April 30, 2009 | CTA Supports the May 19 Ballot Initiatives | |
April 30, 2009 | A Stimulus for Better Health: Realizing the Vision for a Healthy California | |
April 30, 2009 | Measures To Place New Oversight Over The Health Insurance Industry Clear Critical First Hurdle | |
April 30, 2009 | What Specter’s Switch Means to Us | |
April 29, 2009 | On Crime Victims Rights Week | |
April 29, 2009 | Steinberg Announces New Senate Select Committee on Autism and Related Disorders | |
April 29, 2009 | Massive Opposition Results in Gutting of Bill Attacking Bay-Delta Fisheries | |
April 29, 2009 | A climate of theological McCarthyism | |
April 28, 2009 | Assemblymember Jones Addresses Health Insurance Issues and Candidacy for Insurance Commissioner | |
April 28, 2009 | Top 10 Reasons Why Progressives Should Support Prop 1A | |
April 28, 2009 | Pro-Environment Bill Would Regulate Gas 17,000 Times More Damaging Than Carbon Dioxide | |
April 27, 2009 | Senate Majority Leader Warns: “Education will take the single largest hit its ever taken in its history” | |
April 27, 2009 | Crime Victims Week-Death Penalty Alterntatives | |
April 27, 2009 | Doctors Who Do Utilization Review Should Be Licensed In California | |
April 27, 2009 | Brief Conversation with Assemblymember Mariko Yamada | |
April 26, 2009 | Senator Boxer Addresses California Democratic Convention | |
April 26, 2009 | Ten Guiding Principles Released At Sacramento Water Summit | |
April 25, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Pérez Highlight Capitol Environmental Sustainability Bill | |
April 25, 2009 | Democratic Candidates for Governor Address Sacramento Group Prior to Convention | |
April 24, 2009 | Farm Worker Employee Free Choice Act Passes the Senate | |
April 24, 2009 | Budget Bites on Health Care | |
April 24, 2009 | Over 2,000 March and Protest at State Capitol Against Cuts To Disabled, Mental Health, Seniors | |
April 24, 2009 | PDLA Urges a No Vote on the Initiatives | |
April 23, 2009 | What To Do With Old Tires | |
April 23, 2009 | AB 1017 Would Strengthen Laws Regarding Rape Kit testing | |
April 23, 2009 | Bass Withdraws Pay Increases | |
April 23, 2009 | Bill Requires Increased Accountability of the Migrant Education Program | |
April 22, 2009 | Key Food Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle | |
April 22, 2009 | Five Years of Schwarzenegger’s Work Comp Law | |
April 22, 2009 | Props 1A-1E, A True Plan | |
April 21, 2009 | How Prop 1A is Being Packaged | |
April 21, 2009 | Legislation Would Allow Courts To Gag Public Records Requesters | |
April 21, 2009 | An Interview with Don Perata | |
April 21, 2009 | Divisions within the Church on Critical Contemporary Issues | |
April 20, 2009 | TONIGHT AT 5:30 PM - Salute Frank Russo – Support the CA Progress Report | |
April 20, 2009 | Why We Need SB 810 in California | |
April 20, 2009 | Garamendi Considers Switch to Congressional Race | |
April 19, 2009 | Examining Proposed Amendments to CEQA Guidelines | |
April 18, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Bass, Caballero Highlight New Federal Funds for California Water Infrastructure | |
April 17, 2009 | Teachers’ Group to Use Courts to Get Prop. 98 Money | |
April 17, 2009 | How California Benefits from Obama High Speed Rail Plan | |
April 16, 2009 | Protecting California's Coast | |
April 16, 2009 | The Efforts To Deal with Under-Insurance | |
April 16, 2009 | New California Single Payer Bill Passes First Hurdle | |
April 16, 2009 | Secretary of Interior and Assembly Huffman Announced Economic Stimulus Projects To Help Water Infrastructure in California | |
April 15, 2009 | Legislators Oppose Oil and Gas Drilling Off California’s Coast | |
April 15, 2009 | Key Health Measures Pass Assembly Health Committee | |
April 15, 2009 | Advocates Fear More Major Cuts as State Revenues Continue To Fall | |
April 15, 2009 | Will One Company Dominate All Northern California Newspapers? | |
April 14, 2009 | New Report Underscores Education Reform Needs | |
April 14, 2009 | Los Angeles Times Front Page Story Hits IHSS Program | |
April 14, 2009 | Nava Legislation to Clean-up Mortgage & Banking Industry Passes Committee | |
April 14, 2009 | Work and Reducing Recidivism: What Do We Know? | |
April 13, 2009 | No Need for "Widespread" Panic: Homecare Providers Support Efforts to Stop Fraud | |
April 13, 2009 | Leveling the Health Care Playing Field | |
April 13, 2009 | Senate Majority Leader Calls for Oversight Hearing on MLPA Process | |
April 12, 2009 | California's Environment Will Benefit Under New Leadership | |
April 11, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Jones, Arambula Highlight Bill to Help Californians Losing Small Business Jobs | |
April 10, 2009 | This is What Education Has Come To: Pay Cuts or Layoffs | |
April 10, 2009 | Where Universal Health Care Stands | |
April 10, 2009 | Structural Changes Needed to Change the Budget Picture | |
April 9, 2009 | Cavala: Jerome Waldie: Honest. Democrat. Politician. | |
April 8, 2009 | Make Flood Protection A Priority For Restoration Of The Delta | |
April 8, 2009 | AG Brown Urges Obama Administration to Allow California to Enforce its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Law | |
April 8, 2009 | Republican Calls for Charges To Be Dropped Against Former Senate Leader Perata | |
April 8, 2009 | Marriage Equality Proponents in California Applaud the Actions of the Vermont Legislature | |
April 7, 2009 | Freshman Assemblymember Huber Pushes for Greater Transparency in Government | |
April 7, 2009 | The Dow’s Tyrannical Ways | |
April 7, 2009 | Reverse Historic Trends in California by Taxing the Rich | |
April 7, 2009 | Highlighting the Issue of Tennant Foreclosures | |
April 6, 2009 | Protecting Kids Riding Buses | |
April 6, 2009 | Medi-Cal Providers Win Again In Federal Court | |
April 6, 2009 | Cavala: “Dick” Of “Dick and Doc” Passes - Pioneer Of Democratic Campaigns | |
April 6, 2009 | What Welfare Reform Teaches Us About Reforming Parole | |
April 5, 2009 | 33% Or Bust: Mandate For More Renewable Power Advancing Through State Legislature | |
April 4, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Hayashi, Solorio Promote Bill to Prevent Head Trauma | |
April 3, 2009 | Farmworker Free Choice Bill Passes Senate Committee | |
April 3, 2009 | Disaster Relief Legislation for Victims of California Fires Passed Assembly Committee | |
April 3, 2009 | This is Not Transparency | |
April 2, 2009 | Demand Real Health Care Reform - April 6, LA | |
April 2, 2009 | Republican Feud: Maldonado Attacks Poizner in Scathing Letter | |
April 2, 2009 | Health Panel Approves Protections For Women Obtaining Mammograms | |
April 2, 2009 | State Gets Over One Billion in Educational Money from the USDE | |
April 1, 2009 | AB 53 and AB1 Would Freeze State Salaries Above $150,000 | |
April 1, 2009 | Runaway, Budget-Busting Runoffs | |
April 1, 2009 | State Has Sufficient Cash for Remainder of the Fiscal Year | |
March 31, 2009 | California Budget Part 4: The One Vote Short Budget | |
March 31, 2009 | Secret Ballot Does Not Exist Now in Union Elections | |
March 31, 2009 | Will California Follows Obama Administration on Transparent Lobbying? | |
March 31, 2009 | Will The Chronicle Sink Hearst? | |
March 31, 2009 | Schwarzenegger Links Wilderness Bill to Building Peripheral Canal | |
March 30, 2009 | "The Fight of the Century"? | |
March 30, 2009 | The Story of Who Really Runs California | |
March 30, 2009 | Are Republican Governor Candidates Running Away From Arnold? | |
March 29, 2009 | California Warmly Received In Return To Bond Market | |
March 28, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Maria Elena Durazo Praises Legislative Action to Protect Workers as Cesar Chavez Day Commemoration Begins | |
March 28, 2009 | Trigger Does Not Go Through and Its Costly For Many Californians | |
March 27, 2009 | UC Continues to Disrespect Taxpayers, Students | |
March 27, 2009 | New Bill List: Urgency Legislation to Get Federal Funding Advances | |
March 27, 2009 | Torlakson Presses Governor To Help Beleaguered Schools | |
March 27, 2009 | Senate Passes Measures Extending Unemployment Insurance Benefits | |
March 26, 2009 | PPIC Report: Special Election Ballot Propositions Face Tough Road | |
March 26, 2009 | Errors Found In Government Reports on Toxic Danger of Pesticides Used Against Light Brown Apple Moth | |
March 26, 2009 | Federal Fund "Trigger" Announcement Likely Friday | |
March 26, 2009 | Alarming Incidence of Denial of Health Care Coverage | |
March 25, 2009 | Open Government is Not Just a Benefit for Reporters | |
March 25, 2009 | Natural Resources Panel Gives Key Approval to Ban Smoking at State Beaches and Parks | |
March 25, 2009 | American Workers Would Become Too Big To Fail Under EFCA | |
March 25, 2009 | AG Should Not Ignore Anti-Trust Laws in Rescue of Chronicle | |
March 24, 2009 | Protect Our Most Vulnerable from the Risk of Aerial Pesticide Spraying: Support the Clean Air for Children, Seniors, and Working Families Act | |
March 24, 2009 | Coalition Urges Obama to Defend California Financial Privacy Law | |
March 24, 2009 | Governor’s Views on the High Speed Rail | |
March 24, 2009 | Cavala: Concealed Weapon Permit Legislation Takes on California Sheriff’s Association | |
March 23, 2009 | Wal-Mart Attempts to Stop Sex Discrimination Case From Moving Forward As Class Action Law Suit | |
March 23, 2009 | Presenting the Magical Mystery Majority Budget | |
March 23, 2009 | New Mexico Leads The Way Against the Death Penalty, California Should Follow | |
March 23, 2009 | Use Tax Reality | |
March 22, 2009 | Efforts to End Freeze of Bond-Funded Conservation Projects | |
March 21, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Speaker Bass, Caucus Chair Pérez Highlight Legislation to Secure Federal Stimulus for California | |
March 21, 2009 | Poor Ocean and River Conditions Spurred Sacramento Salmon Collapse | |
March 20, 2009 | Examining Impacts of Prop 1A | |
March 20, 2009 | Fannie Mae Executives Who Accept Bonuses Should Be Fired | |
March 20, 2009 | Schools Across the State Brace For Another Hit | |
March 20, 2009 | Cavala: Latest Voter Registration Numbers Should Be a Source of Worry for Republicans | |
March 20, 2009 | No Link Between Taxes and Wealth Flight | |
March 19, 2009 | University Workers Across California Step Out on Picket Line | |
March 19, 2009 | Low-Income Single Moms Struggle to Survive in Recession with No Health Insurance | |
March 19, 2009 | Bill To Aid Foster Youth Passes Out of Committee | |
March 18, 2009 | Large Rally on North Steps of Capitol for Employee Free Choice Act | |
March 18, 2009 | Construction Industry Worst at Insuring Workers, Study Finds | |
March 17, 2009 | Rescue Higher Education: Students, Faculty March & Rally to Protest Cuts | |
March 17, 2009 | Will California Pull the Trigger? | |
March 17, 2009 | California Lags Behind Rest of Nation on Online Data Disclosure | |
March 17, 2009 | Fish Gotta Swim: Environmental and Fishing Communities Speak Out On Salmon Crisis | |
March 17, 2009 | Chronicle and Other Papers in Trouble | |
March 16, 2009 | Bipartisanship Needed to Help State’s Unemployed | |
March 16, 2009 | Rite Aid and the Failure of Labor Law | |
March 16, 2009 | Protecting Workers' Rights Is Critical For California's Economic Recovery | |
March 15, 2009 | Cavala: Fullerton Anti-Tax Crowd Less Impressive Than San Francisco Pillow Fight Attendees? | |
March 15, 2009 | Preserving Rail Line Critical to California’s Transportation Future | |
March 14, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Assemblymembers Hayashi, Solorio See Jobs, Savings in the Greening of State Buildings | |
March 14, 2009 | From Bad To Worse: California Faces Yet Another Round of Cuts | |
March 14, 2009 | Legislative Analyst Says Revenues Dropping, New Budget Gap Of Over $8 Billion Projected | |
March 13, 2009 | Rethinking Federal Student Aid for the Common Good | |
March 13, 2009 | California Budget Part Two: December doldrums | |
March 13, 2009 | Open Government Threatened by Recent Court Rulings | |
March 13, 2009 | Rescue Higher Education: UC, CSU, Community Colleges Students, Faculty to March & Rally to Protest Cuts | |
March 12, 2009 | New Bill by Mark Leno Addresses Health Care Crisis | |
March 12, 2009 | Medicare Advantage—Whose Advantage? | |
March 12, 2009 | Sen. Oropeza Measure Would Fight Air Pollution, Protect Kids Who Ride Buses | |
March 12, 2009 | Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Reintroduced in the House | |
March 12, 2009 | Unreliable Immigration Data Is Out-of-Date and Context | |
March 11, 2009 | Will President Obama Defend California Privacy Law? | |
March 11, 2009 | Employee Free Choice Act Will Protect the Rights of Working Families | |
March 11, 2009 | Proposition 8 -- The Far Right Is Way Wrong | |
March 11, 2009 | Averting a California toxics disaster | |
March 10, 2009 | Cavala: Continuing ‘Investigation’ Of Don Perata Puts Our Justice Department In A Bad Light | |
March 10, 2009 | Reports Finds Extended Foster Care Support Cost Effective Alternative | |
March 10, 2009 | Reason Returns to the White House | |
March 10, 2009 | Economic Crisis Poses Huge Threat to Middle Class Standard of Living | |
March 9, 2009 | Cavala: “Open” Primary Will Close Out Minor Political Parties In California. | |
March 9, 2009 | Funding for Senior Advocacy Groups a Victim of Budget Crisis | |
March 9, 2009 | Teachers Protest Educational Cuts This Friday | |
March 9, 2009 | Equal But Opposite Reaction Needed to Bring California To A State of Good Repair | |
March 8, 2009 | Bill Deadline Brings New Proposed Environmental Legislation | |
March 7, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Coto Highlights Bill to Connect California With New Federal Unemployment Insurance Funds | |
March 7, 2009 | Controller’s Office Begins Releasing Delayed Payments | |
March 6, 2009 | California Budget - What Happened Last Fall | |
March 6, 2009 | Prop 1A Undergoes Court Mandates Changes | |
March 6, 2009 | Coalition of Attorneys Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Prop 8 | |
March 6, 2009 | Analysis of Yesterday’s Supreme Court Hearing on Prop 8 | |
March 5, 2009 | California Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments to Invalidate Proposition 8 | |
March 5, 2009 | Equality and Justice for All | |
March 5, 2009 | Misplaced Priorities in California State Budget Saga (Again) | |
March 5, 2009 | We Do Not Have to Choose Between Fish and People | |
March 4, 2009 | Response to Cavala: The Call of a Constitutional Convention | |
March 4, 2009 | Comparing the 2009 California Reforms | |
March 4, 2009 | Court Should Strike Down Proposition 8 | |
March 4, 2009 | Prop 1E Threatens Mental Health Services For Needy | |
March 4, 2009 | Smart On Crime Ways To Reduce Prison Spending | |
March 3, 2009 | The Real Threat of Prop 8 and Why It Must Be Overturned | |
March 3, 2009 | Budget Reform Being Compromised | |
March 3, 2009 | On the Value of Jobs | |
March 3, 2009 | Former State Legislators Given Healthy Retirements as Lobbyists | |
March 2, 2009 | Immigration Represents A Springboard for California’s Rebound | |
March 2, 2009 | Judy Chu Runs To Replace Labor Secretary Hilda Solis in Congress | |
March 2, 2009 | Tax Cuts Has Reduced Government’s Ability to Provide Basic Services | |
March 2, 2009 | Editorial: Vaccines And Autism: The Controversy And The Science | |
March 1, 2009 | What Does Seven Billion in Educational Cuts Look Like? | |
February 28, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Evans, Fuentes Highlight California’s Strategy to Maximize Federal Stimulus | |
February 28, 2009 | New Budget Contains Regressive Tax Increases | |
February 27, 2009 | Cavala: Media Pundits Join Cavalcade of Those Who Would Circumvent The Constitution To Change It | |
February 27, 2009 | Curbing the Cost of Crime | |
February 27, 2009 | Budget and Legislature Suffer From Low Approval Ratings | |
February 27, 2009 | Budget Update #4--Medi-Cal, Other Health Services, & Mental Health Services | |
February 27, 2009 | Governor Lauds Introduction of Peripheral Canal and Dams Bill | |
February 26, 2009 | PPIC Report: Pro-Choice Views Prevail, But Californians Far From United on Abortion | |
February 26, 2009 | Ensure Stimulus Funds Reach the CSU System | |
February 26, 2009 | Ashburn Speaks Out | |
February 26, 2009 | A Tale of Two Speeches: Jindal No Match for Obama | |
February 26, 2009 | Budget Update #3: Senior (Aging) Programs | |
February 25, 2009 | Cavala: More Fodder For the Anti-Politician Mill | |
February 25, 2009 | Medicare for All Would Create 2.6 Million Jobs | |
February 25, 2009 | Long-Term Costs for Paying Future State Retiree Health Benefits | |
February 25, 2009 | Budget Update #2 On SSI/SSP, IHSS, CAPI, Transportation, & Calworks Programs | |
February 25, 2009 | California Labor Federation Applauds Confirmation of Solis | |
February 24, 2009 | Cavala: The “Two-Thirds” Vote Requirement for Passing California’s Budget | |
February 24, 2009 | Will Further Severe Spending Cuts Be Needed | |
February 24, 2009 | The Good Governor | |
February 24, 2009 | Time to Nationalize Our Bankrupt Health Care System | |
February 24, 2009 | Budget Update on Regional Centers and Special Education | |
February 23, 2009 | Cavala: First Thoughts on the Proposed Changes in Our Current Election System | |
February 23, 2009 | Is it Time To Re-write California’s Constitution | |
February 23, 2009 | Republicans Falsely Claim to Be Tough on Crime | |
February 22, 2009 | Republicans Able to Exact Disproportionate Influence on State Budget | |
February 22, 2009 | Governor’s Budget Slashes Environmental and Health Protections | |
February 21, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Budget Vote Requirement Needs to be Changed | |
February 21, 2009 | It is Time To End the 2/3rds Rule | |
February 20, 2009 | Cavala: You Bring the Tar, I’ll Bring the Feathers! G.O.P. Convention in the Capitol This Weekend… | |
February 20, 2009 | California Budget: Big Business is Only Winner | |
February 20, 2009 | State Superintendent Discusses Impact of Budget on Education | |
February 20, 2009 | California Alliance for Jobs Applauds Legislature for Passing Budget | |
February 20, 2009 | California Needs to Insure Timely Access to Health Care | |
February 19, 2009 | Democratic Leaders Express Relief Rather Than Celebration | |
February 19, 2009 | Advocacy is about Lives that Matter | |
February 19, 2009 | Budget Passes: Maldonado Casts Deciding Vote | |
February 19, 2009 | Stimulus Bill Boosts Plug-in Electric Cars | |
February 18, 2009 | California In Need of Its Own Sullenberger To Save It | |
February 18, 2009 | Cogdill Replaced by More Strident Hollingsworth as Budget Stand-Off Continues | |
February 18, 2009 | Eliminating State Oversight Board is the Wrong Reform | |
February 18, 2009 | Cavala: Failure Of The ‘Big 5’ Budget Package Will Force Schwarzenegger’s Reconsideration Of Majority Vote ‘Fee’ Hikes | |
February 18, 2009 | To Urbanize or Not: That is the Question | |
February 17, 2009 | State Remains in Fiscal Peril As Budget Impasse Continues | |
February 17, 2009 | Budget Situation Impacts California Jobs | |
February 17, 2009 | The Impact of Maldonado’s Demands | |
February 17, 2009 | Presidential Icon Needs Real Grounding to Enact Tough Policies | |
February 16, 2009 | Valentine’s Day Massacre Becomes a Hostage Situation | |
February 16, 2009 | Republican Obstructionists Block the Budget Deal | |
February 16, 2009 | Bill Still Stalled Focus is On Senator Maldonado | |
February 15, 2009 | Budget Passes Assembly Stalled in the Senate | |
February 15, 2009 | Speaker Bass’ Floor Remarks on the Floor of the Senate | |
February 14, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Compromise Budget Needed to End Cash Crisis | |
February 14, 2009 | Republicans Succeed in Weakening Environmental and Labor Protections in Budget | |
February 14, 2009 | Billions Sent to California for Federal Stimulus Plan | |
February 13, 2009 | State Budget Requires Public Democracy Not a Cone of Silence | |
February 13, 2009 | State Considers Health Care Spending Cap | |
February 13, 2009 | As Budget Deal Nears Details Emerge | |
February 13, 2009 | Roll Call on the Budget | |
February 13, 2009 | California Alliance for Jobs Urges Legislators to Quickly Pass Measure to Prevent Massive Job Losses | |
February 12, 2009 | Votes For Budget Deal Do Not Appear To Be There | |
February 12, 2009 | O’Connell Seeks To Save School Meals | |
February 12, 2009 | Health Insurance for Children: A Proposal | |
February 12, 2009 | Final Budget Deal Emerging | |
February 11, 2009 | Governor’s Forced Furloughs Did Not Save the Economy | |
February 11, 2009 | Democrats Should Not Be Forced Into a Bad Deal | |
February 11, 2009 | Advocates Must Continue to Move | |
February 11, 2009 | Water Exporters Want to End the Endangered Species Act | |
February 10, 2009 | UC’s Broken Record: University Again Misleads Taxpayers, Students | |
February 10, 2009 | No Free Lunch | |
February 10, 2009 | The Failure of Our Prison Policy | |
February 10, 2009 | Trust Government Over the Fat Cats | |
February 9, 2009 | No Boards—No Oversight | |
February 9, 2009 | Cavala: Memorable Week Ahead in the Capitol | |
February 9, 2009 | Governor Among Those Who Capture Cold, Dead Fish Awards | |
February 9, 2009 | They Did It, Why Won’t We? Think Of All The Moolah We Could Save! | |
February 9, 2009 | Reflections on the Meaning of Christianity and Religious Symbols: A Reaction to the Mt Soledad Cross Controversy | |
February 8, 2009 | Republican Vote Trading Allegations Spawns Action | |
February 8, 2009 | Governor and Legislative Leaders Close to Agreement – But No Deal Yet | |
February 7, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: With California’s Credit Rating Now Lowest in Nation, Evans, Pérez Call for Quick Budget Action | |
February 6, 2009 | Letter Presses AG to Investigate Republicans For Alleged Vote Trading in the Budget Process | |
February 6, 2009 | Class Size Reduction Program Must Be Protected | |
February 6, 2009 | Will There Be A Budget Vote Next Week? | |
February 6, 2009 | Corbett bill Protects Car Buyers from Deadbeat Dealers | |
February 6, 2009 | CFT Launches a New Radio Campaign Promoting a State Budget Solution That Includes Fair Taxes | |
February 5, 2009 | Environmental Protections Held Hostage in Budget Negotiations | |
February 5, 2009 | "I Screwed Up" | |
February 5, 2009 | New Energy Secretary Offers Chilling Warning to California on Global Warming | |
February 5, 2009 | The Name May Change but the Dark Mission Remains the Same | |
February 4, 2009 | State of Education Address by California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell | |
February 4, 2009 | Dmv End Run Threatens Our Privacy | |
February 4, 2009 | When Bad Things Happen – Sometimes Good People Stand By And Let It Happen | |
February 3, 2009 | Cavala: First “Censure”, Then Purge--The Republican Party Seeks Ideological Cleansing…. | |
February 3, 2009 | Call for Swift Passage of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act | |
February 3, 2009 | The Mandarins of Wall Street All Fall Down | |
February 3, 2009 | Editorials Place Blame on Republicans for Budget Holdup | |
February 2, 2009 | Polling Shows Californians Want a Mix of Spending Cuts and Revenue Increases | |
February 2, 2009 | Cavala: President Target’s “Two Birds” With Commerce Secretary Appointment. G.O.P. Decline Continues… | |
February 2, 2009 | Who Are Our James Madisons? | |
February 1, 2009 | Will Republicans Divert Stimulus Money From Immediate Budget Needs? | |
February 1, 2009 | Schwarzenegger Uses Snow Survey as Opportunity to Push Peripheral Canal | |
January 31, 2009 | Democratic Radio Address: Federal Stimulus on Horizon, Focus Remains on Budget | |
January 30, 2009 | Governor Wins Round One of the Court Battle, State Workers Lose Their Livelihood | |
January 30, 2009 | Judge Rules In Favor of Governor Schwarzenegger | |
January 30, 2009 | Serious Concerns About New Tranquillon Ridge Offshore Oil Development | |
January 30, 2009 | Home Care Cuts Would Make the Current Budget Crisis Even Worse | |
January 29, 2009 | PPIC Survey Shows For First Time Majority Favor Reduction of Two-Thirds Requirement For Budget Passage | |
January 29, 2009 | On the Brink | |
January 29, 2009 | Stimulus Plan’s Impact on People With Disabilities Unclear | |
January 29, 2009 | Expanding Medicare Could Reverse Job Losses, and Repair Our Broken Healthcare System | |
January 29, 2009 | New Reports Show Dam Removal Will Benefit Klamath River Salmon, Water Quality | |
January 28, 2009 | Injured Workers Welcome a Congressional Study of Workers Compensation | |
January 28, 2009 | The Right to Timely Access to Health Care | |
January 28, 2009 | Assemblymember Dave Jones Bill Bans Sex Discrimination in Health Insurance | |
January 28, 2009 | Governor’s Mental Health Proposal Would Cause Irreparable Harm to Clients and Communities | |
January 27, 2009 | New Initiative Retroactively Threatens Public Employee Pensions | |
January 27, 2009 | Continued Need For Smart and Sustainable Growth in the San Joaquin Valley | |
January 27, 2009 | Arnold Continues War on Fish | |
January 27, 2009 | Speaker Applaud EPA Decision by Obama | |
January 27, 2009 | US Lags Behind China in Infrastructure | |
January 26, 2009 | A New Day In Health Access? | |
January 26, 2009 | Cavala: The Threat of a Constitutional “Convention” | |
January 26, 2009 | Local Media Coverage Distorts Truth About Budget Impasse | |
January 26, 2009 | Ideology Will Not Solve California’s Problems | |
January 26, 2009 | California is Now Broke | |
January 25, 2009 | Catch-22 | |
January 24, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Federal Stimulus to Help California Move Forward | |
January 24, 2009 | Controller Needs To Keep Disabled Community Better Informed on IOU Status | |
January 23, 2009 | Federal Bailout Insufficient To Address California Needs | |
January 23, 2009 | California Needs To Move Away From Howard Jarvis Dogma | |
January 23, 2009 | Air Quality is Now an Issue of Lifespan and Longevity | |
January 23, 2009 | Budget Crisis Made Worse by Targeting Home Care | |
January 22, 2009 | PPIC Report: California’s System for Financing Infrastructure Lags Rest of the Nation | |
January 22, 2009 | People on Disability Will Receive Full Funding For February | |
January 22, 2009 | Governor's Attempt to Furlough State Employees is Illegal | |
January 22, 2009 | Obama is President, Now What? | |
January 21, 2009 | Obama's Presidency is Hope Renewed | |
January 21, 2009 | Federal Assistance Needed for California Health Care | |
January 21, 2009 | Remaining Environmentally Conscious During Tough Times An Imperative For Local Communities | |
January 21, 2009 | Leaping Steelhead Conservation Awards For 2008 | |
January 21, 2009 | Economic Recovery Must Include Transit | |
January 21, 2009 | Investment in Public Transit will Lead to Job Creation | |
January 20, 2009 | The End of Our Long National Nightmare | |
January 20, 2009 | Why I Am Running for California Democratic Party Chair | |
January 20, 2009 | Can Obama Bail Out our Democratic Institutions? | |
January 20, 2009 | Who Deserves An Organ Transplant And Who Should Decide? | |
January 20, 2009 | Is the Cal Chamber Becoming Irrelevant? | |
January 19, 2009 | Dream Time | |
January 19, 2009 | State Going Bankrupt but Governor Still Gives Plum Jobs to Cronies | |
January 19, 2009 | Moderate Republicans Need to Step Up to Save Education | |
January 19, 2009 | Sarah Palin Never Sang "Baby Beluga" to Her Children | |
January 18, 2009 | They’re Just Not That Into You, George | |
January 18, 2009 | Proposition 8: An Irrational Assault on Civil Liberties, the 1st Amendment, and Gays | |
January 17, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Democrats Stress Need for Serious Negotiation and Partnership to Solve Budget Crisis | |
January 17, 2009 | Hundreds Protest Against Governor’s Spending Cut Proposals | |
January 17, 2009 | Finally, We Have an Administration That Understands the Urgency of the Home Foreclosure Problem | |
January 17, 2009 | Controller Announces Payment Delays | |
January 16, 2009 | Democratic Leaders Respond to Governor’s State of the State Address | |
January 16, 2009 | CAVALA: Can the Government Regulate the Content of Spending in Ballot Measure Campaigns? | |
January 16, 2009 | Policies Leave Working Californians with Poor Compensation and Care | |
January 16, 2009 | Governor’s Policies Leave Working Families Worse Off | |
January 16, 2009 | Governor’s Proposed Budget is “Disaster” for Schools | |
January 15, 2009 | Text of State of the State Address | |
January 15, 2009 | CAVALA: Prop 8 Proponents Could Find Legal Protection From The First Amendment | |
January 15, 2009 | Single Payer Promotes Economic Recovery as Well as Solving the Healthcare Nightmare | |
January 15, 2009 | State of the People is Grim: More Budget Cuts Are Exactly the Wrong Prescription | |
January 15, 2009 | O'Connell Criticizes UC Cuts in Enrollment | |
January 15, 2009 | Democratic Leadership Presents Green Economic Stimulus Plan: California Jobs, Shovel-Ready Projects, Greening the Economy | |
January 15, 2009 | Schwarzenegger Continues End Run to Build the Peripheral Canal | |
January 14, 2009 | Crisis Hasn't Registered on Many Californians | |
January 14, 2009 | California Leads the Way on Farm Animal Welfare | |
January 14, 2009 | Steinberg Announces Committee Assignments | |
January 13, 2009 | Proposed Cuts to Regional Centers Will Have Major Impact on Disabled Population | |
January 13, 2009 | California Faces Bankruptcy and IOUs | |
January 13, 2009 | Steinberg Announces New Appointments | |
January 13, 2009 | Schrag: What Does the Future of Journalism Hold | |
January 13, 2009 | We Can Still Learn Lessons From the Roosevelts | |
January 12, 2009 | CAVALA: An Old Warrior May Bring New Energy To The Democratic Party. Burton Rides Again. | |
January 12, 2009 | Metrolink Safety Panel’s Action Cause For Renewed, But Cautious, Optimism | |
January 12, 2009 | Preventing Gun Violence in California is Paramount | |
January 12, 2009 | Donner Summit and the South Yuba River- Stewardship, or Sewership? | |
January 12, 2009 | Blago for Majority Leader | |
January 11, 2009 | In the Real World, Economic Meltdown Has Consequences | |
January 10, 2009 | Weekly Radio Address: Legislative Efforts to Aid Unemployed | |
January 10, 2009 | BART Needs Police Oversight | |
January 10, 2009 | Burton To Become New Chair of CDP | |
January 9, 2009 | The Governor and Every Legislator Need To Attend a Local School Board Meeting | |
January 9, 2009 | Senator Yee and Assemblyman Ammiano Announce Legislation to Provide Better Accountability and Oversight of BART Police | |
January 9, 2009 | Romero’s in Cong-32 Exit Clears the Way for Chu-Cedillo Match Up | |
January 9, 2009 | Legislative Analyst Projects Darker Budget Outlook | |
January 9, 2009 | Speaker Bass Responds To Obama Stimulus Package | |
January 9, 2009 | Governor’s Delta Plan Gains Support from Nature Convervancy | |
January 8, 2009 | California’s Failure to Invest in Higher Education Gives the State Little Hope for Economic Prosperity in the 21st Century Global Economy | |
January 8, 2009 | Governor Flopping All Over the Place on Budget | |
January 8, 2009 | It’s About Hope – Again | |
January 8, 2009 | The Need For Smart and Sustainable Growth in the San Joaquin Valley – Act II | |
January 8, 2009 | O’Connell Writes Obama to Urge Funding For Education Priorities in Economic Stimulus Package | |
January 7, 2009 | Governor's Veto Leaves Uncertainty in Growing Budget Crisis | |
January 7, 2009 | Senator Leader Darryl Steinberg Perplexed by Governor’s Inaction on Democratic Proposal | |
January 7, 2009 | AB 89 Provides Money For Education, Children's Healthcar, and Anti-Smoking Programs | |
January 7, 2009 | Prosecutors, Cops and Judges: Ready to Ditch California’s Death Penalty | |
January 7, 2009 | Committee Does Bidding of Central Valley Agribusiness in Pushing for Canal | |
January 6, 2009 | Obama’s Pick of Panetta for CIA Director Draws Array of Responses | |
January 6, 2009 | Is Budget Plan by Democrats in Legal Jeopardy? | |
January 6, 2009 | Great Priests Have Helped Me Immeasurably Throughout My Life | |
January 5, 2009 | The Holidays Are Over, Now When Are We Going to Get Serious? | |
January 5, 2009 | Cavala: Should the Legislature Be Tanked Because 15% Of Their Staff Obtain Raises And Others Get “Plumb Jobs” as Lobbyists? | |
January 5, 2009 | California in Desperate Need of a Stimulus Package | |
January 5, 2009 | California is in Desperate Need of a Gas Tax | |
January 4, 2009 | Peripheral Canal May Be Built without Legislative or Voter Consent | |
January 4, 2009 | This is No Time For Republican-led White Backlash in California | |
January 3, 2009 | Governor Offers Up Parole for Nonviolent Offenders | |
January 3, 2009 | The Need for Smart and Sustainable Growth in the San Joaquin Valley | |
January 2, 2009 | CAVALA: Proposition 8 – why did it prevail? | |
January 2, 2009 | Governor’s Plan Imperils Education For California | |
January 2, 2009 | Consumer Protection Bills Going into Effect on January 1, 2009 | |
January 2, 2009 | The fallout from Heller in California | |
January 1, 2009 | Speaker Bass Addresses Governor’s Proposal and Budget Crisis Issue in Wednesday Press Conference | |
January 1, 2009 | Governor Calls for Over $17 Billion in Spending Cuts | |
January 1, 2009 | Year in Review: A Rough, Tough Year for Health Care | |
January 1, 2009 | Time To End Term Limits | |
January 1, 2009 | The “Bush Effect” – Hopefully for a Third and LAST Time | |
December 31, 2008 | Garamendi Expresses Deep Concerns About State in Speech | |
December 31, 2008 | Controller Warns IOUs Will Come Unless There is a Budget Deal | |
December 31, 2008 | Court Hands Opponents of Three Strikes a Victory | |
December 31, 2008 | Trout Plant Ban Will Have Wide Ranging Impact | |
December 31, 2008 | Woodburning: Why Burning Less Saves Lives | |
December 30, 2008 | Schrag: A Series of Bad Decisions Have Compounded Current Crisis | |
December 30, 2008 | Drilling Off-Shore will Only Harm Us | |
December 30, 2008 | Learning From Our Past to Deal with the Current Crisis | |
December 29, 2008 | Moving Closer to Long Shot Budget Deal in a Broken System | |
December 28, 2008 | WSJ Column Claims Prop 8 Donors Being Victimized | |
December 28, 2008 | What Message Does Camera Surveillance of Metrolink Locomotive Crews Send? | |
December 27, 2008 | New state law brings legitimate massage therapy into the mainstream | |
December 26, 2008 | Cavala: A Modest Proposal | |
December 26, 2008 | Salmon Disaster Relief Application Deadline Is December 31 | |
December 26, 2008 | Parks Foundation Dreams of Well-Funded, Accessible and Well-Protected State Park System for the New Year | |
December 24, 2008 | Report: Cutting Key Budget Items During Time of Need | |
December 24, 2008 | Leaders to Continue Talks After Christmas | |
December 24, 2008 | Spending Cuts Will Hurt Worse Than Tax Hikes | |
December 24, 2008 | California Needs a New Clemency System | |
December 24, 2008 | State Health Boards Need to Improve Education for Dealing with Sexual Misconduct | |
December 24, 2008 | Controller Seeks Federal Guarantee to Restart Public Works Projects | |
December 23, 2008 | Controller Chiang’s Letter to Governor, Legislative Leaders Warns of Worsening State Cash Position | |
December 23, 2008 | Schrag: Is California Really Two States? | |
December 23, 2008 | Public Transportation Budget Cuts Illegal and Short-Sighted | |
December 23, 2008 | Democratic Leaders Respond To Governor’s Press Conference | |
December 23, 2008 | Despite Egalitarianism America Deifies Wealth | |
December 22, 2008 | Media Acquiescence Allows Governor to Move Forward with Reckless Agenda | |
December 22, 2008 | Despite Fiscal Problems, Governor Continues to Advocate for Peripheral Canal | |
December 22, 2008 | Urgency Needed For Public Transit Overhaul | |
December 21, 2008 | UC Must End Poverty Wages for AFSCME Workers | |
December 21, 2008 | Banks Target the Working Poor During Fiscal Crisis | |
December 21, 2008 | Looking To Green the California Budget | |
December 20, 2008 | Weekly Radio Address: Governor Schwarzenegger Needs to Sign Fiscal Package | |
December 20, 2008 | Republicans Using Budget Crisis To Destroy Labor and Environment | |
December 20, 2008 | Budget Stalemate Heavily Impacts Californians with Disabilities | |
December 20, 2008 | Democrats Respond to Governor’s Executive Order Furloughing State Workers | |
December 19, 2008 | In a Stunning Reversal, AG Brown Urges SC to Overturn Prop 8 | |
December 19, 2008 | Labor Applauds Selection of Hilda Solis to Secretary of Labor | |
December 19, 2008 | Democratic Leadership Respond to the Governor’s Veto Threat | |
December 19, 2008 | Reduction Needed in the Number of People in Prison | |
December 19, 2008 | New State Law Brings Legitimate Massage Therapy Into The Mainstream | |
December 19, 2008 | Delay in Resolving Crisis will have Major Impact on People with Disabilities, Mental Health Needs, Seniors | |
December 18, 2008 | Democrats: If You Won’t Join Us, We’ll Solve This Ourselves | |
December 18, 2008 | Democratic Plan Addresses Budget By Majority Vote | |
December 18, 2008 | Assemblymember Beall Addreses Foster Care System | |
December 18, 2008 | Failure to Resolve Budget Crisis Harms Economic Recovery Efforts | |
December 18, 2008 | Assembly Continues To Try To Find Budget Solution | |
December 17, 2008 | Chiang: Vote to Halt Financing of Public Works Projects Painful | |
December 17, 2008 | Cavala: Nostalgia for the Lost Days of ‘Moderate’ Republicanism (The “Lost Cause”?) | |
December 17, 2008 | Republican Budget: Too Many Myths & Cuts | |
December 17, 2008 | Speaker Bass Disappointed Republicans Blocked Budget Package | |
December 17, 2008 | Assemblymembers Huffman and Denham Launch Bi-Partisan Effort to Halt California’s Death Row Expansion | |
December 17, 2008 | Media Coverage Shames Dollar Tree to Do the Right Thing in Case of Employee Death | |
December 16, 2008 | Democratic Legislative Leaders Respond to Republican Proposal | |
December 16, 2008 | Schrag: Note To Republicans 1977 Is Over | |
December 16, 2008 | Will Obama’s Economic Team Really Bring the Change We Need? | |
December 16, 2008 | The Mitch Who Stole Christmas | |
December 16, 2008 | Electoral College: California Selects Obama | |
December 15, 2008 | Cavala: Scandal Hits Sacramento Animal Shelter | |
December 15, 2008 | Senate Majority Leader Florez urges Henry Paulson to invest in California | |
December 15, 2008 | Conservatives Use Proposition 8 To Continue To Foster Cult of Victimhood | |
December 15, 2008 | California High-Speed Rail “Comin’ Around The Mountain,” A Mountain Named Fresno, That Is | |
December 14, 2008 | Legislators Playing a Dangerous Game of Chicken with the Budget | |
December 14, 2008 | Record California Voters in November General Election | |
December 13, 2008 | Democratic Radio Address: Democratic Budget Initiatives | |
December 13, 2008 | Obama Still Weighing Options For Secretary of Interior Position | |
December 13, 2008 | Oropeza Bill Deals With Hunger and Waste | |
December 12, 2008 | Republican Feud Belies The Reality of the Severity of the Current Economic Crisis | |
December 12, 2008 | Budget Crisis Means Cuts To Vital Health Services For California | |
December 12, 2008 | Recent Spill in Santa Barbara Channel Should Cause us to Revisit Issue of Increased Offshore Oil Drilling | |
December 12, 2008 | Consumer Federation of California Releases 2008 Scorecard for Legislators | |
December 12, 2008 | How the Plaxico Burress Gun Case Involves California Gun Law | |
December 11, 2008 | Governor: California is Heading “Toward Financial Armageddon” | |
December 11, 2008 | Governor Remarks on Budget Crisis | |
December 11, 2008 | Schwarzenegger's theft of Part B benefits from Social Security/ Medicare benefits | |
December 11, 2008 | California Economic Crisis Jeopardizes Obama Infrastructure Goals | |
December 11, 2008 | Delta Pollution Results in Stunted and Deformed Baby Striped Bass | |
December 11, 2008 | New Republican Leader Hijacks Democrats and Forces Republican Demands on Budget Process | |
December 10, 2008 | Air Board Must Make Land Use Reform Part of The Climate Change Program | |
December 10, 2008 | Attorney General Opposes $250 million “Down-Payment” for Massive Prison Plan | |
December 10, 2008 | Lax recycling programs for toxic televisions endanger public health and the environment | |
December 10, 2008 | California Progressives Share Concerns About Obama Economic Team | |
December 10, 2008 | Human Rights Violations in California’s Own Backyard | |
December 10, 2008 | Paving the Way For Reduced Sprawl | |
December 9, 2008 | Speaker Bass: “Some of my colleagues… are in denial” | |
December 9, 2008 | Controller John Chiang Calls For Immediate Action to Avoid Economic Catastrophe | |
December 9, 2008 | California Treasurer Warns of Severity of Crisis Facing California | |
December 9, 2008 | How Will California's Marijuana Laws Fare Under An Obama Administration? | |
December 9, 2008 | Reminiscing on the End of Mervyn’s | |
December 8, 2008 | Introducing David Greenwald, New California Progress Report Editor | |
December 8, 2008 | Republicans Struggling in California | |
December 8, 2008 | Cities File Amicus Briefs in Lawsuit to Invalidate Proposition 8 | |
December 8, 2008 | Mortgage Bankers Association Report: The Foreclosures Continue in California and the Nation | |
December 8, 2008 | Cal-PERS and the Coming Attack on Public Workers in California | |
December 8, 2008 | A Legal Explanation of the Plaxico Burress Situation | |
December 7, 2008 | Holiday Season Thoughts About the California Prisons | |
December 7, 2008 | The Green Way Out of the Ditch for California | |
December 7, 2008 | Steinberg Takes the Reins of the California Senate, Signals Focus On Green Economy | |
December 7, 2008 | Darrell Steinberg’s Floor Speech Upon Assuming the Leadership of the California State Assembly: Meeting the Challenges of California in Troubled Times | |
December 7, 2008 | A Gift of Public Funds? Will Placer County Give Developers an Early Christmas Present? | |
December 6, 2008 | Media Consolidation: The Death of Information | |
December 6, 2008 | A Preview of Monday’s Joint Session of California Legislature on Budget: Speaker Bass Calls for Republican Cooperation | |
December 6, 2008 | Senate Budget Subcommittees Appointed, Will Hold Hearings Next Week Wednesday After Monday’s Rare Joint Session | |
December 5, 2008 | The Alarm Will Sound Monday Around 3 P.M. | |
December 5, 2008 | Provide CPR for California - End the Crisis | |
December 5, 2008 | Nunez and the Revolving Door | |
December 5, 2008 | Insurance for Insurance | |
December 5, 2008 | State Budget Gaps Balloon to $97 Billion | |
December 5, 2008 | California Tax Changes: Math versus Strategy | |
December 4, 2008 | Today’s California College Students: Indentured Servants? | |
December 4, 2008 | California Must Find the Funds to Feed Students | |
December 4, 2008 | PPIC Prop 8 Poll: Republicans and Evangelicals Motivated to Win | |
December 4, 2008 | Two Views on the Failure of the Campaign to Defeat Prop 8 and Optimism for Building a Structure for Victory in 2010 | |
December 4, 2008 | Democrats Propose Majority Vote for California State Budget, Speaker Creates Accountability Committee | |
December 4, 2008 | Congressional Candidate Charlie Brown Concedes, Thanks Supporters, and Reflects on What Was Accomplished | |
December 4, 2008 | Looking Beyond Funding In Education Reform | |
December 4, 2008 | Shifting Economy Keeps States Guessing and Budgets in Trouble | |
December 4, 2008 | California State Board Revokes Auburn Dams Water Rights: A Victory for Many Friends of the American River | |
December 3, 2008 | SEIU's Realistic California Budget | |
December 3, 2008 | Can California Make Progress on Health Care in a Tough Year With New Committee Chairs in Sacramento? | |
December 3, 2008 | Restore the Delta's 2009 Platform | |
December 3, 2008 | Nothing New From California's Yacht Party | |
December 3, 2008 | Ideological Purity Versus Helping States Get Out of the Ditch | |
December 3, 2008 | Schwarzenegger and Other Governors Hopeful Obama Economic Recovery Plan Will Have States as a Centerpiece | |
December 3, 2008 | Learning Lessons: California’s Budget Problems Won’t Be Solved in the Capitol | |
December 3, 2008 | Poor PHARMA | |
December 3, 2008 | California Groups File Suit to End Wasteful, Fish-Killing Delta Diversions | |
December 3, 2008 | Our Health Care Costs More and Treats Less | |
December 3, 2008 | Dream of 60 in U.S. Senate Dashed--But Progressives Look Ahead | |
December 2, 2008 | Somebody Call 911, It's a Fiscal Emergency According to Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
December 2, 2008 | California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass: These Are Not Ordinary Times | |
December 2, 2008 | Schrag: A Modest Proposal to Balance California’s Budget With No Tax Increases | |
December 2, 2008 | Darrell Steinberg’s First Day as President Pro Tem of the California Senate: A Sense of the Man | |
December 2, 2008 | Cavala: Bee Uses Hapless Staff as a Stick with Which to Beat the Legislature | |
December 2, 2008 | Ode to Mervyn's | |
December 2, 2008 | California State Budget Mess: Media Misses Republican Obstructionism | |
December 1, 2008 | From the New Publishers of the California Progress Report | |
December 1, 2008 | Standing in the Doorway of College Bound Californians | |
December 1, 2008 | Court Must Weigh Tyranny of the Majority in Ruling on Prop 8 | |
December 1, 2008 | It’s About Time to Change California’s Initiative Process | |
November 30, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger: Please Don’t Declare 2009 the Year of Anything | |
November 30, 2008 | Last Week’s California Budget Vote: Failure or First Step Toward Solutions? | |
November 30, 2008 | States Take Action to Stop Privatization Abuses and Reform Contracting Processes | |
November 30, 2008 | Dorothy’s Law: To Modernize Water Policy and Management in California | |
November 30, 2008 | Californians Know from Last Year’s Health Debate to Read the Fine Print From Insurers | |
November 29, 2008 | Don Perata’s Farewell Message as a Senator | |
November 29, 2008 | Should Have Grown Better: California Air Resources Board Asks Staff to Explore Stronger Action to Fight Global Warming By Reducing Sprawl | |
November 29, 2008 | California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Sees Republican Obstructionism in Tuesday’s Special Session Budget Vote | |
November 28, 2008 | The National Health Team Coming Together Has Many Californians | |
November 28, 2008 | The Future of Trains in Solving California’s Transportation Problems and the Larger Picture | |
November 28, 2008 | For The Record: Law Journal Articles Contemplate Future of California Dams | |
November 28, 2008 | 30 Years Ago and Today: Repealing Prop 8 | |
November 27, 2008 | Thanksgiving for Two Democrats Who Didn’t Make It: Congressional Candidate Charlie Brown and State Senate Contender Hannah-Beth Jackson | |
November 27, 2008 | Much to Be Thankful for in California and the Nation | |
November 27, 2008 | Thanksgiving for UC Funding for Labor Center | |
November 27, 2008 | Thanksgiving for Two Who Stood for Hope | |
November 27, 2008 | Thanksgiving for Alyson Huber, the Newest Elected Member of the California Assembly | |
November 27, 2008 | The Government Must Bail Out Blogs | |
November 26, 2008 | Cavala: Should California’s Judges Be Exempted from the Rough and Tumble of Political Campaigns? | |
November 26, 2008 | Ted Lieu: “It’s the Foreclosures, Stupid” | |
November 26, 2008 | Democrat Alyson Huber Declared Winner in California Assembly District 10—Pickup Gives Democrats a 51 Vote to 29 Vote Majority in House | |
November 25, 2008 | California Budget Crisis: Democratic Proposal Calling for $8.1 Billion in Cuts and $8.1 Billion in New Revenues Including Restoring Vehicle License Fee Defeated – Governor Likely To Call Special Session of New Legislature | |
November 25, 2008 | Clarity Amidst the Chaos of the California Budget | |
November 25, 2008 | Why California Republican Lawmakers Are Wrong On Taxes | |
November 25, 2008 | Poizner Approves $115 Million Insurance Rate Hike for 2.5 Million California Homeowners | |
November 25, 2008 | As California Job Losses Mount, Laid-off Workers Need a Stronger Unemployment Safety Net | |
November 25, 2008 | Schrag: Some UC Campuses are More Equal Than Others | |
November 25, 2008 | No Pain, No Gain | |
November 24, 2008 | The California Assembly Should Not Seat Jim Nielson as a Member in District 2 Because He Clearly Does Not Live in the District | |
November 24, 2008 | We Need a Surge in the War Against Foreclosure Predators | |
November 24, 2008 | The Anti-Government Ideology That Caused San Diegans to Vote Against Protecting Their Own Property from Catastrophic Fires | |
November 24, 2008 | On Cabinet Picks, Obama Savvier than Progressive Critics | |
November 23, 2008 | The Rising Tide in California | |
November 23, 2008 | Cavala: Phillip Burton Sets the Stage for Henry Waxman’s Ascension to House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair | |
November 23, 2008 | Change We Can Believe In | |
November 23, 2008 | Waxman Has a Lot to Fix | |
November 23, 2008 | Consumer Watchdog Urges Reduction in California Stem Cell Board Size and Reforms in Agency's Scientific Review | |
November 23, 2008 | Captain Eo: Governor Schwarzenegger Releases New Slate Of Executive Orders On Global Warming | |
November 22, 2008 | Chevron’s Ramped Up Greenwashing Campaign | |
November 22, 2008 | California's Sleeping Giant - The Enormous Organizing Opportunity | |
November 22, 2008 | As Many California Native Fish Become Extinct, Angling Groups Hope for Fish Restoration Under Obama, Endorse Mike Thompson for Interior Secretary | |
November 22, 2008 | This Thanksgiving Thank California Agricultural Industry and Workers | |
November 21, 2008 | Charlie Brown Trails McClintock by Just 359 Votes and is Winning Provisional Ballots—Hope for Huber and Hannah-Beth Jackson--But Longer Odds | |
November 21, 2008 | California Budget Crisis: Sunday Floor Sessions Cancelled--Both Houses to Meet Tuesday | |
November 21, 2008 | The California State Budget and Local Impacts | |
November 21, 2008 | Why California Cannot Afford to Delay in Global Warming Reduction Actions—Naysayers Are Just Plain Wrong About Economics as They Were About Science | |
November 21, 2008 | An Economic Backdrop for Fiscal Reform in California | |
November 21, 2008 | The Undoing of the Vehicles License Fee: The Virginia Story as Applied to California | |
November 21, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 20 and Beyond--Who Will Be Secretary of State and US Attorney General? | |
November 20, 2008 | Health Insurance Plans Should Cover Smoking Cessation Programs | |
November 20, 2008 | Did AIG Confuse Me With Paris Hilton? More for the Yacht Class | |
November 20, 2008 | California Congressional Caucus Showing Leadership—It Will Be Needed on Health Care | |
November 20, 2008 | Mythbusting the African American Vote and Prop 8 | |
November 20, 2008 | Beyond Prop 8: Where Do We Go From Here? | |
November 20, 2008 | Waxman Wins Key Test Vote for Chair of House Energy Committee—If You Like Clean Air, Call Your Member of Congress | |
November 20, 2008 | Oil Severance Fee Would Ease California Budget Pain | |
November 20, 2008 | Last Essay from Senator Sheila Kuehl From the Capitol | |
November 20, 2008 | Prop 11, Prop 93, the California Democratic Council and the California Democratic Party | |
November 20, 2008 | Cutting Off Kids for Christmas: California Considers Wait Listing Children for Healthy Families Coverage | |
November 20, 2008 | The Race for Governor 2010: Who is California’s Barack Obama? | |
November 19, 2008 | Why the States Belong in the Stimulus Package | |
November 19, 2008 | A Clear and Present Danger: A Californian Finds Gaps in Consumer Communication from Financial Institutions | |
November 19, 2008 | California Wildfires and the Urgency of Combating Climate Change | |
November 19, 2008 | California Education Cuts in the Year After the “Year of Education” | |
November 19, 2008 | A Breeze of Fresh Air from Washington D.C. To California? Waxman and Dingell Battle Today--Reactions to Obama's Climate Remarks—Schwarzenegger Calls Them “Fantastic” | |
November 19, 2008 | Stronger Renewable Energy Goals For California: Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order and Where We Go From Here | |
November 18, 2008 | Dear Speaker Pelosi, Can California Have $25 Billion? | |
November 18, 2008 | California Democratic Party Meeting Last Weekend a Window to the Future and Areas That Need Improvement | |
November 18, 2008 | “Preparing California for a Changing Climate” and “Climate Policy at the Local Level: A Survey of California’s Cities and Counties,” Both Released by the Public Policy Institute of California is Our Site of the Day | |
November 18, 2008 | Save the Renter’s Tax Credit for Seniors Eliminated by Schwarzenegger’s Blue Pencil | |
November 18, 2008 | Schrag: The Knights Who Say “No” in California | |
November 18, 2008 | The California Budget Crisis-- Sunday Floor Sessions Scheduled—With Some Seats Still Too Close to Call New Legislature in Two Weeks Will Take Over | |
November 18, 2008 | There Is No Playbook For the Worst Economic Crisis Since the Great Depression. | |
November 18, 2008 | Protecting Privacy of Children, Rights of Parents Unfinished in California | |
November 17, 2008 | Bailing Out the States? | |
November 17, 2008 | UC Davis Study: Women Underrepresented in Businesses in California | |
November 17, 2008 | Jeff Ruch: The Most Dangerous Time of the Year Back Here in D.C. | |
November 17, 2008 | California is Not Alone: Three Western Governors Float Tax Hikes | |
November 17, 2008 | Cavala: Perata Cleared In Corruption Probe? | |
November 17, 2008 | Why the Prop 8 Protests Matter | |
November 16, 2008 | The California Progress Report Will Have a New Publisher and Editor—Frank Russo to Become Chief of Staff to Assemblymember Nancy Skinner | |
November 16, 2008 | Join the Impact: California’s Prop 8 Discrimination Becomes a National Issue | |
November 16, 2008 | Laird Opens California Special Session Budget Hearing: “Tough Decisions on Cuts and Taxes Means Legislators Should Avoid Drawing Lines in the Sand” | |
November 16, 2008 | So Much for Pledges and Taxes in California | |
November 16, 2008 | Cavala: Another Slap at California’s Italian-Americans as Schwarzenegger Seeks Elimination of “Columbus Day” Fete | |
November 16, 2008 | Garamendi as a Regent: Why Education Funding is Critical to Improving California’s Future Workforce and Economy | |
November 16, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Celebrates Klamath Dam Removal But Continues to Push for More Dams Destructive to the Delta | |
November 15, 2008 | Obama’s Secret Sauce and Echoes of the Future for the California Democratic Party | |
November 15, 2008 | Chair of California Assembly Banking Committee Outlines New Democratic Mortgage Reform Proposals | |
November 15, 2008 | Schwarzenegger’s UnStimulating Proposal: Attack on CEQA Is Bad News for California Environment, Economy | |
November 15, 2008 | Bleak California Budget News: Cuts, Caps Under Consideration | |
November 14, 2008 | The Ultimate Betrayal of California's Future | |
November 14, 2008 | The California Budget: Assembly Hearing This Morning—No Senate Hearings Scheduled—No Agreement From Leaders | |
November 14, 2008 | Regrets My Parents Didn’t Live Long Enough to See Barack Obama Elected President | |
November 13, 2008 | Sieglock Increases Lead in AD-10 But Many Sacramento Votes That May Favor Huber Not Counted | |
November 13, 2008 | A Marriage Equality Movement in California in Search of a Campaign | |
November 13, 2008 | “The Benefits of Meeting Federal Clean Air Standards in the South Coast and San Joaquin Valley Air Basins” is our site of the day | |
November 13, 2008 | Who Will Be Hurt in the California Budget Fight—And Has the Groundwork Been Laid for a Solution? | |
November 13, 2008 | A Depression-Style California State Budget | |
November 13, 2008 | Durston for Congress and the Democratic Deciders | |
November 13, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 20--Why Gun Rights Advocates Should Be Rooting For Prop 8 Foes to Win in Court | |
November 12, 2008 | Myth Busting Why Prop 8 Passed in California | |
November 12, 2008 | 2010 California Races Begin Before Votes Counted From 2008—Kamala Harris Announces for Attorney General—Field Poll Shows Feinstein Has Most Favorable Rating for Governor—Republicans Unknown | |
November 12, 2008 | LAO Report to Schwarzenegger: Time to Fix the VLF | |
November 12, 2008 | $2.40 in Costs to Deliver $1 Of Benefits: Your SDI Deductions Subsidize Workers’ Compensation in California | |
November 12, 2008 | California Budget Deficit Through June of 2010 Projected Now At $28 Billion--Legislative Budget Analyst Issues Warning--Assembly Budget Committee Will Meet Friday | |
November 12, 2008 | Schwarzenegger As A Failure - Will He Drag the State Down With Him? | |
November 11, 2008 | “Overview of the Governor’s Special Session Proposals” by the Legislative Analyst’s Office is our site of the day | |
November 11, 2008 | Reading the Tea Leaves on Vote Counts in Jackson-Strickland, Brown-McClintock, and Huber-Sieglock | |
November 11, 2008 | California Veterans Celebrate National Holiday by Joining Seniors and Disabled in Protesting Schwarzenegger Budget Cuts | |
November 11, 2008 | A Heckuva Way to Say Thanks to Our Veterans | |
November 11, 2008 | A Salute to Those Democrats Who Kept the Flame Alive Over the Years for Obama | |
November 11, 2008 | Schrag: California—Getting to the Future First, But Not in a Straight Line | |
November 10, 2008 | California Legislator Says Treasury Secretary Paulson Should Resign for Secret $140 Billion Windfall Given to Banks and Money Must Be Returned | |
November 10, 2008 | The Longer View of Same Sex Marriage in California and the Nation | |
November 10, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Says "Don't Give Up" On Equal Rights - One Week Late | |
November 10, 2008 | Progressive Congress Elected With Obama But Blue Wave Stopped in California Districts | |
November 10, 2008 | Extortion Threat Shows Importance of Protecting Prescription Drug Privacy in California and the Nation | |
November 10, 2008 | Going After Palin | |
November 10, 2008 | Time Seeping Out For Drainage Debacle? State Regulators Give 90 Days to Act on Half-Century Old Environmental Problem | |
November 9, 2008 | The Significance of Prop 2’s Victory: Veal Crates, Gestation Crates and Battery Cages Banned | |
November 9, 2008 | Californian Leads Diversity Outreach Seeking Obama Administration Appointees | |
November 9, 2008 | Blaming Black Voters for California Prop 8 Loss Is Wrong and Destructive | |
November 9, 2008 | Ralph Nader Used to Be My Hero | |
November 9, 2008 | Elation and Anticipation: Election Results to Set Stage For Environmental Opportunities in California in 2009 | |
November 9, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 19 – Why a Renewal of the 1994 Assault Weapon “Ban” is NOT Happening Unless Republicans Vote For It | |
November 9, 2008 | Intermittent Color Blindness | |
November 8, 2008 | Counting Madness: Democrat Huber Now Within 319 of Winning AD 10 From Republicans; Hannah-Beth Jackson’s Lead Grows in SD 19; and Charlie Brown Headed for Recount in Congressional Race | |
November 8, 2008 | California Speaker Bass and Assistant Majority Leader De León Discuss Tuesday’s Historic Election | |
November 8, 2008 | The Devil in the Details of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Mortgage Reform and Foreclosure Relief Proposal | |
November 7, 2008 | The 2008 California Environmental Scorecard Rates the Governor and State Legislators | |
November 7, 2008 | California 44th Congressional District Race Surprisingly Close—Democrat Hedrick Challenging Republican Incumbent Ken Calvert Asks for Help From Voters Who Received Provisional Ballots | |
November 7, 2008 | Proposition 8 May Have Won on Tuesday But the Fight for Gay Marriage Has Not Died and Will Not Die | |
November 7, 2008 | Cavala: Time to Take the Blinders Off on California Budget Realities | |
November 7, 2008 | Yes, California, There's Still a Budget Mess to Fix | |
November 7, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Cuts Would Mean Hundreds of Thousands of Californians Would Lose Health Coverage and Millions Would Lose Dental, Vision, Podiatry, And Other Vital Benefits | |
November 7, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Proposing Major Cuts To IHSS, SSI/SSP and Other Cuts in Health and Human Services | |
November 7, 2008 | An Example of Schwarzenegger’s Economic Stimulation? Mid-year Budget Ax Aimed at University of California and Higher Education System--Vital to California Economy | |
November 7, 2008 | Real Economic Plans Don’t Penalize Working Families: Schwarzenegger’s Trickle Down Won’t Stimulate California | |
November 7, 2008 | Tribes and Fishermen Say No to Warren Buffet’s Dams at Klamath River Hearing in Sacramento-- Speak Out Against Clean Water Permit for Klamath Dams | |
November 7, 2008 | The Amazing Transformation of Barack Obama in Republican Eyes | |
November 6, 2008 | Taxes: The Mouse That Never Roared in California | |
November 6, 2008 | “No on 8” – When Reactive Politics Become Losing Politics in California | |
November 6, 2008 | Governor Will Propose Emergency Budget Proposals Today-- Shortfall Swells To Over $11 Billion and Growing | |
November 6, 2008 | We Don’t Know How Many California Votes Are Not Yet Counted—But They Are in the Millions and Could Affect Close Proposition and Candidate Races | |
November 6, 2008 | Yes We Must--Keep Fighting for Civil Justice | |
November 6, 2008 | Obama’s Election: Hitting the Reset Button on the 21st Century | |
November 6, 2008 | Elections Bring New Green Energy to California – And America | |
November 6, 2008 | Prop 4: California Voters Defeat Parental Notification for Third Time—Three Strikes and You Are Out | |
November 6, 2008 | We Need To Harness the Hope and Determination of the Obama Victory Here In California to End Legislative Deadlock | |
November 6, 2008 | Message to Karl Rove: What Happens When You Overreach in Redistricting? You Lose Seats | |
November 5, 2008 | McClintock v. Brown Nailbiter in CA-04: "Missing Ballots" in Nevada County? | |
November 5, 2008 | A Powerful Coalition, Not a Bad Economy, Defeated Boone Pickens’ California Prop 10 | |
November 5, 2008 | Democrats Probably Have a Net Gain of Two California Assembly Seats and Maybe One in State Senate | |
November 5, 2008 | It May Be Weeks Before We Know the Winner of California Senate District 19 Between Democrat Hannah-Beth Jackson and Republican Tony Strickland | |
November 5, 2008 | The Los Angeles Times Interactive Proposition and Presidential Election Results is our site of the day | |
November 5, 2008 | Barack Obama and the Dawn of a New Progressive Era | |
November 5, 2008 | One California Senate and Seven Assembly Races Close—Democrats May Gain a Few Seats | |
November 5, 2008 | Charlie Brown-Tom McClintock Congressional Race in Northern California a Cliffhanger with Thousands of Provisional and Late Vote By Mail Ballots to be Counted—Appears to be the Sole House Democratic Pick-Up Possible in the Golden State | |
November 5, 2008 | California Props 8, 1A, 9, and 11 Lead, But Are Too Close to Call—Other Results on Ballot Measures | |
November 4, 2008 | Catch Me on CBS 5 Web Broadcast of National, California and Bay Area Election Results Tonight | |
November 4, 2008 | It’s Turnout, Baby! California Field Poll Shows Many Races, Including Proposition 8, Congress, and State Legislative Races Will Be Decided by Day of Election Voters | |
November 4, 2008 | The California Democratic Ticket—Polls Open 7 AM to 8 PM—Where to Vote and Other Election Day Information | |
November 4, 2008 | Could You Be Disenfranchised Over Something As Simple As Not Knowing Where To Vote? | |
November 4, 2008 | November 4, 2008: Judgment Day—About Us | |
November 4, 2008 | Schrag: An Agenda for California, Land of Wall to Wall Elections and Budgeting | |
November 4, 2008 | Voters are Rejecting Republican Ideology, Not Just Bush and McCain | |
November 4, 2008 | Cavala: Free Coffee If You Vote? What’s Wrong With That? | |
November 3, 2008 | Marriage Equality: Why Californians Should Say “I Do”-- and Oppose Proposition 8 | |
November 3, 2008 | Working Californians Pound the Pavement for Change | |
November 3, 2008 | Cavala: Does California’s Governor Have a Plan to Resolve Our Budget Problems? (Other Than Avoid Blame?) | |
November 3, 2008 | Chair of the California Democratic Party: It’s Now Time to Hand Deliver Your Ballot—Not Mail It—And Vote for Team Obama | |
November 3, 2008 | On the Eve of the U.S. Presidential Election | |
November 3, 2008 | Yes on Prop 1A—Here are the Reasons This Yolo County Voter Supports High Speed Rail Proposal for California | |
November 3, 2008 | Tomorrow: Could Dems Sweep? | |
November 3, 2008 | New Citizens—An Important Pool of Voters in California and the Nation That Should Not Be Ignored | |
November 2, 2008 | Last Minute Information to Make an Informed Decision on California Ballot Propositions | |
November 2, 2008 | A Clear Choice: California Senate Candidate Strickland Backs Bush on the Environment 100%– Hanna-Beth Jackson Opposes Him 100% | |
November 2, 2008 | How Obama is Doing It: What All Political Parties and Businesses Must Learn Before 2010 | |
November 2, 2008 | Obama, Schwarzenegger, Feinstein, and Bill Clinton Band Together and Urge Californians to Reject Intolerance and Vote No on Prop 8 | |
November 2, 2008 | California Energy and Fuel Ballot Props 7 and 10 Will Be Defeated if the Voters Know What They are Voting On | |
November 2, 2008 | Is Schwarzenegger Terminating Salmon Surveys? "The Fish Terminator" or "Conan the Riparian?" | |
November 2, 2008 | Why the “Newest” FDIC Foreclosure Relief Plan Is Likely to Fail But Another Concept Based on Alexander Hamilton’s “Assumption Plan” Might Well Succeed | |
November 1, 2008 | California Field Poll on Prop 4—Waiting Period and Parental Notification of Minor’s Termination of Pregnancy is Too Close to Call | |
November 1, 2008 | Years in the Making – The Democratic Ground Game Hits the Road | |
November 1, 2008 | Prop 3: Caring for our Children’s Health is a Moral Responsibility | |
November 1, 2008 | Departing Legislators Urge Californians to Vote in Historic Election | |
November 1, 2008 | Prop 5: The Sad Legacy of Bipartisan Failure on California Prison Policy | |
November 1, 2008 | California Voters: Beware of Last Minute Dirty Tricks by T. Boone Pickens and Company on Prop 10 | |
November 1, 2008 | California Sierra Club Urges You to Vote and Has Recommendations on Candidates and Ballot Propositions | |
November 1, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Administration Uses Announcement of Proposed Water Cuts to Push Canal and Dams | |
October 31, 2008 | Democrats Gain in Voter Registration in Key Congressional, Assembly and Senate Districts --17.3 Million Californians Registered To Vote | |
October 31, 2008 | Field Poll Released Today Still Shows Prop 8 to Eliminate Same Sex Marriage Rights in California Behind 44% to 49% Despite Massive Advertising Blitz | |
October 31, 2008 | Election 2008: Issues and Facts versus Attacks | |
October 31, 2008 | California Prop Watch | |
October 31, 2008 | Speaker of California Assembly Happy Governor Schwarzenegger is Creating Bipartisan Commission to Modernize State’s Revenue System | |
October 31, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Creates Budget Revenue Commission to Look at Out of Date Tax Laws and Make Recommendations by April 2009 | |
October 31, 2008 | CitizenSam Takes on Texas Oil Tycoon by Creating No on Proposition 10 Ad | |
October 31, 2008 | In California and the Nation, Make Election Day a Family Affair | |
October 30, 2008 | Sierra Club California Report Card Shows Many Green Donkeys, But Few Green Elephants in Our Midst | |
October 30, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Will Propose Major Cuts to Health and Human Services on Top of Education Cuts Announced Yesterday--Revenue Increases, Details Sketchy | |
October 30, 2008 | Building High-Speed Rail to Connect California | |
October 30, 2008 | Prop 5-- A Good Idea That Needs Some More Work | |
October 30, 2008 | Obama Landslide Predicted in California Field Poll—Largest Margin Since FDR—And There’s More—Effects Seen in Downticket Races | |
October 30, 2008 | Democratic National Committee Going for Broke in Senate and House Races--Others Need to Leave It on the Road | |
October 30, 2008 | I Helped Pay for That, Senator McCain | |
October 30, 2008 | The Final Push: How as a Californian You Make a Difference Beyond the White House | |
October 30, 2008 | PPIC Findings Show Record 70 Percent of Californians Support Direct Election of the President | |
October 30, 2008 | Reducing Air Pollution, Traffic Congestion and Sprawl: Time to Stop “Spinning ‘Our’ Wheels” and Re-Introduce Concepts That Work! | |
October 29, 2008 | Constitutional Law Professors Reject Arguments Made by California Proposition 8 Proponents | |
October 29, 2008 | A Special Session to Fire California’s Teachers | |
October 29, 2008 | The October Surprise Health Care Quote from the McCain Camp | |
October 29, 2008 | “No on 8” Must Stop Desperate Conservatives | |
October 29, 2008 | California Congressional District 4 Red to Blue? Bill Durston Gunning for Lungren’s Seat Gets Firepower from Lt. Governor John Garamendi and Former Republican Member of Congress Pete McCloskey | |
October 29, 2008 | Thou Shalt Not Lie--Mormon Proponents of Prop 8 Resort to Pinocchio Politics | |
October 29, 2008 | Political Robo Calls Illegal in California—If You Get Them, Call the National Political Do Not Contact Registry—And If You’re Missing Them, Check Out This Database | |
October 29, 2008 | Schwarzenegger: Major Education Cuts Coming--Will Call For Sales Tax Increase--Other Proposed Major Spending Cuts Likely | |
October 29, 2008 | California State Legislative Races--One Week Out | |
October 29, 2008 | Pinwheel Girl from Yes on 10 Ads says: “Vote No on Prop 10” | |
October 29, 2008 | Yes on Prop 5: Treating Addiction Is Public Safety Policy | |
October 29, 2008 | Plumbing the Truth | |
October 29, 2008 | Hockey Mom or Neiman Marxist? | |
October 28, 2008 | Cavala: New Registration Figures In San Diego Dims G.O.P. Chances | |
October 28, 2008 | Hidden Consequences of Bad California Budget Deal Earlier This Year Deserve Scrutiny | |
October 28, 2008 | Prop 8 is Illogical and Takes Rights Away | |
October 28, 2008 | Lessons of 1980 Bode Well for Obama and Downticket Dems in 2008 | |
October 28, 2008 | Are California’s Injured Workers Going to Have to Go to Federal Court to Enforce Their Rights Against Insurer Fraud? | |
October 28, 2008 | The Links Between Health Care, the Economy, and Foreclosures | |
October 28, 2008 | Schrag: Politician Bashing and Selling California Voters Cure All Solutions | |
October 28, 2008 | Destiny's Challenge: Barack Obama and Aspirations of the American People | |
October 28, 2008 | Special Session on California State Budget: Governor Will Call Session Nov 5th | |
October 28, 2008 | Republican Investment Banker and California Assembly Candidate Abram Wilson Sides With Buddies on Wall Street Over Citizens on Main Street | |
October 28, 2008 | California Trout Sees Mixed Outcomes for Wild and Native Fish at Close of 2008 Legislative Session | |
October 28, 2008 | Why I am opposed to McCain’s Tax Hike on the Palin Family | |
October 27, 2008 | Cavala: ‘Yes On 8’ Campaign Confuses Church and State and is Based on Lies | |
October 27, 2008 | California Congressional Campaign Update: Bounty of Close Races With One Week To Go | |
October 27, 2008 | T. Boone Pickens Dumps Nearly $19 Million into California Yes on 10 Campaign | |
October 27, 2008 | Study: Large Counties in Swing States May Face Election Day Problems--Lack of Preparation, Uniformity Could Cause Long Lines on Election Day | |
October 27, 2008 | The Importance of Making Sure Californians Vote the Last Two Hours on Election Day If Early Returns Show Obama Victory—What You Can Do | |
October 27, 2008 | Worst Campaign Ever—Maybe McCain Doesn’t Want the Job—Could You Blame Him? | |
October 27, 2008 | A Doctor Explains Why She Opposes California Prop 4 | |
October 27, 2008 | Cavala: The Republican Mantra As Reflected In a Sampling of GOP Voters | |
October 27, 2008 | Taking a Stand on Prop 8: Opposing It Is Just Plain Right | |
October 26, 2008 | Still Deciding on California Ballot Propositions? Sources of Information and Hundreds of Articles | |
October 26, 2008 | Sacramento Bee Endorses Charlie Brown for Congress—Confidential Republican Memo Says McClintock Likely to Lose Seat | |
October 26, 2008 | California Prop 8 Campaign Threatens Business Leaders: You Have to Read This Letter | |
October 26, 2008 | Ferial Masry Getting Help to Replace Republican in Assembly District 37 | |
October 26, 2008 | If California Voters Pass Proposition 6, We Have Learned Nothing | |
October 26, 2008 | Proposition 12: Cal-Vet Loan Program – YES | |
October 26, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 17--Legal and Political Developments – With a Focus on Republican Validators of Senator Obama | |
October 26, 2008 | Assembly Democrats to Schwarzenegger: Wake Up and Smell the Foreclosures—Special Session Should Deal With Mortgage Reform—Action Seen as Linked to Making Progress on the Budget | |
October 25, 2008 | Cavala: Could G.O.P. Candidate Nielson Be Refused a Seat in the Legislature Because of Residence Irregularities? | |
October 25, 2008 | A California Attorney Fills in the Rest of the Proposition 8 Story | |
October 25, 2008 | They Broke the Budget - Now They Want to Break California’s High Speed Rail Future | |
October 25, 2008 | California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Discusses Democratic Priorities for Economic Stimulus | |
October 25, 2008 | Cavala: New Tactic Authorized by the G.O.P.? Woman Files False Claim of Attack by a 6’ 4” ‘Black Obama Supporter’ | |
October 25, 2008 | Health Care: Pressure From All Sides | |
October 25, 2008 | BOOM! Witnessing the GOP Implosion | |
October 25, 2008 | It’s the Same Old Song on Wall Street: Deleveraging and the Discount Window | |
October 25, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 16--Legal and Political Developments – With a Focus on Republican Validators of Senator Obama | |
October 24, 2008 | Cavala: Have You Caught The “Chicken” Spot? | |
October 24, 2008 | California Prop 2: Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the Truth | |
October 24, 2008 | A Personal Message to Californians on Proposition 8 | |
October 24, 2008 | Presidential Candidates Graded on Women and the Economy | |
October 24, 2008 | Cavala: Black Voters Subject To Police Checks At Polling Place – Arrested For Unpaid Parking Tickets? | |
October 24, 2008 | You Know Foreclosures and the Economy Are Bad When… | |
October 23, 2008 | 911 for Voters With Problems | |
October 23, 2008 | California Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols Urges a No Vote on Prop 10 | |
October 23, 2008 | The Cousins McCain | |
October 23, 2008 | Electoral College Means Candidates Spoil Six Lucky States | |
October 23, 2008 | Elimination of Same Sex Marriage—Prop 8--Still Opposed by Majority of California Voters--Prop 4 on Parental Notification Close--Prop 11 on Redistricting Ahead But With Less Than a Majority | |
October 23, 2008 | Prop. 8: Whose “Traditional Marriage” Does It Protect? | |
October 23, 2008 | Obama Surges Another 13 Points in California to 56% to 33% Over McCain in PPIC Poll—Effects Seen on Downticket Races | |
October 23, 2008 | Environment California Supports Prop 1A and Obama for President; Opposes Props 7 and 10 | |
October 23, 2008 | On The Line: Westside Bypass, Eastside Bypass, Keep High-Speed Rail in the Middle. Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other? The Magic Number is Eight! | |
October 23, 2008 | Seniors Angry With Schwarzenegger Over Budget Cuts, Especially Renter’s Tax Credit | |
October 23, 2008 | Dealing With Residential Real Estate and Issues That Remain In the Financial Sector | |
October 22, 2008 | Think a Minute About All This Voter Registration Fraud Malarky Raised by Republicans on the Eve of the Election, Especially Here in California | |
October 22, 2008 | Happy Holidays: A National Foreclosure Moratorium | |
October 22, 2008 | Did Congressman Lungren Ignore Potential National Security Threat? | |
October 22, 2008 | California’s Senators and Members of Congress Lead Nation in Perfect Scores in 2008 Environmental Scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters | |
October 22, 2008 | On The Line: Westside Bypass, Eastside Bypass, Keep High-Speed Rail in the Middle. Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other? The Magic Number is Eight! | |
October 22, 2008 | Don't Be Fooled by Bogus Renewable Energy Measures--Props 7 and 10 Would Harm Clean Energy, Slow Fight Against Global Warming | |
October 22, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 16--Governor Rendell signs PA Anti-Trafficking Law; US Supreme Court Accepts Identity Theft Case With Gun Implications | |
October 21, 2008 | California: Fade the Red and Cue the Blue—Newly Registered Democratic Voters and Enthusiastic Turnout for Obama May Turn Heads--Downticket Races Ready to Flip | |
October 21, 2008 | All Hands on Deck for the Election—If Not Driving for Change, Stay in California for Change at Home | |
October 21, 2008 | Still Against Proposition 11 and So-called California Re-Districting "Reform" | |
October 21, 2008 | Reagan Revolution, RIP | |
October 21, 2008 | Schrag: California Voters Have Played a Role in Fantasy State Budgeting | |
October 21, 2008 | Obama Woos and Wins the “Forgotten Middle-Class” | |
October 21, 2008 | Republican Congress Member Bilbray in Danger of Losing San Diego Seat--Second Poll Shows Race with Democrat Leibham in Dead Heat in Obama Surge | |
October 21, 2008 | Lockyer and Chiang: Proposition 10 Will Harm California’s Financial Situation | |
October 21, 2008 | Efficiency: California’s Old-time Energy Religion | |
October 21, 2008 | The Vultures are Looking at Credit Card Debt and Commercial Real Estate Loans | |
October 20, 2008 | Lots of News on California Congressional and Legislative Races | |
October 20, 2008 | Impending GOP Losses Lead to Rage and Hate | |
October 20, 2008 | 10 Truths T. Boone Pickens Doesn't Want You to Know about the Pickens' Plan for California | |
October 20, 2008 | Cavala: FlashReport Provides Twice the ‘Coverage’ of a Local SEIU Scandal as to Colin Powell’s Support Of Obama? | |
October 20, 2008 | Behind the Orange Curtain in California Congressional District 46: Democrat Debbie Cook Seeks to Retire Dana Rohrabacker | |
October 20, 2008 | Save Marriage Equality in California | |
October 20, 2008 | A Progressive California Voter Guide Released by the Center for American Progress Action Fund | |
October 20, 2008 | Together We Can: Obama Campaign Makes Voting a Social Experience | |
October 20, 2008 | General Colin Powell's Endorsement of Barack Obama: What It Means | |
October 20, 2008 | Debunking the Prop 8 Myths of Protecting Children in California | |
October 20, 2008 | “Rationing”--A Red Herring in the Health Care Debate in California and the Presidential Campaign | |
October 20, 2008 | Cesar Chavez, the UFW and the Roots of Obama’s Field Campaign | |
October 19, 2008 | Cavala: Most Frontrunners Go On To Victory | |
October 19, 2008 | Turning Red Districts Blue: Will California Assembly Candidate Linda Jones’s Stealth Campaign Surprise the Antelope Valley? | |
October 19, 2008 | Last Call: Tomorrow is the Last Day to Register to Vote in California | |
October 19, 2008 | Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama for President of the United States | |
October 19, 2008 | Election Watchdog Group Compiles Stunning List of Recent 'Problems Facing Voters Nationwide' | |
October 19, 2008 | Memo to Congress and FCC on California Prop 10: Time to Revisit Fairness Doctrine | |
October 19, 2008 | That Wacky AIG | |
October 19, 2008 | Which Way Now? Questions Remain About Follow Up To California's New Law Linking Land Use and Global Warming | |
October 18, 2008 | Fighting Back Against the New Hoovers on California Infrastructure and High Speed Rail | |
October 18, 2008 | California's Prop 7 is Bad for Renewable Energy | |
October 18, 2008 | What Californians Can Do To Prevent Wildfires and Support Our Firefighters | |
October 18, 2008 | Final Draft of “Scoping Plan” For California Landmark Global Warming Law; Some Flaws Addressed, More Improvements Possible | |
October 18, 2008 | Time to Send the Banks to Group Therapy and Sleep Away Camp: 3 Steps to Force Inter-Bank Lending | |
October 17, 2008 | Cavala: Allegations Against “Acorn” Part of the National Republican Program to “Keep In the Vote”? | |
October 17, 2008 | Winning for Workers in California’s Battleground Districts | |
October 17, 2008 | Cavala: Wall Street Journal Article Clearly Outlines What Progressives Have At Stake on Election Day | |
October 17, 2008 | The Republicans Don't Want You to Vote -- Even in California | |
October 17, 2008 | Why Over 400 Distinguished California Professors Want Schwarzenegger’s Veto of University of California Labor Studies Reversed Next Year | |
October 17, 2008 | A Teachable Moment Missed on the Presidential Campaign Trail | |
October 17, 2008 | Democratic National Committee Pumping Money into Key State Legislature Races as Obama Has Increasing States in Play | |
October 17, 2008 | Plumbers, Employment, Health Care, and Frozen Credit Markets, UBS and the Financial Situation | |
October 16, 2008 | What About Josephine the Waitress? | |
October 16, 2008 | Easy-to-Use Voter Guide on California Ballot Propositions with Recommendations from Ten Leading Progressive Organizations Can Be Shared Online or Sent to Cell Phones | |
October 16, 2008 | Buy California Bonds | |
October 16, 2008 | It’s Going To Take a Lot More than Joe the Plumber | |
October 16, 2008 | California Full of Competitive Legislature Races in November | |
October 16, 2008 | Obama With the Wind at His Back | |
October 16, 2008 | Wolk Will Win in a Walk: Republicans Waive the White Flag of Surrender in California State Senate Race | |
October 16, 2008 | California Republican Congressional Seats Once Thought “Safe” Are Within Reach for Democrats | |
October 16, 2008 | Harmful Chemicals Found in Bottled Water: Walmart Sam's Choice Brand Exceeds Legal Limits in California | |
October 16, 2008 | Credit Markets Still Frozen: Yesterday’s Dow Tanking a Symptom of Overall Economic Weakness | |
October 15, 2008 | The Drive for Two-Thirds in the California Assembly-- Republicans Falling Off Into the Pacific | |
October 15, 2008 | Unregulated Bank Consolidation will Hurt Underserved Neighborhoods in California and Across the Nation | |
October 15, 2008 | This Is the Time to Increase the Pressure in California Congressional Races | |
October 15, 2008 | California’s Unemployment Fund Stingy and About to Be Out of Cash | |
October 15, 2008 | The Truth California Voters Should Know About Prop 4 | |
October 15, 2008 | State Legislative Races Tilting Dems' Way in '08 | |
October 15, 2008 | Ferial Masry Could Be California Assembly Democrats’ Seventh Pickup | |
October 15, 2008 | CAVALA: THAT SOUND REPUBLICANS HEAR IS THE FAT LADY SINGING… (And The Song Is ‘Happy Days Are Here Again’!) | |
October 15, 2008 | The Hate-Talk Express – Is This Really the Way You Want to Go Out, Senator McCain? | |
October 15, 2008 | McCain Faces Lose-Lose Scenario in Final Debate | |
October 15, 2008 | Why We Are Not Out Of the Woods: Treasury Plan Is UK Light and Still Does Not Deal With Toxic Assets As They Are | |
October 14, 2008 | “Propositions 1A and 3: Should California Authorize High-Speed Rail and Children’s Hospital Bonds?” by the California Budget Project is our site of the day | |
October 14, 2008 | Schrag: Yes on 8 Campaign Tries to Scare and Mislead Voters into Writing Ban on Same Sex Marriage into California Constitution | |
October 14, 2008 | Our Gilded Age Implodes: Will Democrats Fashion a New Social Contract, Rebuild America’s Foundation, and Restore Our Country to Prosperity? | |
October 14, 2008 | California’s State Budget and Our Economy Will Be Strengthened by Passage of Prop 1A and High Speed Rail | |
October 14, 2008 | We Need To Be Bold and Reject Calls for Neo Hooverism | |
October 13, 2008 | The “Hot Topics Guides to the California Propositions on the November 4, 2008 General Election Ballot” by the Institute for Governmental Studies is our site of the day | |
October 13, 2008 | How would McCain's and Obama's Policies Affect the States - Part 1 | |
October 13, 2008 | Arnold's Freedom to Choose: Subprime Lending Regulation and the Bubble in California | |
October 13, 2008 | California and the Nation’s Financial Mess: It’s About Transparency | |
October 13, 2008 | Conservatives Should Be Appalled by the Iraq War and the Administration’s Other Self-Destructive Policies on Terror | |
October 13, 2008 | Regarding California’s Deadliest Train Collision: What Was Learned and Done Thus Far and What May Lay Ahead | |
October 12, 2008 | Three Overlapping Seats Winnable in Central California Blue Wave: Congress, State Senate, and Assembly | |
October 12, 2008 | “Driven to Despair”--A Blueprint for America Episode of NOW on PBS--On California Sprawl and Transportation is Our Site of the Day | |
October 12, 2008 | Taking a Close Look at Prop 4, Californians Will Vote No—As They Have Two Times When Similar Measures Were on the Ballot | |
October 12, 2008 | Stuck in Traffic? Think a Moment on How Important High Speed Rail is to California | |
October 12, 2008 | Smashmouth Economics | |
October 12, 2008 | California Health Care Will Be Back in Many Ways With the New Year and a New Legislature | |
October 12, 2008 | Cavala: Do You Recall The Bush Plan To “Privatize” Social Security? (We’ll All Make Millions on the Stock Market) | |
October 12, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 15--Legal and Political Developments--With a Focus on Pennsylvania | |
October 11, 2008 | State Controller Chiang to Treasury Secretary Paulson: Transparency Key to Credit Market Fix for California, Local Governments, and the Nation | |
October 11, 2008 | Discussions to Protect California’s Budget During the Financial Crisis Outlined by Speaker Bass and Assembly Budget Chair Laird | |
October 11, 2008 | From the Long List of Environmental Vetoes: Governor Schwarzenegger Rejects Recycled Water Bill, Goes Soft On Water Softeners | |
October 11, 2008 | Latest on the Financial Meltdown--Time for a Klehs Law on Inter-Bank Lending--President Obama Will Need To Push For Return To Traditional Pensions | |
October 11, 2008 | Governor's Green Rhetoric Contrasts with His Anti-Environmental Actions and the Collapse of California’s Fisheries | |
October 10, 2008 | Under McCain Plan Over 2.4 Million Californians Would Lose On-the-Job Health Benefits | |
October 10, 2008 | Cavala: More Fallacious Arguments on Prop 11 – The Governor’s Redistricting Scheme Debunked | |
October 10, 2008 | Seeing Through the Blue Shield Smokescreen: Drug Switching Most Certainly Does Place Minorities at Risk | |
October 10, 2008 | California is Not Alone in Budget Crisis and Credit Crunch Caused by National Economic Meltdown | |
October 10, 2008 | Proposition 2: Views Fit to Print | |
October 10, 2008 | Cavala: L.A. Times Columnist Wrong About Public Input into Legislative Redistricting | |
October 10, 2008 | Coalition of “EVERYONE” Launches No on 10 Campaign | |
October 10, 2008 | High-Speed Rail: Californians and Americans Just Don’t Know What We’re Missing | |
October 10, 2008 | Sarah Palin: The Gift that Keeps on Giving | |
October 10, 2008 | With the McCain Sideshow Off the Table, the Fed Needs to Focus on Creation of Two New Clearinghouses – and the Imposition of Barbara Greenwald Rules on AIG | |
October 9, 2008 | Proposition 1A: High-Speed Rail Bonds ($10 Billion) – YES | |
October 9, 2008 | My Semi-Biennial Lecture on California Bonds | |
October 9, 2008 | The Swing States of America: Continuing Evidence of the Need for Electoral College Reform | |
October 9, 2008 | No on Proposition 6—A Special Interest Raid on California’s Treasury | |
October 9, 2008 | California Campaign Update: Selected Congressional and State Senate Races | |
October 9, 2008 | The McCain Mortgage Proposal Implodes, Court Action on Mortgages and Bailouts, and the Fed Rate Cuts | |
October 8, 2008 | We Must Start Treating Health Care as a Right | |
October 8, 2008 | Cavala: Billionaire Republican Donates $200,000 in Support of the Governor’s Redistricting Scheme | |
October 8, 2008 | Coalition Says Governor Schwarzenegger Should Add Subprime Mortgage Crisis to Special Session on California Budget | |
October 8, 2008 | The New Apollo Program Takes New Path to Reverse Rising Unemployment, Quell Runaway Energy Costs, and Combat Climate Change | |
October 8, 2008 | The Subliminal Slam-Dunk Debate Win for Obama Over McCain | |
October 8, 2008 | Beyond the Bailout --Notes On the Coming Sharecropper Society | |
October 8, 2008 | Hold the Presses: McCain “New Mortgage Proposal” Is Existing Law but Will Jam the Treasury Left in Implementing TARP | |
October 7, 2008 | As Another Special Session on Budget Looms, Senator Asks if California Can “Bail Out Ourselves” By Retirement System Purchase of State’s Short-Term Debt | |
October 7, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Thinks Jerry Brown Has Best Shot at Being Next California Governor if Obama Wins Presidency | |
October 7, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Should Call Special Session on California’s Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis Linked to Our Budget Problems | |
October 7, 2008 | If It Were up To Them We’d Still Be in the Depression | |
October 7, 2008 | Schrag: The Problems with Prop 4 on Parental Notification | |
October 7, 2008 | With Friends Like New York Times Columnists Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd And Frank Rich – Does Barack Obama Need Enemies? | |
October 7, 2008 | California Budget Crisis – Again-- Possible Special Session on State Budget | |
October 7, 2008 | Why McCain’s Attack Strategy Will Backfire | |
October 6, 2008 | Attorney General Brown Announces Largest Predatory Lending Settlement in History: $8.68 Billion in Home Loans and Foreclosures Relief Nationally—Up to $3.5 Billion to Californians—From Countrywide Financial Corporation | |
October 6, 2008 | Hannah-Beth Jackson Has the Goods on Tony Strickland in Pivotal California Senate Seat Race | |
October 6, 2008 | Proposition 5: We Need to Fix the Drug Court System | |
October 6, 2008 | Turning a Red California District Blue: Is the Third Time a Charm for Ferial Masry and the Sixth Seat for Democrats to Gain Two-Thirds in the Assembly? | |
October 6, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 14 – The U.S. Senate Holds H.R. 6842 and California Holds SB 327 | |
October 5, 2008 | Cavala: Competitive Legislative Seats Do Not Produce “Moderate” Lawmakers | |
October 5, 2008 | In California’s 5th Senate District Race Democrat Wolk Should Win | |
October 5, 2008 | Insurance Industry Sabotages Injured Workers in California | |
October 5, 2008 | Californians Have World's Highest Levels of Toxic Flame Retardants in Their Homes and In Their Bodies | |
October 5, 2008 | Cavala: Stop The Presses! Republican Lawmakers In California Socialized With Nortorious “Chicago 7” Radical. (Obviously, They Are Unfit To Serve). | |
October 5, 2008 | Report Finds High-Speed Rail Will Bring 48,000 New Jobs to the Bay Area, Reduce Emissions by 12 Billion Pounds | |
October 5, 2008 | Health Insurers Do Not Endanger California Patient Safety By Pressuring Doctors to Switch to Lower Cost Drugs | |
October 4, 2008 | The Governor’s Vetoes of Mortgage Legislation as California’s Foreclosures Harm U.S. Economy | |
October 4, 2008 | Governor Palin's Debate Performance: All Hat and No Cattle | |
October 4, 2008 | Next Let's Have a Bailout For Our Broken Health Care System | |
October 4, 2008 | Where We Go From Here on the Bailout—AKA “Financial Rescue Bill” | |
October 3, 2008 | In California October 20 is the Deadline to Register to Vote—Send This to 5 Friends | |
October 3, 2008 | Big Developments in California’s Youth Vote | |
October 3, 2008 | The California Voter Foundation’s new California Online Voter Guide is Our Site of the Day | |
October 3, 2008 | Lieu: Governor Needs to Take Action on Foreclosure Crisis Which Has Caused California to Ask to Borrow $7 Billion from the Feds | |
October 3, 2008 | Credit Crisis Causes California Cash Crunch | |
October 3, 2008 | Governor’s Ill-Considered Veto Harms Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Students in California | |
October 3, 2008 | Veto Washes Out Key California Water Bill | |
October 3, 2008 | Proposition 9: Victims' Role in Criminal Proceedings – NO | |
October 3, 2008 | California’s Three Major Taxpayer Organizations Join Environmental Groups in Urging No Vote on Prop 10 | |
October 3, 2008 | Why the ERISA Ruling in San Francisco is a Big Deal for Health Care Reform | |
October 3, 2008 | Advantage Biden | |
October 2, 2008 | Cavala: Republicans Should Seek High Ground--Political Tsunami of Historic Proportions Is Approaching | |
October 2, 2008 | Schwarzenegger’s Record Number of Vetoes is Nothing for Him or Californians to Be Proud About | |
October 2, 2008 | Cavala: Federal Indictment of Orange County Republican Is Another Example of Degradation of the U.S. Attorney’s Office | |
October 2, 2008 | The Senate :Rescue Bill"--Including What the Bow and Arrow Issue Is All About | |
October 2, 2008 | Democratic Challenger Durston Hits Lungren for Big Oil and Big Banking Contributions and Votes in California Congressional District 3 Race | |
October 2, 2008 | Proposition 7: Renewable Energy Targets for All Utilities – NO | |
October 2, 2008 | Assemblymember Ted Lieu: “Governor Schwarzenegger Continues a ‘Hands Off, Do Nothing’ Approach to Foreclosure Crisis That Occurred On His Watch" | |
October 2, 2008 | Can We Survive Minority Rule in Washington D.C. and California? | |
October 2, 2008 | At Last --- A Victory for Decency Over Dogma as California Right to Know End-of-Life Options Act Becomes Law | |
October 2, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Reiterates Support for Prop 1A | |
October 1, 2008 | Top Environmental Bills Signed and Vetoed By Governor Schwarzenegger | |
October 1, 2008 | Bring the California Legislature Back to Override Some of the Governor’s Vetoes | |
October 1, 2008 | Campaign Finance Reform Measure To Appear On California June 8, 2010 Ballot | |
October 1, 2008 | Amidst the Vetoes, Arnold Schwarzenegger Revolutionizes Land Use Law in California | |
October 1, 2008 | Senate First Strategy May Not Get the House in Order to Pass Financial Bill | |
October 1, 2008 | Cavala: Governor Signs Law Ending Private Political Contributions for California Secretary of State | |
October 1, 2008 | The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen | |
October 1, 2008 | Some Surprising Advances and Many Disappointments in Schwarzenegger Vetoes on Final Day | |
October 1, 2008 | Life Threatening Veto of SB 974, Port Clean Up Bill, Leaves Californians Gasping For Air and Stuck in Traffic | |
October 1, 2008 | Bloodbath: Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Many Health Consumer Bills | |
October 1, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill to Ban Cancer-Causing Teflon Chemicals in Food Packaging | |
October 1, 2008 | An Urgent Message to Health Insurers From a California Doctor: In Medicine, One Size Does Not Fit All | |
October 1, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Vetoes Fish Rescue Plans Bill, Campaigns For Water Policies That Would Destroy Delta | |
September 30, 2008 | Senator Sheila Kuehl on Schwarzenegger Vetoes of Health Bills—Universal Health Care, Rescission, Balance Billing—and the Absence of Reform | |
September 30, 2008 | We'll Be At It Again Next Year: Some Good Health Bills Vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger | |
September 30, 2008 | Payday Lending: Taking the Pay Out of Payday by the California Budget Project is our Site of the Day | |
September 30, 2008 | There's Another Sarah On the California Ballot – And She Should Be Defeated Too | |
September 30, 2008 | Eleventh in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The "Trailer" Bills | |
September 30, 2008 | 300 Bills to Live or Die Today by Governor Schwarzenegger’s Pen | |
September 30, 2008 | New Poll Shows California Proposition 2 on Treatment of Farm Animals Leading 72% to 10% | |
September 30, 2008 | Field Poll on California Prop 3—Children’s Hospitals Bond Ahead But With Low Voter Awareness | |
September 30, 2008 | President Obama’s Inaugural Address Should Borrow a Page from FDR on Wall Street Greed and Role of Government | |
September 30, 2008 | Schrag: California Needs “Dream Act” Now More Than Ever With Recent Court Decision | |
September 30, 2008 | Sierra Club California Hails New Toxics-Fighting Law | |
September 30, 2008 | Back to the Drawing Boards on the Financial Rescue? | |
September 29, 2008 | Asking The Right Questions Before Disaster Strikes: The Reason for AB 2447 Now on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk | |
September 29, 2008 | Cavala: Latest Voter Registration Numbers Provide Good Reason For Democrats to Vote ‘No’ On Prop 11 | |
September 29, 2008 | The Financial Bailout and the Challenge for the States: De-Leveraging Working Families | |
September 29, 2008 | As Data Crimes in California Soar, Law Enforcement Suffers: Governor Should Sign AB 1656 | |
September 29, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Vetoing Hundreds of Bills—At Record Rate—Even Those Passed Unanimously By Both Houses | |
September 29, 2008 | On the Ground for Charlie Brown in California’s Fourth Congressional District | |
September 29, 2008 | Proposition 6: Local Law Enforcement Spending Requirement – NO | |
September 28, 2008 | Cavala: A Constitutional Convention for California? | |
September 28, 2008 | Eight Years From Bush v. Gore to Palin: The Bridge to Nowhere | |
September 28, 2008 | California Proposition 11: Redistricting Commission – YES | |
September 28, 2008 | What Does a Republican Running in an Increasingly Democratic District Do? Why Aghazarian Wants to Make Legislative Races Non-Partisan | |
September 28, 2008 | Prop 1A and High Speed Rail's Role in Fighting Dependence on Oil and Sprawl in California | |
September 28, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill Recommended By Autism Commission | |
September 28, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Can Put a Dent in Auto Repair Fraud and Protect Consumers by Signing AB 2825 | |
September 28, 2008 | California Assembly District 26: Republican Refuses to Debate Eisenhut in Close Race Democrats May Pick Up | |
September 28, 2008 | Bankruptcy Relief and the Bailout | |
September 27, 2008 | A Renewed Call for Mortgage Reform in California | |
September 27, 2008 | Preschool Legislation Aimed at Closing the Achievement Gap in California Becomes Law | |
September 27, 2008 | Debate: Opening Advantage Obama | |
September 26, 2008 | Asking Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign AB 583 -- Fair Elections and the Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics is a Bipartisan Concern | |
September 26, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Signs $5 Billion Bond to Rebuild and Restore Unsafe and Outdated Courthouses in California | |
September 26, 2008 | Field Poll Shows California Prop 4--Parental Notification and Waiting Period for Abortion by Minors--is Leading and That Turnout May Decide Its Fate | |
September 26, 2008 | California’s Budget: Turning Gold Into Lead | |
September 26, 2008 | Nearly a Good Laugh From Opponents of High Speed Rail—in California—and Elsewhere | |
September 26, 2008 | Nowick to Congress: Focus on the FDIC Issue Not Bankruptcy | |
September 25, 2008 | Our Financial Future Being Debated in Washington, D.C. | |
September 25, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Vetoes Critical Mortgage Bill, Fails to Prevent Predatory Practices at Root of Housing Crisis | |
September 25, 2008 | Swim at Your Own Risk in California After Line Item Budget Veto | |
September 25, 2008 | PPIC Releases Massive Survey Showing Obama Up in California, Propositions 4, 8, and 11 Below Majority Support, Economy as the Major Issue, and Voters Soured on Governor and State Legislature and in Favor of Reforming Two-Thirds Rule for Budget Passage | |
September 25, 2008 | Making California Fire-Safe Starts by Not Making the Problem Worse | |
September 25, 2008 | California Needs Governor Schwarzenegger’s Signature on AB 1830 to Prevent Future Mortgage Meltdowns and Help Restore Our Once-Vibrant Economy | |
September 25, 2008 | Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision | |
September 24, 2008 | Commission on Presidential Debates and Obama Say Debate Should Go Forward as Scheduled—Initial Public Reaction Agrees--Only 10% Agree with McCain That Forum Should be Postponed | |
September 24, 2008 | California Already Spends More Than 4 Times More Per Prisoner Than Per Public School Student—Prop 9 Would Make That Worse | |
September 24, 2008 | Half a Billion in “Blue Pencil” Cuts Before Schwarzenegger Signs California Budget: What Do These Say About Our Values—and the Myth of “Fat” in State Government? | |
September 24, 2008 | Taking Toxins to Task, We Ask Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign AB 1879 and SB 509 | |
September 24, 2008 | Governor: California Terminal Patients Have the Right to Know their Treatment Options | |
September 24, 2008 | Paulson’s Proposal Gives $700 Billion to the Wrong People | |
September 24, 2008 | Tenth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Budget Amends That Got the Budget Signed | |
September 24, 2008 | The 'Green Governor' Slashes Funding for Endangered Species: Schwarzenegger Continues His War on Fish and the Environment | |
September 23, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Makes $500 Million in Cuts Including Programs for Seniors, Disabled, CalWORKS, and Adult Protective Services Before Signing California Budget | |
September 23, 2008 | Health Insurance and the Individual Market Makeover: Mend It, End It, or Both? | |
September 23, 2008 | Wolk Campaign Takes On Aghazarian on Per Diem Issue in Senate Race | |
September 23, 2008 | An Open Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger: $4 Billion of California’s Budget Deficit is Due to Foreclosure Crisis—Please Sign AB 1830 to Reform Systemic Failures in Subprime Mortgage Meltdown | |
September 23, 2008 | California Proposition 5: Rehab Instead of Prison for Nonviolent Drug Crimes – YES | |
September 23, 2008 | Schrag: Californians and the System We Have Built Are Responsible for Budget Gridlock | |
September 23, 2008 | Why We Missed the Scandal on Wall Street | |
September 23, 2008 | Bush Withholds Salmon Disaster Money from California and Western States as He Pushes for Corporate Bailouts | |
September 23, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week Twelve--A Battle of Wits Between Two Unarmed Groups In DC? | |
September 23, 2008 | Some Observations on Where We Stand In the Financial Situation | |
September 22, 2008 | Past Reflections on Prop 56: Why the Past is Not Predictive on Reforming the Two-Thirds Vote Requirement to Pass a California Budget | |
September 22, 2008 | Should California Call A Constitutional Convention? | |
September 22, 2008 | To Stop Deadly Hospital Infections in California Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign Two Good Bills on His Desk | |
September 22, 2008 | I Miss the Old, Honorable John McCain | |
September 22, 2008 | Proposition 8: Ban on Gay Marriage – NO | |
September 22, 2008 | The District That Went From Drought To Excess In Just One Summer – California Big Ag Has Water To Store After Earlier Calling For a State of Emergency? | |
September 22, 2008 | Observations and Concerns of a Californian Over the New Federal Home Loan Department | |
September 21, 2008 | Risk--Not the Game--Not a Game | |
September 21, 2008 | John McCain, the Health of Health Care Markets, and a Bit of California History | |
September 21, 2008 | Values Judgments: $85 Billion for AIG--How About for Kids Coverage? | |
September 21, 2008 | Proposition 4: Parental Notification for Minors Getting Abortions (Yet Again) – NO | |
September 21, 2008 | Our Financial Chaos the Result of Greed on Speed: Governor Schwarzenegger Needs to Sign AB 1830 for Mortgage Reform in California | |
September 21, 2008 | Assembly Candidate Running to Replace Termed Out John Laird Will Work to Reform California’s Flawed Budget Process | |
September 20, 2008 | New Voter Registration Figures Show California Democrats Have Added Significantly to Advantage Over Republicans Since 2004 Election | |
September 20, 2008 | Assembly Budget Chair John Laird on the California Budget Agreement and the Process | |
September 20, 2008 | California State Budget Act Updated Final Compromise Floor Report | |
September 20, 2008 | Payments Held Up by California Budget Stalemate to Be Expedited by State Controller Chiang | |
September 20, 2008 | California Proposition 3: Children's Hospital Bonds ($1 billion) – NO | |
September 20, 2008 | With California Budget Passed, Next Year's Health Fight Begins Now | |
September 19, 2008 | California Legislature Passes Final Bills Needed to Secure Governor’s Signature on State Budget | |
September 19, 2008 | This State Budget is a Massive Corporate Boondoggle That Kicks California's Fiscal Future into a Ditch On The Side Of the Road | |
September 19, 2008 | November 2008: A Historic Opportunity for Environmental Gains in California | |
September 19, 2008 | Fairness for UC Workers: A Ballot Initiative | |
September 19, 2008 | Ninth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget:The Late-Night, September 15th, Threatened-to-be-Vetoed Budget | |
September 19, 2008 | Proposition 2: Elbow (Wing, Trotter) Room for Farm Animals – YES | |
September 19, 2008 | Happy Days Are Here Again – The Resurgence of FDR | |
September 19, 2008 | Chill, Baby, Chill - A California Perspective On The Oil Extraction Debate | |
September 18, 2008 | Latest Details of California Budget Agreement Between Legislative Leaders and Governor Schwarzenegger | |
September 18, 2008 | Hold the Presses: Schwarzenegger and Legislative Leaders Agree to Resolution of California Budget Staring Contest | |
September 18, 2008 | For An On-Time and Socially Responsible Budget, California Should Join 47 Other States and Get Rid of the Two-Thirds Vote Requirement to Pass One | |
September 18, 2008 | Enough Is Enough: California Budget Delay Must End Now | |
September 18, 2008 | An Open Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger to Save Lives, Property, and Taxpayer Dollars from California’s Fires | |
September 18, 2008 | The New Hoovers | |
September 18, 2008 | On Ballot Proposition That Has Attracted National Attention, California Voters Are Aware of and Increasingly Opposed to Prop 8--Same Sex Marriage Ban—Field Poll Reports | |
September 18, 2008 | Score One for Californians Opposing Prop 4 | |
September 18, 2008 | Republican Abuse of Supermajority for California Budget Cries Out for Reform | |
September 18, 2008 | California's Greenbelt Alliance Standing Up for Smart Growth for 50 Years and Looking Ahead | |
September 18, 2008 | Propositions 7 and 10 Offer Californians No Real Alternatives: Sierra Club California Opposes Both | |
September 17, 2008 | California Budget Crisis - Day 79: Governor Speaks In Fresno On Budget--Says Budget Bill Is "Unacceptable," Meets with Legislative Leaders | |
September 17, 2008 | “Legislature Passes, Governor Announces He Will Veto, 2008-09 Spending Plan” from the California Budget Project is our Site of the Day | |
September 17, 2008 | California Budget Crisis - Day 79: With First Ever Veto of Budget This Week and Legislative Override Schwarzenegger Would Lose Line Item Veto Power | |
September 17, 2008 | Obama Ahead by 16 Points in California—Even During End of McCain Post Convention Bounce—Palin Firms the Base But Biden Does Better With The Few Undecided Voters in State | |
September 17, 2008 | California Budget Passes Legislature--Gov Vows Veto--Override Likely: What Does It Mean for Health Care? | |
September 17, 2008 | A Cry for Reform So We Can Have a California Budget Based on Principles | |
September 17, 2008 | After Schwarzenegger Vetoes Budget What Do Democrats Have to Lose by Backing His Recall? | |
September 17, 2008 | Is the Bare Minimum for Education in California the Best We Can Hope for in the State Budget? | |
September 17, 2008 | The Schwarzenegger Budget Veto in the Context of a Dysfunctional System | |
September 17, 2008 | This Year: An Election for the Ages | |
September 17, 2008 | When Will “Free Market” Republicans Finally Say “Enough is Enough”? At This Rate Never | |
September 16, 2008 | Transcript of Schwarzenegger’s Press Announcement That He Will Veto State Budget—And Many Bills Sent to Him | |
September 16, 2008 | BREAKING NEWS: Governor Schwarzenegger Will Veto Budget Bill | |
September 16, 2008 | California Assembly Speaker Bass Responds to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Impending Veto of State Budget | |
September 16, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger’s live webcast of his 3 p.m. press conference on the California State Budget is our site of the day | |
September 16, 2008 | Democratic Statements on the California Budget Focus on Changing Budget Process—At Least One Commentator is Predicting a Gubernatorial Veto in Statewide TV Address Tonight | |
September 16, 2008 | Complete Picture of California State Budget Passed by the Legislature is Still Coming into Focus | |
September 16, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Job Rating Down in Field Poll Just Released—Most California Voters Disapprove—But by Two-to-One Margin They Would Oppose Recalling Him from Office | |
September 16, 2008 | Perata’s Candid Comments on the California Budget | |
September 16, 2008 | California Budget Passes Assembly and Goes to Governor | |
September 16, 2008 | With the Stroke of a Pen and Signing AB 1894, Governor Schwarzenegger Can Turn California Into a National Leader--Making Routine HIV Testing a Standard Medical Practice | |
September 16, 2008 | Schrag: New UC President Mark Yudof Has Best Chance in Decades to Bring About Needed Change | |
September 16, 2008 | BREAKING NEWS: California State Senate Passes Budget 29-11--Heads To Assembly Still In Session | |
September 15, 2008 | Plan to Exempt Power Plant from Environmental Review is Part of Budget Bills—Last Minute Amendment is a Real Stinker and Will Be Shoved into SB 1083 Without the Light of Day | |
September 15, 2008 | Eighth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Republican Budget-September | |
September 15, 2008 | No Celebration for Health Care in California Budget Deal | |
September 15, 2008 | Lehman Brothers is a Distinct Situation from Merrill-Lynch But Keep Your Eye on AIG | |
September 15, 2008 | New Ad Campaign Challenges Candidates, Media to "Give Us a Debate Worthy Of a Great Nation in Trouble" | |
September 15, 2008 | Focus to Shift to Over 900 Bills Passed In August By Legislature That Will Be Sent To Governor Schwarzenegger For Final Action Once Budget Is Passed | |
September 15, 2008 | Enhanced Geothermal: Drill Here, Drill Now? | |
September 15, 2008 | A Zer0-Emissions Approach for California That's Time-Tested and Whose Action Speaks Louder Than Words | |
September 14, 2008 | California Legislative Leaders Reach Budget Deal--Vote Could Come as Early as Monday | |
September 14, 2008 | This One Takes the Cake on the California Budget—But There is a Serious Story Behind the Cuts | |
September 14, 2008 | Palin an Advance For Women? Count Me Out | |
September 14, 2008 | Recent Court Decisions Turn California Law Protecting Free Speech Into a Tool for Government Suppression of Public’s Speech and Access Rights—Action Needed by Supreme Court or Legislature | |
September 14, 2008 | Why Train Collisions Occur Despite Ongoing Efforts to Stop Errant Trains in Their Tracks Before Disaster Strikes | |
September 14, 2008 | Be Fair to Those Who Care: The Plight of In Home Supportive Services in San Diego | |
September 13, 2008 | Possible California Budget Deal in State Senate--Vote on Budget Could Happen Next Week | |
September 13, 2008 | Republican Exploitation of California’s Rare Two-Thirds Budget Vote Requirement | |
September 13, 2008 | Seventh in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The First Budget Put Up For a Vote in August--The Governor's August Budget with Changes Proposed by the Democratic Majority | |
September 13, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Should Ignore Sarah Palin’s Advice on California Port Pollution and Sign SB 974 | |
September 13, 2008 | Cavala: Republican Party Begins Campaign to Suppress the Vote--“Lose Your House, Lose Your Vote” | |
September 12, 2008 | Cavala: The Political Fallout of California’s Budget Deadlock | |
September 12, 2008 | Patients With Retroactively Cancelled Health Coverage When They Became Ill Urge Schwarzenegger to Keep His ‘State of the State’ Promise and to Sign AB 1945 | |
September 12, 2008 | Field Poll: California Voters Prefer Democratic and Schwarzenegger Budget Plans to Republican Plan—Give State Legislature Its Lowest Rating Ever—15% | |
September 12, 2008 | Sixth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Governor's August Budget Revision | |
September 12, 2008 | Faces of the California Budget | |
September 12, 2008 | Senator Jack Scott on the Republican California Budget: “I Get Phone Calls Saying Please Don’t Destroy Our Schools” | |
September 12, 2008 | The Green Dividend of High Speed Rail for California | |
September 12, 2008 | Cavala: Scandal Strikes San Diego Government…Again?! | |
September 11, 2008 | Cavala: Maybe the Solution to the Budget Deadlock Is to Take It Away From the Legislature and Give It to a “Commission”? | |
September 11, 2008 | An Open Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger Urging a Signature on Bill to Provide Health Care to All Californians—SB 840 | |
September 11, 2008 | Cavala: Supporting the Governor’s Redistricting Scheme So That Reformers Will Be ‘Free’ to Repeal Prop 13 (?) | |
September 11, 2008 | My Take on T. Boone's California Prop 10 | |
September 11, 2008 | Burning America's Bridges | |
September 11, 2008 | Fifth in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The July Conference Committee Budget—“The Democratic Budget” | |
September 11, 2008 | Laird Releases Report on Governor’s ‘August Revise’ California Budget | |
September 11, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Cannot Wait Another Year to Prevent the Injustices of Wrongful Convictions in California: Sign SB 1589 and AB 2937 | |
September 11, 2008 | New Poll – Orange County Voters Remain Strongly Opposed to Toll Road through State Park | |
September 11, 2008 | Schrag: Pass Proposition 11--Remove the Distraction of Redistricting—So We Can Move On to Reforms That Matter | |
September 10, 2008 | Green Investment Will Yield Two Million Jobs in Two Years--California Stands to Gain $13 Billion by Investing in Global-Warming Solutions | |
September 10, 2008 | Who Killed Recycling in California This Year? | |
September 10, 2008 | You Can Measure a State’s Character by the Budget Choices it Makes | |
September 10, 2008 | Cavala: Latest Public Policy Institute Analysis Shows No Relationship Between “Competitive Seats” and “Moderation” in the California Legislature | |
September 10, 2008 | ‘All-In’ Strategy for Dems Could Be Ticket to California Budget Reform | |
September 10, 2008 | Clean Energy Leader Opposes California Prop 10 | |
September 10, 2008 | We Need a Real Stimulation Package in California and the Nation | |
September 9, 2008 | Assembly Republicans Vote to Make Severe Health Cuts, Force Future Cuts to California's Health System | |
September 9, 2008 | The Der Spiegel Interview of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is our Site of the Day | |
September 9, 2008 | The Subprime Crisis Hits Home Hard in California—Package of Bills Heading to the Governor | |
September 9, 2008 | CALIFORNIA BUDGET CRISIS - DAY 71: Assembly Rejects Senate Republican Budget Bill 27 to 45 | |
September 9, 2008 | A Senator Expresses Disappointment in Inability to Pass a California Budget With Balanced Solutions | |
September 9, 2008 | Questions We Should Ask About a Schwarzenegger Recall | |
September 9, 2008 | Maybe It’s Time to Support a Schwarzenegger Recall | |
September 9, 2008 | MediaNews Deserves Credit for Adding Community Members to Their Editorial Boards | |
September 8, 2008 | California Republican Senate Budget Plan Fails to Secure All Republican Votes--Attracts No Democratic Takers--and is Soundly Defeated After Floor Debate | |
September 8, 2008 | “More with Less: California Agriculture Can Thrive While Conserving Water-- A Special Focus on the Delta” is our site of the day | |
September 8, 2008 | From the Shadows Again: Sacramento Law Firm with Ties to Swift Boaters and Electoral College Scheme Helps Form Anti-Obama Stealth Committee | |
September 8, 2008 | California Budget Crisis: Day 69: Republican Senate Budget Proposal Expected to be Ready and Voted on Today—Majority Vote Budget Reform Gaining Support for Next Year’s Ballot | |
September 8, 2008 | McCain and Bush View State Issues Similarly | |
September 8, 2008 | Recalled Hazardous Products, Including Children’s Toys, For Sale in California—Bill On Governor’s Desk Would Keep Them Off Shelves and From Being Resold | |
September 7, 2008 | Cavala: Perfect ‘Storm’ Looms for the G.O.P. in California | |
September 7, 2008 | McCain Campaign Plays Spin the Voters (And the Press, Too) | |
September 7, 2008 | Same Old Litmus Tests from the Republican Ticket: Doesn’t Sound Like Change to Me | |
September 7, 2008 | Parity for Mental Health Treatment in California: AB 1887 Needs Governor’s Signature | |
September 7, 2008 | California Healthcare, the Budget Crisis, and Another Chance to Get It Right | |
September 7, 2008 | Californians Don’t Need a Daily Serving of Toxic Perfluorinated Chemicals: Governor Should Sign SB 1313 | |
September 6, 2008 | Cavala: Musings on the California State Budget Deadlock | |
September 6, 2008 | Republican [Shhhh] Convention | |
September 6, 2008 | Assembly Budget Leadership Joins Governor Schwarzenegger in Pointing Out Irresponsibility of Republican Budget Proposal | |
September 6, 2008 | Barack Obama Mama goes to DNC in Denver | |
September 6, 2008 | California Will Comply With Medi-Cal Court Order - Will Restore Medi-Cal Provider Rates This Month | |
September 6, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Uses Manufactured Drought to Push Water Bond | |
September 5, 2008 | End of Session Summary: Environment Sees Progress But "Budget or Veto" Threat Causes Uncertainty About Bills' Future | |
September 5, 2008 | Cavala: Asian-Pacific Civil Rights Organizations Join Growing Opposition to Prop 11, the Governor’s Redistricting Scheme | |
September 5, 2008 | McCain Doesn’t Have the Right Background to Run for President | |
September 5, 2008 | In Their Own Words: Thousands of Life Stories From California’s Aged, Blind, and Disabled on How They Would Be Devastated by Budget Cuts | |
September 5, 2008 | Why the Republican Spending Cap for California Won’t Work | |
September 5, 2008 | Update on the California Worker Salary Slash - Chiang Outflanks Arnold Again | |
September 5, 2008 | Stopping the School to Jail Pipeline in California | |
September 5, 2008 | Prop 2 Opponents Charged with Laundering Money and Concealing Out-Of-State Contributions | |
September 5, 2008 | Why We Are Willing to Pay Our Share of Taxes to Share in the California Budget Solution | |
September 5, 2008 | McCain Trying To Make Nice | |
September 4, 2008 | Annie Oakley for (Vice) President | |
September 4, 2008 | Without Transit Funding, California’s Smart Growth Efforts Not Enough | |
September 4, 2008 | They’d Attack Mother Teresa for Not Having a Real Job to Get Elected—And They Don’t Put Their Country or the Truth First | |
September 4, 2008 | A Day Where Republican Actions Didn’t Quite Mesh With Their Words: Real Life Testimony on California Republican Budget Cuts and Families With Special Needs Don’t Match Sarah Palin’s Rhetoric on the Convention Floor | |
September 4, 2008 | California Health Bills Heading to Governor's Desk Need Your Help | |
September 4, 2008 | The Inside Track On Rail Consolidation/Double Tracking: What This Means for Rail-Borne Traffic Moving in California and Beyond | |
September 4, 2008 | Republicans Are Mean | |
September 3, 2008 | Steinberg is Right: The California Budget Process Does Need Reform | |
September 3, 2008 | Palin Reinforces McCain's Fundamentalist Free Market Healthcare Philosophy | |
September 3, 2008 | The Republican National Convention: A Connection of Disconnects | |
September 2, 2008 | California Budget Crisis Heats Up: Big 5 Meeting Scheduled for Tomorrow Afternoon—Senate and Assembly Meetings as Well | |
September 2, 2008 | Steinberg Vows to Take California Budget Process to the Voters--Says He “Won’t Go Through This Again”--Asks Republican Senators to Guarantee Services They Say They Want to Protect Won’t Be Cut in Proposal Expected at the End of Week | |
September 2, 2008 | Schrag: California Ballot Propositions May Start National Trend on Prisons and Rehabilitation of Drug Offenders and Same Sex Marriage | |
September 2, 2008 | Sheila Kuehl on Senate Floor Mocks Republicans for Faux Concerns for the Poor and Sick in Debate on California Budget | |
September 2, 2008 | Jack Scott, a Mild Mannered and Thoughtful Democratic Senator, Criticizes Republicans for Obstruction on the California Budget | |
September 2, 2008 | “Labor Day 2008: Little to Celebrate” from the California Budget Project is Our Site of the Day | |
September 2, 2008 | Equal Pay for Women Bill About to Land on Schwarzenegger’s Desk | |
September 2, 2008 | Obama Had the Right Response on the Palin Family’s Private Matters | |
September 2, 2008 | In Denver, Democrats Became a Party | |
September 2, 2008 | How California State Boards Fail Victims of Sexual Misconduct | |
September 1, 2008 | Cavala: Where’s The Beef? Bee Expose of Non-Existent Prison Guard ‘End Run’ Leaves Them With Egg on Their ‘Face’ | |
September 1, 2008 | Last Day of California Legislature Session Ends With Passage of Major Bills—But No Budget as Republicans Reject Appeals From Governor of Their Own Party and Democrats | |
September 1, 2008 | Cavala: Tax Increase or Borrow More and Rip the Poor? Why Not Let the People of California Decide? | |
September 1, 2008 | Labor Day Thoughts in California: Unions Brought Us the Weekend, Shared Prosperity and a Broad Middle Class. | |
September 1, 2008 | A High Speed Labor Day in California? | |
September 1, 2008 | California Legislature Passes Historic Health Insurance Cancellation Bill | |
September 1, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week Nine – Some Legal Updates | |
August 31, 2008 | Perata Calls Republican’s Bluff on State Budget: Tells Them to Prepare Their Budget for Floor Debate and Vote | |
August 31, 2008 | Biggest Land Use Bill in California in 32 Years Goes to the Governor—SB 375 Would Curb Sprawl and Reduce Global Warming Pollution | |
August 31, 2008 | Last Day of California Legislature to Consider Non Budget Bills Has Many Big Issues Hanging in the Balance | |
August 31, 2008 | Wrapping up the Week of the DNC Convention: What in the Heck Was McCain Thinking? | |
August 31, 2008 | Partnerships are Key to Thriving Communities | |
August 30, 2008 | Cue Lloyd Bentsen: “Sarah Palin, You’re No Hillary Clinton” | |
August 30, 2008 | Without More Assembly Democrats Voting for Health Reform Bill SB 1522, It Will Die in the Last Days of the Legislative Session | |
August 30, 2008 | Cavala: McCain Has Got To Be Kidding | |
August 30, 2008 | Senator Perata on the Compromise California Budget Rejected by Senate Republicans | |
August 30, 2008 | As California Legislature Winds Down--Some Progress, Some Stumbling On Bills to Regulate Toxics--Bad Water Bonds and Good Water Legislation | |
August 30, 2008 | Assemblymembers Laird and Caballero Call on Republicans to Put an End to the California Budget Stalemate | |
August 30, 2008 | A Young California Delegate’s Thoughts on Leaving Denver and the Democratic National Convention | |
August 30, 2008 | Cavala: Shameful Deception By Common Cause – Barack Obama Does Not Support Prop 11--The California Democratic Party Opposes Prop 11 | |
August 30, 2008 | Bill Exempting Students With Disabilities From the High School Exit Exam Until 2011 Passes California Legislature | |
August 29, 2008 | BREAKING NEWS: Senate Fails To Pass Compromise California Budget With All 15 Republicans Voting No | |
August 29, 2008 | Proposition 11’s Redistricting Reform and the Kind of Refreshing Change Obama Called on Americans to Demand | |
August 29, 2008 | Voting Rights For All: Putting It to Work in California | |
August 29, 2008 | Still Hearing Obama’s Speech--And Surprise -- It’s McCain/Palin | |
August 29, 2008 | California Senate Slated to Vote This Morning on Version of Governor's August Budget Proposal | |
August 29, 2008 | The Mile-High Milestone | |
August 29, 2008 | A Modest Proposal for the LPGA | |
August 29, 2008 | What Would an Obama Win Mean for States? | |
August 29, 2008 | Californians: You Did It! Privacy and 'Pay As You Drive' | |
August 29, 2008 | Randy’s War: It Appears That the Nowick Addendum to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Is Working | |
August 28, 2008 | Breaking News: California Senate to Vote on Compromise Budget Tomorrow Morning at 10 A.M | |
August 28, 2008 | Laird Answers the Question: ‘Why Can’t We Get a State Budget?’ | |
August 28, 2008 | Cavala: Look For the Crucial Information in Paragraph 10 of Any “Bee” Story - - (Or You May Be Misled) | |
August 28, 2008 | About the Sacramento Bee’s Coverage of the Prison Guard Union’s Contribution Against Prop 11: A Correction and Some Comments | |
August 28, 2008 | It’s Raining Whoppers From California Senate Republican Candidate Tony Strickland | |
August 28, 2008 | No on Prop 10 – Stop T. Boone’s Pickpocket Initiative | |
August 28, 2008 | How the Media Blames Democrats for Republican Failures in California | |
August 28, 2008 | New PPIC Poll: Californians Want State Budget Gap Closed by Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Increases | |
August 28, 2008 | Scheme to Irradiate Veggies May Have Problems--An Admission by Food Industrial Complex of Failure to Act on Root Causes of E. Coli and Salmonella Outbreaks | |
August 28, 2008 | Is This the Day America Started Growing Up? | |
August 28, 2008 | Latest California Water Bond Idea Is All Wet | |
August 28, 2008 | California Poll Shows Majority Oppose Prop 8 to Eliminate Same Sex Marriage Rights and Props 4 on Parental Notification and 11 on Redistricting Are Under 50% Support | |
August 28, 2008 | Cavala: PPIC Survey Shows Prop 11- The Schwarzenegger Redistricting Scheme - With 31% of the Democratic Vote | |
August 27, 2008 | A Californian on the Convention Floor: Savoring This Incredible Moment | |
August 27, 2008 | Republican Leader Rejects Concept of California Budget Compromise | |
August 27, 2008 | They're Not Covering the Same Convention | |
August 27, 2008 | Recycling Bill Bottled Up in Closing Hours of California Legislative Session | |
August 27, 2008 | Cavala: Editorial Opinion Masquerading as ‘News’ in the ‘Bee’ | |
August 27, 2008 | Stand-Off On California Budget Continues--No Agreement Close—Floor Sessions Today | |
August 27, 2008 | A Young California Delegate Reports from the Floor of the Democratic Convention: Hillary Clinton Tamed PUMA’s and Won Wavering Democrats for Obama | |
August 27, 2008 | The California Budget Gets a Tardy and an Incomplete Grade: The Governor and Legislative Republicans Undercut Education | |
August 27, 2008 | Hope for High Risk Uninsured in California | |
August 26, 2008 | Hillary Clinton Tonight: She Wore Gold and She Was Golden | |
August 26, 2008 | Pow! Hillary Clinton: “No way. No how. No McCain. Barack Obama is my candidate. And He Must Be Our President.” | |
August 26, 2008 | A Bad Time for Budget Cuts to California’s Aged, Disabled, Poor, and Uninsured | |
August 26, 2008 | Biggest Land Use Bill in California in 32 Years is One Step From the Governor’s Desk | |
August 26, 2008 | California Budget Crisis - Day 56: Federal Judge Orders State to Explain Delay in Implementing Order to Restore Medi-Cal Rates | |
August 26, 2008 | Conventions Still Matter | |
August 26, 2008 | Tears and Bookends: For Democrats, Kennedys Are the Heart, and Obamas Are the Soul | |
August 26, 2008 | McCain Visit to Sacramento Underscores Republican Disarray in State and Nation | |
August 26, 2008 | Schrag: A Nation in Denial | |
August 26, 2008 | Why Readers Reject Newspapers | |
August 25, 2008 | Cavala: A.A.R.P. Backs Schwarzenegger Redistricting Scheme Opposed by California’s Democrats (Now Why Would They Do That?) | |
August 25, 2008 | Words Matter in a Movie Like Tropic Thunder- But Words and Action Also Matter in Sacramento | |
August 25, 2008 | A Young California Delegate Reports How the Press Covers the Democratic National Convention and His Experiences | |
August 25, 2008 | Prop 11 Redistricting Needed—Unless You Think Sacramento is Working | |
August 25, 2008 | Californians Facing Tough Choices: Learning to Better Weather the Fuel Shortage Storm | |
August 24, 2008 | Biden Offers a Moment - Progressives Must Seize It and the Inside-Outside Strategy on Health Care | |
August 24, 2008 | A Record and Expectations: Another Californian Weighs in on Biden | |
August 24, 2008 | Turning the Ship for the Democrats—Obama-Biden and Down Ticket Races: From a Headquarters That Was a Nail Salon | |
August 24, 2008 | So, How Expensive Is US Gasoline Anyway? | |
August 24, 2008 | Rotten Eggs Being Thrown Against California Prop 2 | |
August 24, 2008 | Leubitz: Why I'm Running for Vice-Chair of the California Democratic Party | |
August 24, 2008 | A Progressive Way to Reform and Reduce Corporate Tax Rates and to Empower Shareholders | |
August 23, 2008 | Joe Biden’s Complete Speech at the Announcement of His Selection as Obama's Running Mate | |
August 23, 2008 | Remarks of Senator Barack Obama Introducing Joe Biden as His Running Mate | |
August 23, 2008 | Biden, You Complete Me | |
August 23, 2008 | Who's Joe Biden? | |
August 23, 2008 | What is the All Cuts Budget California Republican Legislators Are Proposing? | |
August 23, 2008 | California State Senate Passes Fish Rescue Plans Bill – With Mitigation Provisions Stripped | |
August 22, 2008 | Cavala: California Budget Deadlock May Be Resolved by Voters Throwing Out Republicans | |
August 22, 2008 | No California Budget Deal Appears Close—Both Houses to Meet on Monday | |
August 22, 2008 | While Steinberg Was Elected New California Senate Leader, Insurance Lobbyists Were Busy Trying to Kill His Health Bill in the Assembly | |
August 22, 2008 | John Chiang, California’s Controller, Treated as a Rock Star in Oakland Before He Leaves to Speak at Democratic National Convention | |
August 22, 2008 | Cavala: “Pro Tem Steinberg” Reflects Well On The Senate | |
August 22, 2008 | Schwarzenegger-Chiang Case on Pay Order Should Be Moved to Federal Court to Protect California from Liability for What Could Be Billions in Fines | |
August 22, 2008 | SB 375 On Global Warming and Land Use is the Bill to Watch in the California Legislature | |
August 21, 2008 | California State Senate Formally Elects Darrell Steinberg as New President Pro Tem- Will Take Over November 30th | |
August 21, 2008 | Governor’s Executive Order Hurts California Working Families and Public Safety | |
August 21, 2008 | Cavala: Parra Power-Play Falls Short | |
August 21, 2008 | Call Schwarzenegger’s Bluff - Let Deadline for Ballot Measures Pass | |
August 21, 2008 | Redefining the California Dream: Darrell Steinberg's Smart Growth Plan | |
August 21, 2008 | California Fails to Pass Chemical Ban in Baby Products | |
August 21, 2008 | Why Immigration Matters to Hispanic Voters | |
August 21, 2008 | The Latest on the Heller Gun Decision--Week Eight | |
August 20, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Officially Makes Public His Compromise Proposal on California Budget—Some Call It the “August Revise” | |
August 20, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Proposes “New” California Budget Compromise | |
August 20, 2008 | Publicly-Funded Nursing Home Profits Protected in California Budget While Vital Services Cut for Seniors and People With Disabilities | |
August 20, 2008 | Cavala: Democratic Part ‘Stupid’ For Not Following Republican Advice on Prop 11, the Governor’s Redistricting Scheme? | |
August 20, 2008 | Caution Light on Schwarzenegger Attempt to Balance Budget on Back of Californians Who Need Medical Care--Federal District Court Judge Orders Halt to Medi-Cal Provider Cut | |
August 20, 2008 | Republicans Need to Tell Californians What They Want in the Budget, Not What They Hate | |
August 20, 2008 | Where's the California Budget? Who Is Obstructing? | |
August 20, 2008 | California Health Legislation Up For Final Votes | |
August 20, 2008 | Governor Schwarzenegger Will Have Opportunity to Protect Tenants in Foreclosed Properties | |
August 20, 2008 | The “Real” Stupid Party In California | |
August 20, 2008 | Driving Dying Californians to the Back Alley | |
August 19, 2008 | California Democratic Leaders Doing Right Thing for Voters as AB 583 Moves to Senate Floor | |
August 19, 2008 | “California's Harvest of Shame” is Our Site of the Day | |
August 19, 2008 | Cavala: ‘Deadlines’ for the California Budget Could Go Into Next Month--and Beyond | |
August 19, 2008 | Cavala: Latest Bogus Effort to Defend Schwarzenegger Redistricting Scheme | |
August 19, 2008 | Schrag: Jack O’Connell Shows His California Sense of Humor on Algebra | |
August 19, 2008 | California Budget Crisis - Day 50 | |
August 19, 2008 | California Democratic Legislators Must Hold Strong on Budget | |
August 19, 2008 | California Redistricting Reform: Arguments Against Prop 11 Don’t Hold Water to This Progressive Democrat | |
August 19, 2008 | From Heidegger to the Environment: Californians Are in the World | |
August 18, 2008 | California Senate to Take Up Secret Ballot Bill for Farmworkers Today | |
August 18, 2008 | John Laird Closes Assembly Debate on California Budget With a Laser Focus on the Policies and Politics Involved | |
August 18, 2008 | The California Budget Debate: Swanson Delivers Impassioned Plea for Accountability and Truth Telling on Assembly Floor—Chides Republicans for Partisanship | |
August 18, 2008 | Cavala: Anti-Democratic Republicans Run Roughshod Over the Principle of ‘Majority’ Rule | |
August 18, 2008 | Tired of Trying to Read Between the Lines: Still No Answer to What Republicans Want in the Line Items of the California Budget | |
August 17, 2008 | Assembly Debate Foreshadows Majority Vote for California Budget But No Republican Votes Needed to Pass It by the Required Two-Thirds Majority | |
August 17, 2008 | Breaking: California Assembly Now Meeting in Rare Session: Compromise Balanced Budget Bill Details Emerging | |
August 17, 2008 | Capping California’s Prospects | |
August 17, 2008 | Uniting a Divided Nation: Experiences in California | |
August 17, 2008 | California Becomes First State to Condemn Use of Torture in ‘War on Terror’ | |
August 17, 2008 | Progressive Values Stories: Gavin Newsom on Inclusivity and Noah’s Ark | |
August 17, 2008 | OBAMANOS! A Man With the Courage of Robert Kennedy | |
August 16, 2008 | How a Republican Spending Cap Would Harm an Increasingly Difficult California Budget | |
August 16, 2008 | As California Wildfires Rage--Don't Get Mad, Get Preventative—Pass SB 1500 and 1637! | |
August 16, 2008 | High Gas Prices Fuel California Quality of Life Improvement. Come Again? | |
August 16, 2008 | The Russia-Georgia Conflict: Imposing Harry Truman-Teddy Roosevelt ADULT Behavior | |
August 15, 2008 | New Studies: Proposed Health Cuts Would Significantly Harm California's Economic Health | |
August 15, 2008 | Convergence of End of Session and California Budget Fight Create Opportunity for Hanky Panky | |
August 15, 2008 | Hey California: Clean Energy—“That’s Hot” | |
August 15, 2008 | Obama Campaign Torpedoing the Swift Boats as They Keep Coming | |
August 15, 2008 | Cyber bullies Are Going Down in California! AB 86 One Step from Going to the Governor | |
August 15, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 7 - Working Out a Bit Different Than Many Thought | |
August 14, 2008 | Hearing Tomorrow on California Republican “Budget Reform” Measure—Vote Planned Sunday on State Budget With All the Trimmings—But No One is Really Sure | |
August 14, 2008 | Assembly Expected to Hold Hearing on Republican Budget Cap Constitutional Amendment Tomorrow Afternoon—Does This Mean Something is in the Works? | |
August 14, 2008 | Cavala: Egad! I’ve Been (Verbally) Assaulted By the League of Women Voters | |
August 14, 2008 | $3 Billion for California Prison Health Care in This Terrible Year of Budget Deficits Can Be Avoided if Our State Government Acts | |
August 14, 2008 | Democrats Need Not Fear Prop 11 on Redistricting—In Fact, Many Are Supporting It | |
August 14, 2008 | Target Book Lists Valley Districts in Top Seven California Assembly Races: Democrats Could Gain 6 Seats | |
August 14, 2008 | Californians Should Be Able to Talk to a Live Person When Calling State Agencies | |
August 14, 2008 | When Wishes are Fishes: How Californians Can Get Doctors to Honor Our Wishes at the End of Life | |
August 14, 2008 | Doublespeak on the Russia-Georgia Conflict: Randy’s War Part Deux | |
August 13, 2008 | Perata Says Budget Deal Reached With Governor | |
August 13, 2008 | California Budget Madness From Earlier in the Day | |
August 13, 2008 | Community Groups Protest Schwarzenegger-Feinstein Water Bond Scheme | |
August 13, 2008 | Deal Time in Sacramento? | |
August 13, 2008 | Protecting UC Workers from Whistleblower Retaliation | |
August 13, 2008 | Perata Wins Sierra Club Award | |
August 13, 2008 | Californians Are Not Voting for Exxon’s John McCain | |
August 13, 2008 | California Labor Unions Support Global Warming Solutions: Green Jobs Seen as Future | |
August 13, 2008 | Signs Show Republicans Making U-Turns in Amador County | |
August 13, 2008 | Randy’s War??? And Obama Got it Right | |
August 12, 2008 | "Our Budget, Our Values" is Our Site of the Day | |
August 12, 2008 | Rumors of a California Budget Deal in the Works | |
August 12, 2008 | California Paid Sick Days Bill Killed This Year But Will Be Back Again Next Year | |
August 12, 2008 | The Difficulties of Dealing With Cornered Wounded Party Animals on the California Budget | |
August 12, 2008 | Chiang: Schwarzenegger Wrong About Lawsuit and Doesn’t Understand Consequences | |
August 12, 2008 | Desperately Seeking Black Clouds Over Obama | |
August 12, 2008 | Proposition 11: Fake Redistricting Reform Brought to you by Governor Schwarzenegger and his Wrong-Wing Republican Gang | |
August 12, 2008 | Schrag: What is Causing the Decline of Illegal Immigration? | |
August 11, 2008 | Concerned About California Newspaper Consolidation? | |
August 11, 2008 | More Flies in the Ointment of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order Cutting California State Workers Pay to the Federal Minimum Wage | |
August 11, 2008 | Senate Leaders to Governor Schwarzenegger: Executive Order Jeopardizes Prison Safety in California | |
August 11, 2008 | Cavala: G.O.P. Game of ‘Chicken’ With California’s Budget Could Leave a Lot of Republican Feathers on the Road | |
August 11, 2008 | “Planning for California’s Future: The State’s Population is Growing, Aging, and Becoming More Diverse” by the California Budget Project is Our Site of the Day | |
August 11, 2008 | California Faculty Association Launches "Flunk The Assembly Republicans" Advertising Campaign | |
August 11, 2008 | State Senate Decision Could Begin the Restoration of Delta Salmon and Other Fisheries Important to California: AB 1806 (Wolk) | |
August 11, 2008 | Clean Money Pilot Program Moves to California Senate Floor with Lobbyists as the Only Serious Organizational Opposition | |
August 11, 2008 | The California Environment in Suspense Last Week: A Short List of Bills That Made It and Those That Didn’t | |
August 11, 2008 | Taxes Wisely Spent Create Savings for Californians | |
August 11, 2008 | This is Why Lobbyists Should Not Be Allowed into Presidential Campaigns | |
August 10, 2008 | The California Term Limit Dance: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back For Women Legislators | |
August 10, 2008 | Ten Common Mistakes Novice Candidates Make: Myths and Facts to Help the First Time Candidate Get off to a Sound Start | |
August 10, 2008 | GPS Bill Would Help California Motorists Find Their Way—and Help Them Avoid Hefty Tickets | |
August 9, 2008 | Cavala: Edwards Hypocrisy Rends the Fabric of Politics | |
August 9, 2008 | Democratic Assemblymembers Highlight the Governor’s Harmful Budget Tactics--Call for Him and Legislative Republicans to Negotiate California Budget in Good Faith | |
August 9, 2008 | Cavala: Stupid Republican Immigration Policy Demonstrates Need for a Democrat in the White House | |
August 8, 2008 | Judge Upholds Attorney General Jerry Brown’s Title and Summary of Proposition 8: Yes It Would Take Away the Right of Same Sex Couples to Marry in California | |
August 8, 2008 | Bills Live and Die in Suspense: Update on Appropriations Votes on Health Bills in the California Legislature | |
August 8, 2008 | SB 840--Single Payer Health Bill—Goes to California Assembly Floor for Vote—One of the Lucky Ones to Pass Out of Appropriations Committees | |
August 8, 2008 | California High Speed Rail Amendments on a Fast Track Now: AB 3034 Passes the Senate | |
August 8, 2008 | Governator Says "Hasta La Vista, College Jobs" | |
August 8, 2008 | The California Budget Stalemate and Children | |
August 8, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week 6--Career Ending Decisions Being Made? | |
August 7, 2008 | Assemblymember John Laird on the Budget: “The Voters of California Have Been Taken Hostage but We Can’t Get a Ransom Note” | |
August 7, 2008 | Assemblymember Evans on the California Republican Budget Strategy and Their Grover Norquist Inspired Constitutional Amendment | |
August 7, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Acting the Tough Guy to Cover for His Weakness? Both Houses of California Legislature Meeting This Morning—But Don’t Hold Your Breath | |
August 7, 2008 | The California State Budget and the Coming Sharecropper Society | |
August 7, 2008 | California Legislature Completes Last Policy Committee Hearings on Bills For 2008—Hundreds of Bills Likely to be Killed in Appropriation Committees Today | |
August 7, 2008 | New SEIU Lawsuit Raises Further Questions About Governor Schwarzenegger’s State Employee Wage Order | |
August 7, 2008 | Cavala: Espionage “Double Agent” For the N.R.A. Linked by Lobbyist to McCain Campaign | |
August 7, 2008 | Drilling for Oil Offshore Will Produce Less Oil Than We Can Save by Proper Tire Pressure | |
August 6, 2008 | Transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Remarks on State Budget, Vetoing Legislation Until One is Passed, and Answers to Questions About What He Said About Taxes | |
August 6, 2008 | Cavala: Republicans Call For $18 Billion Tax Increase? Why, That Can’t Be True-- Not After All Those Pledges And Promises? | |
August 6, 2008 | Major Legislation to Clean Up Port Pollution Passes California Senate and is Landing on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk | |
August 6, 2008 | Wildland Fires And Penny Candy-- Will The California Senate Continue To Allow Lives To Be Endangered, When Safety Would Cost Less Than 5 Cents Per Person? | |
August 6, 2008 | The Decline And Fall Of Arnold Schwarzenegger | |
August 6, 2008 | Good News for Conservation Advocates - Nestle Cancels Contract for McCloud Water Bottling Project | |
August 6, 2008 | McCains Gone Wild | |
August 5, 2008 | Perata: The Latest on California Budget Negotiations | |
August 5, 2008 | A Health Impact Assessment of the California Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act of 2008 is our site of the day | |
August 5, 2008 | Call Goes Out to California Legislators to Support Taxes to Prevent Health Cuts | |
August 5, 2008 | Democratic Senator Florez and Republican Senator Denham Had a Lot of Questions About Governor Schwarzenegger’s Pay Order—and Didn’t Believe Much of What They Heard From Administration at Hearing | |
August 5, 2008 | Field Poll Shows 73% of California Voters Favor Law to Guarantee Paid Sick Days to All Workers—Legislation Pending in Last Month of Session | |
August 5, 2008 | California Budget Crisis - Day 35 | |
August 5, 2008 | Schrag: August in California Isn’t a Pretty Song | |
August 5, 2008 | ‘Common-sense’ Bill to Save Food for the Hungry—Instead of the Trash Faces Looming Deadline in California Legislature | |
August 5, 2008 | We Can Help Californians With Disabilities Keep Their Jobs, Live Full Lives, and Avoid Hospital Stays By Passing SB 1198 | |
August 5, 2008 | Expose the Real Culprits! | |
August 5, 2008 | Arnold's Sales Tax Proposal | |
August 4, 2008 | What California’s Elected Controller John Chiang Told the Senate Governmental Organization Committee Hearing on the Governor’s Executive Order on Pay | |
August 4, 2008 | Cavala: Dead-Even National Polls Conceal Huge Obama Lead in Electoral Votes | |
August 4, 2008 | Clean Money and Fair Elections Have a Fighting Chance in California—Today’s Hearing Will Be Crucial | |
August 4, 2008 | George Skelton’s “Dance of Death” Paints an Accurate Picture of the California Budget Process | |
August 4, 2008 | Governor and California Legislative Leaders Meet Sunday--No Budget Deal--But Talks Will Continue | |
August 4, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Borrows a Page from Newt Gingrich | |
August 3, 2008 | Political Rutting Season Begins Early for 2010 California Governor’s Race | |
August 3, 2008 | Cavala: New Survey Shows Alaska U.S. Senator Stevens With Commanding Lead – in G.O.P. Primary | |
August 3, 2008 | Key California Assembly Committee to Receive Testimony Urging Passage of Foreclosure Moratorium Where Financial Institution Fraud Occurred | |
August 3, 2008 | Losing Focus on High Speed Rail | |
August 3, 2008 | Landmark Credit Card Reform Bill Moves to House Floor - California Congressional Representatives are Split on Vote | |
August 3, 2008 | Oh, No. Not Joe Biden | |
August 2, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Order on State Employee Pay Harms California’s Middle Class and is Counterproductive on Budget Negotiations | |
August 2, 2008 | Presidential Considerations: Obama v. McCain | |
August 1, 2008 | Rally at the Capitol and Legal Actions—Two Moves of the Day--as California State Workers Don’t Want to Be Pawns in a Schwarzenegger Game | |
August 1, 2008 | Schwarzenegger’s Pay Cut Stunt Not Very Popular Judging by Who is Saying What and Those Who Do Not Want to Talk About It | |
August 1, 2008 | Garamendi Announces He is Running for Governor of California | |
August 1, 2008 | Republicans See the Public as Losers and Whiners | |
August 1, 2008 | Exxon is Pumping Cash Not Oil | |
July 31, 2008 | If Politics is About Timing, This One by Arnold Schwarzenegger is “Priceless” | |
July 31, 2008 | Letter of California State Controller John Chiang to Governor Schwarzenegger That He Will Not Comply With Order Cutting State Worker Pay and Explaining His Reasons | |
July 31, 2008 | Transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Comments While Signing Executive Order on State Worker Pay and Answering Questions From the Press | |
July 31, 2008 | Text of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Executive Order Reducing State Worker Pay | |
July 31, 2008 | PPIC Poll: Californians Strongly Support Aggressive Global Warming Action—But Contrary to Other Polls, Slight Majority Favor More Oil Drilling Off Coast | |
July 31, 2008 | Schrag: Schwarzenegger Pay Cut Budget Trick is Latest in 5 Years of Missed Leadership | |
July 31, 2008 | What Arnold's Executive Order Means to Student Employees | |
July 31, 2008 | Conference Committee’s California Budget Proposal is the Only One That Makes Sense for Public Transit | |
July 31, 2008 | New Study on Public Health Benefits of Paid Sick Leave Just In Time for California Legislation | |
July 31, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week Five | |
July 30, 2008 | Perata Shoots Down Trial Balloons on Raiding Transportation Funds to Close California Budget Gap | |
July 30, 2008 | “An Implementation Strategy for the California Ocean Protection Council Resolution to Reduce and Prevent Ocean Litter” is our site of the day | |
July 30, 2008 | Cavala: Are Democratic Elected Officials More Honest Than Republican Ones? | |
July 30, 2008 | Yesterday’s Southern California Earthquake a Reminder of Why You Want Government to Work | |
July 30, 2008 | Closure Tomorrow of Two Notorious California Juvenile Prison Facilities is Beginning of Needed Reform | |
July 30, 2008 | California State Workers With Black Cots on Capitol Lawn Tell What Schwarzenegger’s Wage Cut Will Mean to Them and Their Families | |
July 29, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Says He Plans to Sign Executive Order Cutting State Workers’ Pay on Thursday Despite Mounting and Near Universal Opposition | |
July 29, 2008 | State Budget Gaps Triple for '09 | |
July 29, 2008 | Fish and Conservation Groups Blast Schwarzenegger-Feinstein Water Bond Boondoggle | |
July 29, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Gets Boxes of Petitions Against His Threat of Reducing State Worker Pay Below California’s Minimum Wage | |
July 29, 2008 | Protecting California’s Troops and Their Jobs | |
July 29, 2008 | Fixing California’s Dropout Problem Requires a Big Picture Solution | |
July 29, 2008 | Obama Rumblings in Heretofore Red Amador County | |
July 29, 2008 | A Californian Goes to Dubai and Discovers Disneyland | |
July 28, 2008 | California May Be Heading to Constitutional Standoff on Schwarzenegger’s Plan for Payment of Less Than Full Salaries to State Employees With Unanswered Questions: Thursday May Be D-Day | |
July 28, 2008 | Cavala: Feinstein Swamps All Lesser Boats in Contest for Governor | |
July 28, 2008 | What Was Schwarzenegger Thinking About When He Proposed Cutting State Workers’ Pay to the Minimum Wage? | |
July 28, 2008 | A Republican Play to Change Labor Laws as Part of California Budget Deal? The Dangers of Closed Door Negotiations | |
July 28, 2008 | How Industry Lobbying Slowed Salmonella Search: The Need for California and National Action to Ensure Food Safety | |
July 27, 2008 | Cavala: Former Republican Caucus Staffer Masquerades as Civil Rights Champion in Bogus California Redistricting Argument | |
July 27, 2008 | The Failure of the FDIC in the Wake of IndyMac: What Can Be Done to Protect Small Businesses in California and the Nation | |
July 27, 2008 | A Tax Commission for California? How It Can Be Made to Work | |
July 27, 2008 | Prop 1 and State Bond Debt: California Can Afford High Speed Rail | |
July 27, 2008 | Schwarzenegger’s Move on State Workers’ Pay: A Cynical and Heartless Political Move | |
July 26, 2008 | Cavala: Wyoming’s Two G.O.P. Senators Support Oil Drilling Off Our Coast - Oppose Drilling In Wyoming | |
July 26, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week Four | |
July 26, 2008 | California Budget Loot That Won't Stay Stolen: Transportation Money and Prop 42 | |
July 26, 2008 | Jack O’Connell: California’s Alarming Dropout Rate and the Support Our Children Need | |
July 25, 2008 | Cavala: Latest California Field Poll Remind Us That It’s the Economy, Stupid! Inflation Worries Mean Regime Change | |
July 25, 2008 | California’s Largest Family Owned Restaurant, Scoma’s on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, Concerned About State Water Policy and Decline of Salmon | |
July 25, 2008 | Cavala: Rich-Guy Governor Demonstrates Insensitivity to Salaried Employees of California’s Government | |
July 25, 2008 | Political Robo Calls Are Illegal in California: You Can Help Enforce the Law and Protect Your Privacy | |
July 25, 2008 | I'd Buy That for $10 - Access To California State Parks | |
July 25, 2008 | Cal in the Capitol Gives Students a Bird’s Eye View of State Politics and Public Policy | |
July 25, 2008 | 11 Things I've Learned Running Over 100 Bond and Tax Measure Campaigns in California | |
July 25, 2008 | A McCain Meltdown? | |
July 24, 2008 | “The Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction” is our Site of the Day | |
July 24, 2008 | Cavala: Field Poll Suggests G.O.P. “Comeuppance” This November in California | |
July 24, 2008 | California Voters Prefer Democratic Party Over Republicans by 23 Point Margin--and in Generic Vote for Congress Give Democrats a 20 Point Advantage—Largest Gap Seen in Field Poll | |
July 24, 2008 | California House Races Roundup - July Edition | |
July 24, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Proposes Forcing State Employees to “Loan” the State Money | |
July 24, 2008 | Californians! You Can Now Create Your Own State Budget and Send It to Your Legislators and the Governor | |
July 24, 2008 | California Environmental and Fishery Groups Target Logging in Last-Ditch Effort to Save Salmon | |
July 23, 2008 | Reaction to Breaking News: Schwarzenegger Plans to Slash Pay for 200,000 State Workers to Federal Minimum Wage During Budget Standoff | |
July 23, 2008 | "Finding the Balance: A Vision for Water Supply and Environmental Reliability in California" is Our Site of the Day | |
July 23, 2008 | Cavala: Free ‘Duke’ Cunningham? Will President Bush Overlook the Minor Transgressions of an Otherwise Loyal Conservative-- Again? | |
July 23, 2008 | Schwarzenegger and Legislature Rated Low By California Voters: State Seriously Off on Wrong Track Amidst Serious Budget Problems and Declining Confidence They Will Do What is Right to Resolve It | |
July 23, 2008 | Incoming California Senate Leader Steinberg Speaks Truth to the State Budget | |
July 23, 2008 | Mandatory Community Service Needed to Combat Graffiti and Vandalism in California | |
July 23, 2008 | State Senate Majority Leader Romero Calls For New Rules Protecting Public Access to California’s Courts | |
July 23, 2008 | California Candidates and Electeds Flock to Netroots Nation to Talk to Bloggers | |
July 22, 2008 | "Fighting Oil Addiction: Ranking States' Oil Vulnerability and Solutions for Change" by the Natural Resources Defense Council is our site of the day | |
July 22, 2008 | California Rural Democrats Surging-- Alyson Huber is “Change We Can Believe In” for 10th Assembly District | |
July 22, 2008 | Cavala: California Voters’ Initial ‘Take’ On Redistricting Scheme Presages Its Defeat | |
July 22, 2008 | With These California Health Cuts, Everybody Hurts: What You Can Do About It Today | |
July 22, 2008 | Early California Ballot Props Polling: High Speed Rail, Treatment of Farm Animals, and Renewable Energy Have Majority Support, Parental Notification of Teen Abortions and Redistricting Ahead But With Less Than Majority | |
July 22, 2008 | Long Awaited Bill to Clean Up Health Damaging Pollution from California’s Ports Expected to Land Soon on Governor’s Desk | |
July 22, 2008 | Schrag: A Look Behind the California High School Dropout Numbers | |
July 22, 2008 | The Faith Based Charade | |
July 21, 2008 | National Journey from Opposition to Proposition Starts in California with High Speed Rail | |
July 21, 2008 | Cavala: Rehash of Perata Investigation is Bogus Journalism | |
July 21, 2008 | California Workers Receive Some of the Lowest Benefits in the Nation for Lifetime Disabling Injuries—Hearings Start Today on Schwarzenegger Fix Seen as Inadequate | |
July 21, 2008 | California Crime Victim Office Budget Cut Would Be Pennywise and Pound Foolish | |
July 20, 2008 | One of the Great Moral and Political Issue of Our Time in California —Water, Fish, and the Environment | |
July 20, 2008 | Dems Pushback on California Budget: No Borrowing | |
July 20, 2008 | Mining's Toxic Legacy in the California Sierras | |
July 20, 2008 | Restore the Delta Challenges Public Policy Institute's Report Supporting Peripheral Canal | |
July 19, 2008 | California Bush Disapproval Ratings Highest Ever Recorded by Field Poll—Higher Than Nixon—By 75% to 15% U.S. is Seriously Off on Wrong Track | |
July 19, 2008 | The Democratic California State Budget: A Mix of New Revenues and Tough Cuts and no Risky Borrowing Schemes | |
July 19, 2008 | The Heller Gun Decision Week Three--Fun and Games Continue | |
July 19, 2008 | A Life That Mattered: Remembering Elbert Johns--Led March of 3,000 to State Capitol | |
July 19, 2008 | Coverage of the Jackson Comment on Obama Missed the Underlying Issue and Its History | |
July 18, 2008 | Improving California's Foster Care System: Why the Governor Should Sign AB 3051 | |
July 18, 2008 | California Adopts America’s First State‐Wide Green Building Code | |
July 18, 2008 | California Voters Rejecting Ballot Proposition to Overturn Supreme Court Ruling on Same Sex Marriage 51% to 42% in Field Poll: An Analysis of the Numbers | |
July 18, 2008 | The California LGBT Legislative Caucus in a Year of Enormous Change | |
July 18, 2008 | Reality Takes a Vacation on the California State Budget | |
July 18, 2008 | Californians! Create Your Own State Budget | |
July 18, 2008 | Rising Costs and Universal Health Care in California | |
July 17, 2008 | Rising Gas Prices Have Had Major Impact on California—Seen as Serious Problem by Voters—Offshore Drilling Opposed, Nuclear Plants and LNG Supported, State’s Auto Emissions Standards Supported Per Field Poll | |
July 17, 2008 | Californians Criticize Arnold for Not Reaching Budget Deal | |
July 17, 2008 | California Single Payer Health Bill—SB 840 (Kuehl)--Moves Again Towards Governor’s Desk | |
July 17, 2008 | PacifiCorp Surprises Klamath Dam Removal Advocates by Pulling Permit Application | |
July 17, 2008 | Top Priority Air Quality Legislation Passes California Assembly - SB 974 Is One Step Closer To The Governor's Desk | |
July 17, 2008 | Satire and Politics: The New Yorker Cover | |
July 16, 2008 | Do Republican Legislators Have a Real California Budget? | |
July 16, 2008 | Schwarzenegger and Feinstein Offer Up Another Round Of Water Bond Talks, Legislature Responds With Timely Water Package | |
July 16, 2008 | Obama Beats McCain by 24 Points in California in Field Poll—More Indications Republicans Are In Trouble in Golden State | |
July 16, 2008 | Cavala: Could Redistricting ‘Reform’ Make California Competitive For John McCain? (No) | |
July 16, 2008 | A Warning to All Mortgage Lenders in California and the Nation | |
July 16, 2008 | Time for Action on California Budget Conference Committee Bill | |
July 15, 2008 | New Reports on California’s Budget from the California Budget Project Are Our Sites of the Day | |
July 15, 2008 | Are Some Republican Legislators Trying to Kill High Speed Rail in California by Failing to Support Reforms in AB 3034? | |
July 15, 2008 | We Cannot Drill Our Way to Lower Oil Prices: California Needs to Send a Clear Message to the Federal Government | |
July 15, 2008 | Schrag: California Algebra Testing—Business Community Needs to Show Us the Money or We Need a Bigger Whip | |
July 15, 2008 | California Knows: Offshore Drilling Doesn’t Make “Cents” | |
July 15, 2008 | Why Service Workers Are On Strike at University of California Campuses and Medical Centers | |
July 15, 2008 | Wrong Way for California to Fight Counterfeit Drugs | |
July 14, 2008 | Top Priority Port Air Quality Legislation Headed For Key California Assembly Vote, Perhaps Tomorrow | |
July 14, 2008 | New Fed Rules on Subprime Loans and Implications for California | |
July 14, 2008 | Use McCain (not Bush) to beat McCain | |
July 14, 2008 | The Chemical Industry's War on California Toxics Reform | |
July 14, 2008 | California Air Board’s Confidence in Cap and Trade is Misplaced | |
July 14, 2008 | The End of the Reagan Revolution and Return of FDR and Keynes | |
July 14, 2008 | Improving California’s Central Valley Air—One Bill at a Time | |
July 13, 2008 | June California Primary Election Had Lowest Vote Turnout--And the Highest Vote by Mail Ever | |
July 13, 2008 | A Watershed Election Year in California | |
July 13, 2008 | California High Speed Rail Is an Attractive Investment | |
July 13, 2008 | Cavala: McCain’s Personal Qualities Are Questionable For A President | |
July 12, 2008 | California Budget Must Prioritize Fire Safety | |
July 12, 2008 | Priority Toxics Bills Important to the Health of Californians Near the Finish Line | |
July 11, 2008 | Once Almost Invisible in California’s High Rise Buildings, Janitors Make Visible Progress for Service Workers | |
July 11, 2008 | Schwarzenegger Supports Prop 1—California High Speed Rail | |
July 11, 2008 | Schwarzenegger-Feinstein Water Bond Would Mean More of the Same | |
July 11, 2008 | California Neutrality Law Struck By U.S. Supreme Court Kept Public Monies Out Of Labor Relations | |
July 11, 2008 | Water Deal Leaves Bad Taste, California Transfers Contaminated Groundwater in Drinking Water Supply for Millions | |
July 11, 2008 | Republican Party Fuels Aghazarian's Senate Campaign Against Wolk--Lack of Competitive Races Fuels Push for Redistricting With Possible SEIU Surprise | |
July 11, 2008 | Was Obama Too Swift in Rejecting General Wesley Clark’s Salvo on McCain? | |
July 11, 2008 | Heller Week Two – The Conundrums Continue on Guns | |
July 10, 2008 | If It’s July, We Must Be Talking About the California Budget | |
July 10, 2008 | Children's Coverage Gets Cut By California Budget Conference Committee: More Than a Quarter-Million Kids to Lose Insurance | |
July 10, 2008 | California Must Change the Way Land Use and Transportation Decisions are Made to Reduce Greenhouse Gases that Cause Global Warming and Implement AB 32 | |
July 10, 2008 | California Needs to Get Costs Under Control Without Cutting Health Care: Report Shows How Smarter Spending Can Rein in Rising Premiums | |
July 10, 2008 | Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Single Payer? | |
July 10, 2008 | California Delta’s Striped Bass Under Attack by Kern County Water Agencies Posing as Environmentalists--Intervention Planned in Federal Water Case | |
July 10, 2008 | Now is the Time for Congressional Democrats to Show Backbone | |
July 9, 2008 | New California Law Helps Working Families Facing Home Foreclosure—And Hopefully More is on the Way | |
July 9, 2008 | A National Launch with a California Twist: Unprecedented Campaign Launches to Win Health Reform | |
July 9, 2008 | California Assembly and Senate Conference Committee Passes Budget Bill: Floor Votes Presumably to be Scheduled | |
July 9, 2008 | The Democrat’s Smart Income Tax Solution to the California Budget Deficit | |
July 9, 2008 | Additional Freedom of Press Protections for Students at California High Schools and Colleges Appears Headed to Governor’s Desk | |
July 8, 2008 | California’s Unique Role as “Health Care for America Now!” is Launched | |
July 8, 2008 | Air France Looks to High Speed Rail for its Future—How About California? | |
July 8, 2008 | Making California’s Schools Work for All Central to Democracy | |
July 8, 2008 | Schrag: The More We Pass Ballot Initiatives. The More California’s Elected Government Atrophies | |
July 8, 2008 | You’ve Got Targeted Political Mail | |
July 7, 2008 | Fighting Cancer for Women’s Health: A Historic Opportunity to Pass Legislation in California | |
July 7, 2008 | Cavala: Dog Days of Summer Hit the Capitol in Sacramento | |
July 7, 2008 | The Collapse of Federal Firefighting in California | |
July 7, 2008 | A Banner Year for California Democrats: Better Than the Post Watergate 1976 Election? | |
July 7, 2008 | The California Progress Report Welcomes Repo |
RSS