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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 Reporter Kyle Samia and His First Dispatch

July 7, 2008

The South Yuba River--One of California's Rivers of Constant Sorrow

July 7, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Heller Decision on the Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms--One Week Later

July 6, 2008

California's Fires and Katrina's Legacy

July 6, 2008

On July 4, Contra Costa Seniors and People with Disabilities Celebrate Their Independence and Hope It Will Last

July 6, 2008

California Senate Opposition to High Speed Rail Improvements Grasping at Straws

July 6, 2008

Salmon Fishing in California Central Valley Rivers Closes

July 5, 2008

There Goes Worker Safety

July 5, 2008

California Trout Rescues Fishing License Funds From Schwarzenegger's Raid

July 4, 2008

International Human Rights Come Home to California: Legislators Briefed on Torture Survivors in State and Their Needs

July 4, 2008

California Budget Conference Committee Closes Out Most Health Items--For Now

July 4, 2008

We Don’t Need New Laws in California on Paparazzi

July 3, 2008

California Foreclosure Relief Bill Passed and Governor Indicates He Will Sign It

July 3, 2008

Feds Say California's Fires Aren't a Disaster

July 3, 2008

Schwarzenegger Administration to Protect Students From Predatory Trade School Practices by Voluntary Compliance With Old Law Until a New One is Passed

July 3, 2008

Some California Cities Living in the Last Century by Requiring Lawns to be Green

July 3, 2008

California’s Comprehensive Plan to Fight Global Warming: A Strong Step Forward, But Land Use Reform in Particular Needs to be Added

July 2, 2008

The Tragic Collapse of State Oversight of For-Profit Career Schools in California With Assembly Defeat of SB 823

July 2, 2008

California State Senate Starts Clearing a Path for High Speed Rail in November

July 2, 2008

The Sacred McCow

July 2, 2008

Expect to Fight for Marriage Equality in the November California Election: Lawsuit to Keep Prop 8 Off Ballot Not Likely to Succeed

July 2, 2008

New California Law Grants Protection for Domestic Violence Survivors

July 2, 2008

Vessel Watch Project Watches for the Next Cosco Busan

July 1, 2008

California Assembly Passes Foreclosure Reform Bill But More Needed to Protect Future Borrowers from Predatory Loan Practices

July 1, 2008

Happy New Fiscal Year California!

July 1, 2008

California’s Climate Plan Snowball Starts Its Roll

July 1, 2008

Schrag: Marijuana Raids Make California Less Safe from Fires as Priorities and Funding Go Up in Smoke

July 1, 2008

The Markers are Here for a New Progressive Era

June 30, 2008

It’s Official - California’s Death Penalty is a Multi-Million Dollar Failure. Now What?

June 30, 2008

Report and Recommendations on the Administration of the Death Penalty in California, by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice, is our site of the day

June 30, 2008

San Francisco Mayor Newsom Defends Gun Violence Laws and Goes Full Bore After New Approaches to Reduce Homicides and Crime

June 30, 2008

California Needs Water Policy Emphasizing Recycling, Efficiency, and Smarter Management of Groundwater and Urban Runoff

June 30, 2008

Progressive Obama Critics Should Study FDR

June 29, 2008

How Will California Respond to $200 a Barrel Oil?

June 29, 2008

Blaming Same-Sex Marriage for California’s Fires

June 29, 2008

Fall Out From the Supreme Court Gun Decision in Heller

June 29, 2008

Where Do Californians’ Health Dollars Go?

June 28, 2008

Assembly Speaker Emeritus Fabian Nunez Applauds Recent Progress of AB 32--California’s Landmark Global Warming Initiative

June 28, 2008

While We Talk of More Dams and Peripheral Canals, Another Delta Species Endangered-- The Longfin Smelt

June 27, 2008

Noted California Expert Irwin Nowick on Supreme Court Decision Interpreting the Second Amendment on the Right to Bear Arms and How It May Affect Existing and Proposed Laws

June 27, 2008

Propositions Numbered 1 to 11 on California November Ballot as Deadline Passes--But Legislature and Governor Could Place Additional Measures—and Might With Budget Related Items

June 27, 2008

Cavala: High Court’s Second Amendment Decision is a Common Sense Ratification of the Public’s Majority Opinion

June 27, 2008

"Drill Now" Usual Rightwing Diversion from Real Energy Independence Policy

June 27, 2008

Schwarzenegger Administration Endorses High Speed Rail to Meet Global Warming Targets

June 27, 2008

Much Ado About Doolittle McClintock

June 27, 2008

Politics and California Redistricting

June 26, 2008

Spending Limit: Been There, Done That

June 26, 2008

New California Global Warming Plan Lights the Way to a Greener Economy--Oil Companies Must Not Be Allowed to Block Progress

June 26, 2008

More Californians Getting News Online—Digital Divide Most Pronounced With Latinos—Support for Local Government Provided Broadband Access—According to New PPIC Survey

June 26, 2008

New Analysis Reveals Full Impact of Governor’s Health Cuts: One Million More Californians Would Lose Health Coverage

June 26, 2008

California Paid Sick Days Bill Moves Forward as Studies Evaluate the Bill’s Impact

June 26, 2008

California: Take the Danger Out of Cleaning Products

June 26, 2008

California One Step Closer to Asking Federal Government to Restore Recognition of Winnemem Wintu Tribe

June 26, 2008

California Health Bills Pass to Require 85% of Premium to Go to Patient Care; Regulate Rescissions; Foster a Public Insurer; Discourage "Never Events," Encourage Hospital Community Benefits

June 26, 2008

California Health Cancellation Bill Now Includes Key Patient Protections and Should be Passed by State Senate

June 26, 2008

California Conservatives Continue to Oppose Fire Protection

June 25, 2008

"Prop. 13 at 30: Political, Economic and Fiscal Impacts" including webcasts and podcasts, is our site of the day

June 25, 2008

EPA Refusal to Provide Congress Documents on Denial of California Greenhouse Gas Waiver Worst Since Nixon

June 25, 2008

Breaking News: California Attorney General Brown Sues Countrywide For Mortgage Deception

June 25, 2008

Wolk's Fish Rescue Plans Bill Passes Out of California Senate Committee

June 25, 2008

The “G” in GOP Stands for “Ghoul”

June 25, 2008

Ballot Opposition Committee--"Californians for Safe Food"-- Animal Abuse by Any Other Name

June 25, 2008

Aftermoth: A Legacy of Pain and Ethical Considerations About Spraying Untested Chemicals on Californians

June 25, 2008

Bad News for the Delta - Assembly Committee Passes SB 994, Gutting Protections for Delta Smelt

June 25, 2008

Accountability in California State Health Boards and Legislation That Can Help

June 24, 2008

Bill Requiring Subdivisions Be Built With Fire Safety Planning Faces Key Vote Tomorrow--Will Development and Greed Kill Common Sense in California?

June 24, 2008

Cavala: Oakland’s Governance Resembles Marx Brothers Movie

June 24, 2008

Schrag: Uncertainty Principle Underlies Math Testing in California

June 24, 2008

Cavala: Latino Caucus Leader Achieves Milestone in Awareness of California Non-Profit Foundations

June 24, 2008

California Congressional Candidate Charlie Brown Opposes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—FISA—Based on His Military Experience

June 24, 2008

New Poll Shows California Voters Strongly Support State Global Warming Action--and How Far Republican Legislators Are Out of Step in Linking Their Votes on the Budget to Delays in Enforcement

June 24, 2008

Paying More, Getting Less: How Much is the Sick Health Care System Costing You?

June 24, 2008

Do Leaders Really Lead in the Political Arena or Do They Follow?

June 23, 2008

Need to Truck and Release 20.2 Million Central Valley Salmon into San Pablo Bay is Sad Commentary on Health of California Delta

June 23, 2008

Discrimination in Individual Health Insurance Market Demonstrates Need for California Legislation and Calls into Question McCain’s Health Plan

June 23, 2008

Cavala: Panetta ‘Reform’ Commission Rehashes Old Issues, Provides No Realistic New Ideas

June 23, 2008

California High Speed Rail and the High Price of Gasoline

June 23, 2008

The Groundhog Day Election in Los Angeles

June 22, 2008

40th Anniversary of Poor People’s March on Washington is Opportunity for Californians to Act on King’s Dream

June 22, 2008

Marriages, Hoses, and Dogs: California Will Defeat Anti Marriage Equality Ballot Measure in November

June 22, 2008

California’s Environment, Executive Privilege, and the Bush Administration

June 22, 2008

Lessons of the Light Brown Apple Moth for California

June 21, 2008

The Peculiar Response of Some Californians to Conserving Water

June 21, 2008

Why Assembly Democrats are Considering Reforms to the Lottery to Help Fund Needed California Services

June 20, 2008

Lawsuits, Legislation, and Pressure by Throngs of Californians Stop Aerial Pesticide Spray Over Urban Areas for Light Brown Apple Moth

June 20, 2008

Why I Oppose the Death Penalty

June 20, 2008

Building California Freeways Near Schools Contributes to Unhealthy Conditions

June 20, 2008

Landmark Legislation Will Help Californians Save for Retirement

June 20, 2008

Thousands of Californians Protest Health Insurance Lobbyists and Support Single Payer

June 20, 2008

Recreational Miners Threaten Struggling Fisheries in California

June 19, 2008

Why We Can’t Let Republican Legislators Take the California State Budget Hostage for Their Narrow Agenda

June 19, 2008

California Health Reform Bills Closer to Governor’s Desk as They Pass Committees in Second House

June 19, 2008

Governor Extends Slot Machine Compact--Big Donation to Redistricting ‘Reform’

June 19, 2008

Offshore Drilling for Oil in California or Elsewhere is Not the Answer

June 19, 2008

Redistricting in California: Control or Democracy?

June 18, 2008

Your Privacy Protected: Bill That Would Have Allowed Pharmacies to Share Patient Records with Drug Companies Unanimously Defeated in California Assembly Health Committee

June 18, 2008

Groundbreaking RAND Study: California Children Who Could Benefit Most from High-Quality Preschool Least Likely to be Enrolled

June 18, 2008

Fate of Mortgage Reform in California May Be Decided This Afternoon in State Senate Banking Committee--Are They Listening to Us?

June 18, 2008

Schrag: Prop 13 Breaks for Corporations Have Cost Counties, Cities, and Local Schools Billions

June 18, 2008

Obama and the Al Gore Presidency We Should Have Had in 2000

June 18, 2008

PG&E Seeks Reliably Higher Rates From California Public Utilities Commissison

June 18, 2008

Cavala: Republican Redistricting Scheme Loses Fig Leaf as the California Democratic Party Votes to Oppose It

June 18, 2008

Will All Judges Who Have Viewed Porn Please Stand Up?

June 17, 2008

Requiem for Republicans

June 17, 2008

Cavala: What Will California’s Budget Deadlock Bring?

June 17, 2008

Marriage Equality Shows California Progressives Should Think Big

June 17, 2008

A California Hostage Crisis, Not a Budget Negotiation

June 17, 2008

Global Warming and Oil: California Leads the Way With Many Silver BB’s Rather Than a Single Silver Bullet

June 16, 2008

LAO Confirms California Single Payer Reduces Health Care Spending, Contains Annual Growth

June 16, 2008

The “2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-being” is our site of the day

June 16, 2008

Cavala: Congratulations to New DNC Member Jess Durfee from San Diego

June 16, 2008

$30,000 a Day for Care of Brain Dead Prisoner? Medical Release Legislation Provides Rare Opportunity to Alleviate Deficit and Prison Crowding

June 16, 2008

Speeches and Action at This Weekend’s California Democratic Party Meeting

June 16, 2008

Justice for Injured Workers in California is Becoming More Unattainable

June 15, 2008

California Heading for Catastrophe With Airlines While Ignoring High Speed Rail

June 15, 2008

How to Follow the California Budget Process as Legislative Conference Committee Meets to Reconcile Differences

June 15, 2008

California Needs to Remember History of the Last Major Drought in This Year’s Water Transfers and Our Response

June 15, 2008

Taking Consumer Representation Seriously on Health Care Issues

June 14, 2008

The California Assembly Democratic Plan to Solve the Budget Crisis

June 14, 2008

Utility Companies and their Allies Gear Up in Opposition to Solar and Clean Energy Proposition Before Statewide California Democratic Meeting

June 14, 2008

The Republican “Voters First” Initiative

June 13, 2008

California Progressives May Swing the Vote This Weekend in Electing Democratic National Committee Members

June 13, 2008

Eyebrows Raised Over Former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe Appearance as Paid Speaker at Health Insurance Convention in San Francisco Next Week

June 13, 2008

Environmental, Organized Labor, and Clean Power Leaders Urge California Democratic Party E-Board to Oppose Flawed “Renewables” Initiative This Weekend

June 13, 2008

Prison University - Enrolling California Students Now

June 13, 2008

Public Disclosure of Hospital Safety and Quality Information Needed in California—We Need to Pass AB 2967

June 12, 2008

California Gets Failing Grade on Consumer Health Protections--New Spotlight on Pending Protections in Legislature

June 12, 2008

Bush Tries to Raid Salmon Disaster Funds-- West Coast Members of Congress Send Stinging Letter

June 12, 2008

Garamendi Blasts California Agency Participation in Secret Meetings With Feds To Build Toll Road Through State Park

June 12, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger Proposes Transit Cuts and Says Nothing About Gasoline Prices

June 12, 2008

Why the 50-State Primary Was Good for Democrats

June 12, 2008

Cut That OTHER Spending Out of the California Budget!

June 12, 2008

State Auditor Finds Proposed California Death Row Facility to Cost Millions More Than Originally Projected

June 11, 2008

Grass Roots 2, Big Media 0

June 11, 2008

Failure on California High School Exit Exam Can Be Predicted as Early as the Fourth Grade

June 11, 2008

A Creative, Long-Term California Budget Solution That Finds a Middle Ground

June 11, 2008

Schrag: What We Can Learn From the Graduating Class of ‘08

June 11, 2008

Mercury Insurance: What Won't Be Mentioned at Today’s Press Conference with Commissioner Poizner

June 10, 2008

“Immigrant Pathways to Legal Permanent Residence”, by the Public Policy Institute of California is our site of the day

June 10, 2008

An Unhealthy Trend in Health Insurance and Also in the Individual Market

June 10, 2008

Abuses of Legislative ‘Ghost Voting’ Are Virtually Always Corrected – By Legislators

June 10, 2008

California Field Poll Shows Voters Prefer Budget Cuts to New Taxes in Theory, But Oppose Specific Cuts When Identified

June 10, 2008

There IS a Better Way to Fund California Education

June 10, 2008

Little Noticed Election Sunday of California Democratic Committee Members is Important

June 10, 2008

The Truth About Prop 13

June 10, 2008

Progressive Taxes Can Solve California’s Fiscal Uncertainty

June 9, 2008

Cavala: Republicans Kill Reform Bill That Hurts G.O.P. Chances While Democrats Support ‘Reform’ That Hurts Their Chances

June 9, 2008

Massive Support Needed to Pass Delta Restoration Legislation Through California Senate: Water Interests Opposing Bill

June 9, 2008

Truth Telling on Iraq--From Inside the San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board Room

June 9, 2008

Will States Topple Electoral College?

June 8, 2008

Cavala: for Better or Worse, the Blog World’s “Public” is not the Voting Public

June 8, 2008

California’s 19th Senatorial District Deserves Better Than Tony Strickland

June 8, 2008

High Speed Politics Needed for Rail in California

June 8, 2008

Tuesday's California Election - As Usual It's About the Money

June 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton Endorses Barack Obama, Urges Party Unity —The Complete Transcript

June 7, 2008

California Field Poll Reports on What Californians Want from State and Local Government and What They Want to Pay

June 7, 2008

California House Races Roundup - Post-Primary

June 7, 2008

Celebrating California Graduations and the Role of Higher Education in Our Future

June 6, 2008

Hold the Presses! San Diego Union-Tribune Runs Primary Pre-Election Story…Today??

June 6, 2008

California Legislative Session Hits Midway Mark: What's the Environment Score at Halftime?

June 6, 2008

An Independent Expenditure Campaign that Backfired: Three Days Later, 8th Assembly District is Still a Stunner

June 6, 2008

Robert F. Kennedy: A Californian Reflects on His 1968 Campaign and Message of Hope and Reconciliation

June 6, 2008

California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres on the 40th Anniversary of the Death of Bobby Kennedy

June 6, 2008

Field Poll Shows Support for Prop 13 Remains Strong 30 Years Later, But Voters May Favor Some Changes

June 6, 2008

What’s More Important? The Rantings of Ministers or a Comparison of Obama’s and McCain’s Proposals on Iraq?

June 6, 2008

Clean Elections for U.S. House and Senate Moving Forward--California Congressional Delegation Will Play Pivotal Role

June 5, 2008

Write-In Votes Will Determine if Republican Senator Maldonado Has a Democratic Opponent on the November Ballot—If So, He May Be in Trouble

June 5, 2008

Thirty Years After Prop 13, California Voters Supported Tax Increases in Tuesday’s Election

June 5, 2008

Why Is Union Pacific Messing With California High Speed Rail?

June 5, 2008

Schwarzenegger Uses Drought Proclamation As Opportunity to Push for Dams: A Look at the Larger Picture

June 5, 2008

Big News in Today’s Field Poll: Boxer Positioned for Re-election

June 5, 2008

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Have Both Climbed Where None Have Before

June 5, 2008

Third in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: Changes by the Governor in His May Revision

June 5, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Drought Proclamation Offers a Challenge and an Opportunity

June 5, 2008

Hillary Clinton E-Mail Appeal Indicates She Supports Obama for President and Will Endorse at Saturday Event

June 4, 2008

A New Generation Takes the Torch: California Students Already at Work to Elect Barack Obama President

June 4, 2008

The Difficulties of Navigating Effective Legislation on the Subprime Mortgage Mess and Foreclosures Through the Gauntlet of the California Senate Banking Committee

June 4, 2008

Those Awful Political Ads: Thoughts on Election Day in California

June 4, 2008

Latest California Election Returns on Ballot Props and State Legislative Races

June 4, 2008

Schrag: Proposition 13 Turns 30: Compounding California’s Mess Something Awful

June 4, 2008

Fran Pavley—An Environmental Legend—Wins Democratic Primary for Kuehl Senate Seat

June 4, 2008

Call Him Senator Mark Leno: Progressive Winner Over Incumbent Migden and Independent Expenditures for Joe Nation by Large Margin in Heavy Democratic District

June 4, 2008

Nancy Skinner Wins Democratic Race for Loni Hancock’s Assembly Seat—and Hancock is Going to the State Senate

June 3, 2008

California Voters Roundly Defeat Landlord Backed Prop 98 and Pass Environmental Proposition 99 on Eminent Domain

June 3, 2008

Eight Ballot Measures Including Same Sex Marriage Already Lined up for November California Ballot—The Big Kahuna of Elections

June 3, 2008

Loni Hancock Proud of Grassroots Campaign for California State Senate—Encourages All to Vote Today

June 3, 2008

Field Poll Shows Huge Drop in Schwarzenegger Rating With California Voters

June 3, 2008

What to Look For Tonight in California‘s Congressional and Legislative Races

June 3, 2008

You Can Help the Environment Today—By Voting in California

June 3, 2008

California State Parks Budget Proposal is a Win-Win for Everyone

June 3, 2008

How to Stay Plugged in on Health Care

June 2, 2008

Where to Get Last Minute Information Before Voting Tomorrow in the California Primary Election

June 2, 2008

Election Day Tips for California Voters on Tomorrow’s Primary Election

June 2, 2008

Kennedy Recovering from Successful Surgery--Looking Forward to “Doing Everything I Can to Help Elect Barack Obama as Our Next President”

June 2, 2008

Cavala: New California Registration Figures May Mean Democratic Gains in State Assembly Seats

June 2, 2008

Poll: Roseville’s Democrat Charlie Brown Leads Republicans Ose and McClintock for Doolittle Congressional Seat

June 2, 2008

In Memory of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez and Her Unborn Child and All Farm Workers Who Have Died to Make our American Life Easier

June 2, 2008

Proud that California is Leading on Global Warming and Demanding Federal Government Action

June 2, 2008

Californians Want Permanent Budget Solutions - Not a Roll of the Dice

June 2, 2008

California With High Unemployment is One of a Dozen States with Low Jobless Benefits Reserves

June 2, 2008

Why I Reenlisted with Charlie Brown: A Different Kind of Campaign in California Congressional District 4 in November Has Already Started

June 2, 2008

Have We Forgotten About Iraq?

June 1, 2008

Why There Were Germs on the Steps of City Hall, or What I Learned About Paid Sick Leave

June 1, 2008

Prop 98 is Fueled by Avarice and Greed

June 1, 2008

Bush Approaches Nixon’s Low in Popularity-- Approval Limited to ‘Strong’ Conservatives and Most (52%) Republicans

June 1, 2008

What’s the matter with Los Angeles When It Comes to Elections?

May 31, 2008

New Voter Registration Data Show Democrats Continue to Surge in California Statewide and in Key Districts—Expect Pick up of Seats

May 31, 2008

Cavala: Field Poll Provides a Few “What If’s”--And a Daunting Challenge to the G.O.P.

May 31, 2008

Secretary of State Bowen: Why You Should Vote in Tuesday’s California Primary Election and How You Can Participate

May 31, 2008

California Budget Health Care Cuts and Choices Emerging in Committee Decisions

May 30, 2008

New Nestle Contract Seen as Opportunity for McCloud

May 30, 2008

California Flex Fuel Promise Rings Hollow

May 30, 2008

Red State-Blue State Culture and the California State Budget

May 30, 2008

Field Poll Shows Huge Swing in California Towards Obama—He Would Win Handily Over Clinton If Primary Were Held Today and They Both Trounce McCain

May 30, 2008

Major Subprime Lending Reform for California Passed by State Assembly

May 30, 2008

California Senate and Assembly Budget Panels Reject Schwarzenegger Proposed Major Cuts to In-Home Supportive Services--Large Crowds Pack Both Hearing Rooms

May 30, 2008

California Assembly Approves Right to Know End-of-Life Options Act

May 30, 2008

Waste Reduction and Recycling Bills Pass Floor Votes in California Legislature

May 29, 2008

California State Senate Fails to Pass Prison Health Construction Bond: Federal Court Receiver Demands $3.5 Billion, With More to Come, Worsening State Budget Deficit

May 29, 2008

Jack LaLanne Speaks to the California Legislature—A Rare Respite from the Crush of Bills

May 29, 2008

The Bush Administration's Ongoing Assault on Blue-State California: Spraying Us to Exterminate the Light Brown Apple Moth

May 29, 2008

Field Poll Predicts California Voters Will Reject Landlord Backed Prop 98 But May Pass Rival Prop 99 on Eminent Domain

May 29, 2008

The Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act on the November California Ballot

May 29, 2008

Assembly Passes First in Nation Bill to Provide Paid Sick Days to Working Californians

May 29, 2008

California’s ‘Extreme’ Drunk-Driving Law Needs to be Beefed Up

May 28, 2008

California Crunch Time: Full Assembly and Senate to Vote on Critical Environmental Bills This Week

May 28, 2008

Scott McClellan’s New Confessional: The "I Didn't Do It" Letter

May 28, 2008

Allowing Pharmacies to Divulge Your Private Medical Records so Drug Companies Can Market You in California? Floor Vote Tomorrow—Just Say No!

May 28, 2008

Democrats in California Senate District 15—Santa Maria to Santa Cruz--Should Write in Dennis Morris if They Want a Democrat on the Ballot to Challenge Republican Maldonado

May 28, 2008

California Field Poll Shows Voters Favor Same-Sex Marriage and Will Defeat November Ballot Measure to Overturn State Supreme Court Ruling

May 28, 2008

Schrag: Why the Marriage Exclusion Act May be Defeated in November in California

May 28, 2008

Key Health Bills Pass Floor Votes in California Legislature

May 28, 2008

A Smart California Port Policy for the Green-Growth Future, Spearheaded by Progressives - Part II

May 28, 2008

I Would Have Voted for the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 as a Member of Congress-- for Riverside County’s Families and Future

May 27, 2008

Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency is our site of the day

May 27, 2008

Second in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: The Budget Originally Proposed by the Governor in January

May 27, 2008

Why Students are Joining Others in Voting for Loni Hancock for State Senate

May 27, 2008

California Senate Vote Today on $7 Billion Prison Health Care Construction Bill

May 27, 2008

Once Again: California's Budget Crisis Isn't a Spending Crisis

May 27, 2008

A Smart California Port Policy for the Green-Growth Future, Spearheaded by Progressives

May 27, 2008

The Love of a Gay Man

May 27, 2008

We Live to Fight Another Day for Drug Discounts in California

May 26, 2008

Memorial Day Is an Excellent Opportunity to Focus on the Needs of Our Veterans in California

May 26, 2008

Memorial Day in California: Senator Feinstein on the Iraq War

May 25, 2008

Obama Has Support in the “White Working Class” Despite What the Pundits Say—A Look at the Numbers

May 25, 2008

Under a New Name, Cabaldon Supporters Spend Over $100,000 in Assembly Primary’s Final Week to Deliver Below-The-Belt Attack on Yamada

May 25, 2008

The Fork in the Road in California’s Health Care Conversation: 2008 and Beyond

May 25, 2008

Democratic Party Outlook: West Virginia And Beyond

May 25, 2008

Mayor Villaraigosa Calls for New Wave of Los Angeles Water Policy

May 25, 2008

Lois Wolk's Legislation To Protect Delta Fisheries Moves to the California Assembly Floor for Important Vote

May 24, 2008

Assemblymembers Leno and Levine Celebrate Marriage Equality Gains in California in this Week’s Democratic Weekly Radio Address

May 24, 2008

A Victory for Privacy: California Senate Rejects Bill to Allow Drug Marketing Firms Access to Patient Medical Records Without Consent

May 24, 2008

Sacramento Bee Coverage Of Local Mayor’s Race Has Been Awful

May 23, 2008

Teach Your Parents Well: California Public Opinion and the Same Sex Marriage Proposition

May 23, 2008

Why Blame Maldonado for the Mess Democrats Have in California’s 15th Senate District?

May 23, 2008

Green Business is Good Business in California

May 23, 2008

Eminent Domain, the Kelo Case, and Propositions 98 and 99

May 23, 2008

The “Job Killer” Frame in California and What’s Really Going On: Fear

May 22, 2008

Why Doesn't Abel Maldonado Want Voters to Have a Real Choice in November?

May 22, 2008

First in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl on the 2008 California State Budget: Background Information

May 22, 2008

Assessing the Effects of Medi-Cal’s Ten Percent Across-the-Board Provider Reimbursement Reductions on Access, Services and the Pharmacy Provider Network is our site of the day

May 22, 2008

Treasurer Bill Lockyer: California’s Unsung Champion of the Underserved

May 22, 2008

Protecting Our Air and Atmosphere Against Republican Rollbacks in California

May 22, 2008

Cavala: For Republicans, It Indeed Looks Like the Winter Of Discontent

May 22, 2008

Schwarzenegger and Republican Legislators Losing With California Voters on Budget According to PPIC Poll

May 22, 2008

California Prop 98 Heading for Rejection by Voters—Rival Prop 99 Has Narrow 8 Point Lead

May 22, 2008

California Reaches Record Recycling Levels - Legislation Proposes Recycling Expansion

May 21, 2008

Obama Beats McCain in California 54-37% and Wins All Groups Except Republicans in New PPIC Poll

May 21, 2008

How to Fix the Presidential Nomination Process…and Other Imaginary Tales

May 21, 2008

Landmark Law Allowing California to Negotiate Discounted Drugs May Be Defunded Before It Gets Started

May 21, 2008

Senate Candidate Loni Hancock Hit with Smear Campaign by Tribal Gaming Interests Hiding as Education Leaders in Massive and Deceptive Independent Expenditure Campaign

May 21, 2008

Schrag: Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gamble Not Facing Up to Real Choices Between Quality Services and the Revenues of Mediocrity

May 21, 2008

The Right vs. the Right to Die in California

May 21, 2008

The Bridge from Camelot

May 21, 2008

Job Killers -- Or Just More Fear from the California Chamber?

May 21, 2008

The Budget Deficit and High Speed Rail in California Are Totally Separate

May 20, 2008

Senator Kennedy, Thank You

May 20, 2008

Meeting the California Budget Challenge: Try This Experiment to Find Out How Difficult it is to Close a Deficit with a Two-Thirds Vote Requirement

May 20, 2008

‘Killer Cribs’ Study Finds Toxics in California Baby Products and Furniture: Leno Bill Banning Halogenated Fire Retardants Hailed As Solution

May 20, 2008

California Assemblyman Mike Gotch R.I.P.

May 20, 2008

Getting Sunshine on Public Pay Bargaining in California

May 20, 2008

Mothra: Why the Schwarzenegger Administration is Wrong About Spraying Californians With Toxic Chemicals

May 19, 2008

Legislative Analyst Close to Schwarzenegger on Budget Revenue and Expenditure Projections But Rips Him on Lottery and Solutions to the Mess

May 19, 2008

“Ready to Succeed: Changing Systems to Give California’s Foster Children the Opportunities They Deserve to be Ready for and Succeed in School” is our site of the day.

May 19, 2008

Drug Companies Would Be Held Accountable for Concealing Dangers Under Bill Awaiting California Assembly Floor Vote

May 19, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Proposal To Raise Payments To Disabled Workers Falls Short: Benefits Woefully Inadequate

May 19, 2008

Who Pays for Errors by a City Attorney? Are There Upcoming Lessons for Ventura and Other Cities in California?

May 18, 2008

Don't Forget Health Reform in the Context of California Budget Cuts and the May Revise

May 18, 2008

Renewed Opportunity for a Two-thirds Majority in the California Legislature: Democratic Write-In Candidate to Run Against Republican Senator Maldonado

May 18, 2008

The California Supreme Court Had No Other Choice on Same Sex Marriage—Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

May 18, 2008

Release of Medically Incapacitated Inmates Could Save California Taxpayers Hundreds of Millions in a Time of Budget Crisis

May 18, 2008

Prop 98 Erodes Essential California Environmental Protections; Prop 99 Protects Our Communities

May 18, 2008

Of Dams and Water Buffaloes: California Water Politics

May 18, 2008

The Campaign for High Speed Rail in California Begins Now—One Voter at a Time

May 17, 2008

The Independent Expenditures page of the California Fair Political Practices Commission is the site of the day

May 17, 2008

Mark Leno Sure Looks Like California Senate Winner Over Migden and Nation in SurveyUSA Poll

May 17, 2008

The Assembly Democratic Perspective on the May Revise and California’s Budget Crisis

May 17, 2008

California Proposition 98 Would Eliminate Rent Control, Tenant Protections, and a Lot More

May 17, 2008

The So-Called "Independent Expenditures" in California Assembly District 40

May 16, 2008

California Secretary of Food and Agriculture Responds to California Progress Report Article on Moth Spraying

May 16, 2008

To Win the Presidency, Democrats Need to Mobilize the Mexican American Vote Nationally—-As We Do in California

May 16, 2008

California Prepares to Vote: Registration Deadline is Monday for June 3 Primary

May 16, 2008

Dan Walters Apoplectic Over Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gimcracks….But the Best is Yet to Come!

May 16, 2008

Proposition 98 Threatens All Californians—Not Just Renters

May 16, 2008

Support Marriage Equality

May 16, 2008

Marriage Decision Sets Huge Precedent, But Struggle Far From Over in California

May 16, 2008

Sierra Club California: Toward A Sustainable Budget

May 16, 2008

A New Strategy to Permanently Halt Light-brown Apple Moth Spraying in California Without Consent

May 16, 2008

Education, the California Budget, and Selling Us a Bridge to Nowhere

May 15, 2008

Tonight We Celebrate the California Supreme Court Decision for Marriage Equality--Tomorrow We Fight

May 15, 2008

California Declares Marriage Equality for All-- A Watershed for Basic Fairness and Human Dignity

May 15, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger Opposes Any Move to Overturn California Supreme Court Decision on Sam Sex Marriage—Ruling Celebrated by Many

May 15, 2008

Historic California Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Constitutional Right to Gay Marriage and Strikes Down Statutes and Initiative

May 15, 2008

Governor's California May Budget Revision Makes Deeper Health Cuts

May 15, 2008

Latest Schwarzenegger Budget Plan Slashes In-Home Supportive Services Which Helps 408,000 Elderly, Blind or Disabled Californians Live Safely At Home

May 15, 2008

Schwarzenegger Again Proposes Taking from California Public Transportation—Only This Time Gas is at $4 a Gallon

May 15, 2008

The California Budget Project “Quick and Dirty” Summary of Key Provisions of the May Revision is our site of the day

May 15, 2008

What Others Are Saying About California Health Budget Cuts

May 15, 2008

Gambling With Our Future: Schwarzenegger’s Revised Budget Not Sitting Well With Anyone

May 15, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Budget Gets a Pink Slip from Californians: We Want More for Our Schools

May 15, 2008

Deconstructing the Media's Clinton-Obama Ouija Board

May 14, 2008

Perata: Democrats Reject Defeatism and Pessimism in Governor’s California Budget May Revision

May 14, 2008

As the Details of Schwarzenegger’s “May Revise” of California Budget Emerge, There are Deep Cuts That Will Hurt—Even in Education

May 14, 2008

The Blockbuster Democracy blog is our site of the day

May 14, 2008

Quick California Budget Update - May Pre-Vise

May 14, 2008

Friends of Karen Bass Pack Capitol as She Becomes Speaker of California Assembly

May 14, 2008

California Budget Shortfall Now Estimated at Over $17 Billion: Schwarzenegger to Release Budget Changes 1 P.M.

May 14, 2008

Surge of Obama Voters Wipe Out the G.O.P. in Rural Missisippi Congressional Race--What This May Mean for the Fall Campaign

May 14, 2008

Quiet before the Storm: As We Await “May Revise” of California Budget Let’s Remember Health Cuts Already Made

May 14, 2008

Schrag: California’s Initiative-industrial Complex: Prop 98 and Faux Populism

May 14, 2008

Taco Trucks and the Future of California

May 13, 2008

Schwarzenegger May Revise Preview: Borrow, Borrow, Borrow!

May 13, 2008

In Her Own Words--Karen Bass Speech as She Assumes the Speakership of the California Assembly

May 13, 2008

“What to Expect from California's New Hands-Free Law” by the Public Policy Institute of California is our site of the day

May 13, 2008

Think California Depends Too Heavily on the Rich for Income Taxes? Think Again

May 13, 2008

Ventura Comes After Vallejo? Some Thoughts on Municipal Finance in California

May 13, 2008

Clearing the Air in California’s Central Valley

May 12, 2008

Lois Wolk Receives “Golden Trout Award” for Her Conservation Leadership

May 12, 2008

The McCain Global Warming Plan: Like Bush, More of the Same--Putting Interests of Polluters over the People

May 12, 2008

Remember the Year of Health Care? Schwarzenegger’s Budget Cuts in Medi-Cal Would Increase Uninsured and Lose More in Federal Aid than it “Saves”

May 12, 2008

Republican ‘Men in Black’ Seek To Purge Voter Rolls of “Aliens”

May 12, 2008

Vallejo's Bankruptcy Highlights Need for Transparency in Government

May 12, 2008

We Cannot Afford to Let Other States Lure Away Our Best Teachers Because of Budget Shortsightedness

May 12, 2008

California Proposition 98 Will Abolish Rent Control and Have Major Impact on Accessible and Affordable Housing for People with Disabilities, Seniors & Low Income Workers

May 12, 2008

California State Water Agency Disguises Massive New Diversions in Peripheral Canal Analysis: 1982 Deja vu All Over Again

May 11, 2008

California Super Delegate Crystal Strait Declares for Obama: Why This is Significant

May 11, 2008

Celebrating Mother’s Day: Help Working Moms Pass California Paid Sick Days Law

May 11, 2008

Tony Quinn’s Analysis Makes It Clear There is No Good Reason for Democrats to Support “Reform” of Redistricting Process

May 11, 2008

As the Nation Turns Its Eyes to Race for a Limited Conversation, Some Thoughts from Alameda County

May 11, 2008

California Progress Report Receives Consumer Journalism Award

May 11, 2008

Bad News Likely Wednesday When Governor Schwarzenegger Releases Budget Changes in “May Revise”

May 10, 2008

The Runner Initiative: Running California's Economy into the Ground with Failed Correctional Policies

May 10, 2008

Salmon Fishing Closes On California’s Central Valley Rivers

May 10, 2008

National Bike Month and California Legislation Noted by Assembly Democrats

May 9, 2008

“On the Rise: Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global Warming” by Environment California is our site of the day

May 9, 2008

Cutting Children’s Health Coverage Will Only Make California’s Budget Situation Worse

May 9, 2008

Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey’s Endorsement of Mark Leno for State Senate Says a Lot on a Number of Levels

May 9, 2008

The Ballot Initiative Process in California Doesn’t Have to be Junked: It Can Be Reformed

May 9, 2008

What if California Had a Normal Government by Which It Addressed the Budget Deficit?

May 9, 2008

Sierra Club California Thanks Governor, Attorney General, and Air Resources Board for Upholding Clean Air Rules—Says to Automakers: Don't Be "Climate Chickens"

May 8, 2008

The "Year of Health Reform" in California: Take Two--Lessons for the Next Attempt

May 8, 2008

Budget Confusion in California: How Big a Gap Do You Want It to Be?

May 8, 2008

Preschool Reform Package is Alive and Well in the California Legislature

May 8, 2008

Prop 98: A Cardboard Box for Your Troubles

May 8, 2008

Planning and Conservation League Testifies on Environmental Dangers of Proposition 98, Benefits of 99 on the June Ballot

May 8, 2008

Obama and Clinton Unity Begins in California Congressional District 42 Where Democrats Have United for Ron Shepston

May 8, 2008

The Green Energy War: Will Edison’s Solar Play Trigger Be Properly Regulated by the California PUC?

May 7, 2008

Perata Calls Off Denham Recall

May 7, 2008

“How California’s School Districts Spend Their Funds” by the California Budget Project is our site of the day

May 7, 2008

Cavala: Obama Will Be the Nominee--Happy Days Are Here Again

May 7, 2008

A Tale of Two Speakers of the California Assembly

May 7, 2008

Trickle of Cuts Led to Vallejo Declaring Bankruptcy

May 7, 2008

A California Delegate on Obama's Win: The Fly on the Wall Is the Wall

May 7, 2008

A Behind the Scenes Perspective from a Democratic Club President on Stacking for Endorsements in California

May 7, 2008

Schrag: Suspending the Gas Tax—A Pander and Sucker Politics

May 7, 2008

California Democratic Council Hears from Democratic Party Chair Torres and Superdelegates

May 7, 2008

Hillary Clinton: A Warrior for Another Time

May 7, 2008

Red Light, Green Light: Legislature Says Delta Bill Not Ready

May 6, 2008

Nunez Holds Last Press Conference and Unveils Redistricting, Term Limits, and Contribution Ban Proposals

May 6, 2008

Bring California a Gas-Free Option: High Speed Rail

May 6, 2008

Lawsuit Could Leave Governor Schwarzenegger Between a Rock and a Hard Place on Prisons

May 6, 2008

Fee Increases at UC and CSU: Steps to Privatization of California’s Univerity and College System

May 6, 2008

The California Budget Goes to Court

May 6, 2008

Will States Fix the 2012 Primary Process?

May 6, 2008

California Education to Latinos: Sorry, We Forgot That You Exist!

May 6, 2008

Sierra Club California, Others Oppose Weak Green Building Rules

May 6, 2008

California Taxpayers to File Lawsuit to Prevent $12 Billion in Prison Construction Debt Payments

May 5, 2008

Bowen: Poll Workers Are On California’s Front Line of Democracy

May 5, 2008

Two Eminent Domain Measures on California June 3rd Ballot: No on 98 and Yes on 99

May 5, 2008

Automakers Jobs Moving to Canada Because of High Health Costs—Why We Need Health Care Reform in California--and What We Don’t Need

May 5, 2008

Mark Ridley-Thomas v. Bernard Parks: Running for the Most Important Office You May Know Nothing About

May 5, 2008

As Ballots Arrive in the Mail for California Primary, Don’t Get Done in by Junapathy

May 4, 2008

DNC Rules Committee Member from California Anticipates Florida and Michigan Delegates Issue to Be Resolved at May 31 Meeting

May 4, 2008

Democrats Working to Increase Participation in Democracy in California While Yacht Party is Busy Defending Tax Cuts

May 4, 2008

Here They Go Again: Senate Republicans Demand Gutting California’s Global Warming Law and Other Laws on the Books and Plan to Hold Up California Budget

May 4, 2008

McCain-Clinton Gas Tax Plan to Cost California 23,107 Jobs?

May 4, 2008

New California Online Voter Guide for June 3 Primary Debuts!

May 3, 2008

McCain: Iraq War Fought For Oil—Another Gaffe and Reason He Will Not Win California

May 3, 2008

The California Budget is Up for Grabs

May 3, 2008

A Plan to Create 21st Century Jobs in California

May 3, 2008

More on McCain’s “Health Plan” and Why It Doesn’t Add Up

May 3, 2008

California Population Tops 38 Million, Adding 490,000 in 2007 and Other Interesting Factoids

May 2, 2008

A Community Pharmacist Speaks Out: What Med-Cal Cuts Passed Earlier This Year Means to My Patients—And the State of California

May 2, 2008

The Fate of Summer School in California Under Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Budget Cutbacks

May 2, 2008

California Assembly Passes Leno’s Airline Passenger Bill of Rights--With Consumer Support-- Over Industry Opposition

May 2, 2008

A Sustainable and Affordable Water Policy for California

May 2, 2008

California House Races Roundup—One Month Before the June Primary

May 1, 2008

“State of the Air: 2008” is our site of the day

May 1, 2008

Progress in California on Air Quality Despite National No Lung Left Behind Policy

May 1, 2008

California Public Support for Taxes Declines in Context of Recession

May 1, 2008

Like Lincoln, Obama Has the “Terrible Math” of the Democratic Primary End Game With Him

May 1, 2008

Californians Very Concerned About Schools and Budget--Want Education Protected From Cuts

May 1, 2008

Understanding Republican Legislators’ Budget Proposals for California’s Schools—and What is Really Still Missing

May 1, 2008

California and Alaska Charting a New Course for the Cruise Industry

May 1, 2008

Is 24 Hour Corporate Media Deciding This Election for Us?

April 30, 2008

Making the California Democratic Council the Go-To Progressive Organization

April 30, 2008

How Exactly is a $20 Billion Deficit Good For Schwarzenegger?

April 30, 2008

The “New McCain Health Plan” Doesn’t Hold Up Under Scrutiny

April 30, 2008

Two Data Points That Will Change California Permanently

April 30, 2008

Latest Field Poll Shows Sharp Jump in Support for “Government Provided Health Care” in California

April 30, 2008

Schrag: History Tells Us California’s Future Depends on the Children of Immigrants and Their Education

April 29, 2008

“Integration Potential of California’s Immigrants and Their Children: New Estimates of Potential New Voters at the State, County, and Legislative District Levels” is our site of the day

April 29, 2008

California Health Care in Danger of Going to Hell in Hand Basket: Budget Subcommittees Consider Cuts But Hold Off—For Now

April 29, 2008

Shades of Florida: U.S. Supreme Court Votes Republican Again - Legalizes Further Impediments to Voting by the Poor

April 29, 2008

Mortgage Relief May Be on the Way Soon for Californians as State Senate Passes Legislation With Two-Thirds Vote

April 29, 2008

The Lois Wolk Interview: Land Use, Housing, Seniors, Health Insurance, and Her Legislative Accomplishments and Goals

April 29, 2008

Climate Justice in the States: Promoting Equity in Dealing with Climate Change

April 29, 2008

Biofuels: Wouldn’t We Miss 500,000 Barrels a Day?

April 28, 2008

Democratic Senators Call for Prison Plan from Schwarzenegger Administration—Inmate Population “A Bouncing Ball” Making Budget “Virtually Impossible”

April 28, 2008

Numbers Off the Charts in New California Field Poll on Health Care--Should Provide Impetus for Reforms

April 28, 2008

Public Disparages Media Mavens--Press Corps Tanks in Latest California Opinion Survey

April 28, 2008

The Lois Wolk Interview: California Assemblymember and Democratic Candidate for State Senate Shows Why She is a Winner and a Keeper

April 28, 2008

Volunteers for Obama Begin Massive Voter Registration Drive, Keep Working in California

April 28, 2008

Misunderestimating Bush on Global Warming: Contempt of Court

April 27, 2008

California Education 25 Years After “A Nation at Risk” Released

April 27, 2008

California Water Policy, and Fish

April 27, 2008

Status Report: California 2008 Bills of Interest to Health Advocates

April 27, 2008

Whose Line is it Anyway? Cramming Five Railroads Into Area Barely Big Enough for Two, a “Stretch!” in California

April 26, 2008

Families USA Report: California Will Lose 46,700 Jobs, $5.4 Billion in Business Activity Due to Bush Administration’s Medicaid Cuts

April 26, 2008

If You Agree California Consumers Should Be Able to Decide What Happens With Their Leftover Food, There’s Legislation to Support

April 26, 2008

Helping Californians Save for a Secure Retirement: Democratic Legislators Support

April 26, 2008

Think About It: The Middle Class Squeeze in California is a Result of LOW Taxes

April 26, 2008

Governors Rally Against Dirty Bush Ploy...And What's Up With Coal in California?

April 25, 2008

YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW--Open Government and Freedom of Information in California

April 25, 2008

California’s Gray Whale is In Danger

April 25, 2008

Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying Inspires Strong Gubernatorial Action and Robust Legislative Package

April 25, 2008

'Tis the Season of Membership-Stacking-for-Endorsements in California: What Does it Mean to Get the “Democratic Party Endorsement”?

April 25, 2008

In the Name of Science: Residents Discover Plan to Export Northern California Groundwater; Agency Says Pumping Just For 'Research Purposes'

April 25, 2008

The Prison State in California and the Nation

April 25, 2008

Water Rights and Water Wrongs in the Sierra Nevada

April 25, 2008

Planned Parenthood Rallies at Capitol on Budget, Initiatives, and Effects of Environmental Toxins on Reproductive Health of Californians

April 24, 2008

Lakoff : Work Will Go On After Rockridge

April 24, 2008

“California Prison Reform: Inmates, I.T, and Health Care” is our site of the day

April 24, 2008

The Right-Wing Frame on Tax Solutions and Destruction of Services Californians Depend Upon

April 24, 2008

Four Years After Workers’ Compensation Cuts Passed: California is Fourth Lowest State in Payments to Permanently Disabled Workers

April 24, 2008

At the End of a Long Week of Democracy—Letters from Students on a Senator’s Door Tells a Story

April 23, 2008

Deceptive Campaign Ads Funded by Landlords in Favor of June Ballot Prop 98 Blasted by League of Voters and AARP

April 23, 2008

Four Years After SB 899: The Insurance Industry 20 Year Plan on Workers’ Compensation in California

April 23, 2008

The Connection in California Between Sprawl and Mortgage Foreclosures

April 23, 2008

Schrag: Do We Want a University of California? State Budget Cuts are Permanently Damaging Higher Education in Our State

April 23, 2008

Obama or Clinton vs. McCain: Thank God for Howard Dean

April 22, 2008

Why Building Progressive Infrastructure Matters So Much—Especially in California at the End of the Rockridge Era

April 22, 2008

State Firearm Regulation – Opposed By the N.R.A. – Becomes the Rationale for Court Action Against San Francisco Gun Ban

April 22, 2008

“Getting California on Track: Seven Strategies to Reduce Global Warming Pollution from Transportation” is Our Site of the Day

April 22, 2008

Massive March on State Capitol as Thousands of College Students Around the State Protest Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Cuts to UC, CSU, and Community Colleges

April 22, 2008

A Fish Tale: California’s New Marine Protected Areas Not Protected from the Next Cosco Busan

April 22, 2008

Schwarzenegger in Last Action Hero 3 Showing in Sacramento on Earth Day 2008

April 22, 2008

On Earth Day and Every Day, It’s What’s “Green” That Counts!

April 21, 2008

California’s Rockridge Institute Founded by George Lakoff to Disband

April 21, 2008

California Revenues Continue to Fall - Deficit Could Swell Back to Over $14 Billion by End of 2008-09

April 21, 2008

There's No Such Thing as a Free Plastic Bag in California

April 21, 2008

Immigrant Bashing Trumps Fiscal Responsibility for California Republicans

April 21, 2008

There's No Such Thing as a Free Plastic Bag in California

April 20, 2008

Is Anyone Going to Stop the Teacher Exodus from California?

April 20, 2008

‘Due Process’ Democrats Have Their Heads Buried in the California Sand

April 20, 2008

Paid Sick Days Bill Could Raise the Bar for Working Californians

April 20, 2008

Money Drying Up for California Republicans Running for Congress

April 20, 2008

Automakers and Car Dealers Lobby Washington to Reject California Greenhouse Gas Standards

April 20, 2008

California Salmon Closure 2008 - NEVER AGAIN: Ten Actions You Need to Take Now!

April 19, 2008

Good News for California Democrats in Latest Voter Registration Figures—Pickups in Key Districts Now in Sight

April 19, 2008

Why Are G.O.P. Contributors Putting Big Money Into California Redistricting ‘Reform’ - A Love of ‘Fairness’??

April 19, 2008

Celebrating Earth Day in California by Creating Green Jobs

April 18, 2008

Tax Cuts Make Californians Poorer

April 18, 2008

Misunderestimating Bush’s Climate Prattle: Clean Coal Katrina

April 18, 2008

Karen Bass to Take Over as Speaker of California Assembly May 15th--Impact on California Budget

April 18, 2008

Phasing out PVCs in California’s Consumer Packaging to Remove Toxic Chemicals from Our Environment and Ocean

April 18, 2008

California Trout Supports New State Department of Fish and Game Director

April 17, 2008

A Few Pesky Facts That Get in the Way of the “League of Women Voters” Arguments for the Governor’s Redistricting Reform

April 17, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Broken Promises on Higher Education and a New Study on the Effects of Cuts

April 17, 2008

Winning and Losing Health Care Bills in Sacramento at the Legislative Deadline—A Busy Week

April 17, 2008

Read the Label and Conduct an Environmental Review Before Spraying Californians With Pest Control Chemicals

April 17, 2008

California Voters FIRST Presents a Balanced and Bipartisan Effort for Redistricting Reform

April 17, 2008

Disappearing California Ag Land a “Growing” Concern: “Losing the Farm” Not the Best Option

April 17, 2008

Federal Judge Tosses California Plan to Export More Delta Water

April 17, 2008

In The Wake of California Salmon Season Closure Governor Schwarzenegger Pledges Restoration Funds and Courts Weigh In

April 17, 2008

The Fraud We Face in Workers’ Compensation in California

April 16, 2008

The Budget Crisis Report Card from the California Department of Education is our site of the day

April 16, 2008

Two Key California Fish Restoration Bills Pass Assembly Committee

April 16, 2008

Those Who Want to Build a Toll Road Through a California State Park Want Feds to Overturn Coastal Commission Without a Public Hearing

April 16, 2008

State Audit Vindicates Push for California Chiropractic Board Reform

April 16, 2008

Find Solutions for California’s Overcrowded Emergency Rooms: Don’t Blame the Victims, the Uninsured

April 16, 2008

Schrag: If Only California Had Left Its Presidential Primary in June

April 16, 2008

If You’re Not Angry and Bitter, You’re Not Paying Attention

April 15, 2008

Sunday’s Historic Delegate Caucuses Proved California Democrats are Ready to Take Back the White House

April 15, 2008

California is Really Talking About a $25 Billion Deficit Now

April 15, 2008

Budget Subcommittee Rejects Schwarzenegger Proposal to Cut Medi-Cal Coverage by Paperwork

April 15, 2008

“Who Pays Taxes in California?” by the California Budget Project is our site of the day

April 15, 2008

The California Department of Insurance Discriminates Against Minority Consumers

April 15, 2008

A Barack Obama Mama’s Journey to a California Delegate Election Caucus

April 15, 2008

A Doctor Speaks on the Public Health Reasons Behind Paid Sick Days: Why California Should Pass the Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act

April 15, 2008

Politics, Art, and California’s Public Policy Failure

April 15, 2008

California in the Times of the Have-Nots and the Have Yachts

April 14, 2008

“Municipal Bond Rating Reform: Protect Taxpayers, End the Double Standard” is our site of the day

April 14, 2008

Record Number of Democrats Throughout California Pack Delegate Selection Caucuses Including 980 in Oakland for Obama

April 14, 2008

The California Budget, the Costs of a Civil Society, and Myths Republican Legislators Would Have You Believe

April 14, 2008

CALIFORNIA BUDGET CRISIS REPORT CARD: Real Impact of Budget Cuts on Schools and Students

April 14, 2008

Studies Show Diesel Pollution Bad for Just About All Parts of You; Dueling California Policies Show Potential to Help, Exacerbate Situation

April 14, 2008

Neighborhood Walk to the Polls is an Endangered Species in California

April 13, 2008

North-South Agreement: Editorials Harmonize on Water Policy Recommendation as Key Bill to be Voted on Monday

April 13, 2008

Students Aroused To Protect Public Education While Schwarzenegger Favors Private Schools

April 13, 2008

Passenger Rail Travel in California on the Wane? Ha! Time is Ripe for New Routes, More Trains

April 13, 2008

Election Bureaucrats Would Cancel Elections to Save Money if They Could!

April 13, 2008

SEIU Stalking, Harassing Nurses at Home--Is This the Face of a 'Progressive' Union?

April 13, 2008

Billion Dollar Funding Increase Fails to Improve Nursing Home Care in California

April 13, 2008

New Water Quality Rules for Dairies Compromise Human Health: Groundwater Suit Moosic To Central Valley Residents' Ears

April 12, 2008

Let’s Make Tomorrow a Date in California History: Attend Democratic Delegate Selection Caucuses

April 12, 2008

Strange Alliances on Health Transparency Bill and Why You Don’t Have Consumer Reports Without It

April 12, 2008

Sierra Watch Offers Planning Principles for Donner Development Decisions

April 11, 2008

Democrats on Committee Hold Key to Transparency and Public Participation in California Environmental Quality Act—Vote Set for Monday

April 11, 2008

Appearance of ‘Reform’ Bill Adopted By Assembly Committee

April 11, 2008

Fishery Council Closes Salmon Fishing Off California and Oregon

April 10, 2008

Storm Clouds on the Horizon for the G.O.P.

April 10, 2008

What Does “We, the People” Mean in California?

April 10, 2008

Denham Recall Drives G.O.P. Lawmakers to Accept Overdue Reforms in Signature Gathering Regulations

April 10, 2008

Insurance Reforms Pass California Senate Health Committee

April 10, 2008

The California Mortgage Crisis: Failing To Act Is Not An Option

April 9, 2008

The California Budget Crisis and Words: Don't Like "Tax Increase"? Okay - Call It a "Budget Surge"

April 9, 2008

Cavala: “Jackie Speier Gets 80% of the Vote, and I Wish I Could Take Credit”…But I Can’t”

April 9, 2008

Evil in Our Midst: Why We Must Pass California Senate Joint Resolution 19 on Torture

April 9, 2008

Foundation Being Set for Some California Health Care Reform: Consumer Protections Pass Assembly Health Committee

April 9, 2008

Schrag: California School Funding is Inadequate Any Way You Measure It

April 9, 2008

Listening to Petraeus: The Endless Bummer

April 8, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger Has Really Rattled the Cages with Proposed Cuts to California’s State Parks

April 8, 2008

California Democrats: On Sunday You Get to Pick Our Delegates to the National Convention

April 8, 2008

Senate California Budget Hearings Find: Big Medi-Cal Cuts, Big Mistake

April 8, 2008

Doing Nothing About California’s Foreclosure Crisis Does Harm

April 8, 2008

Justice for All in California?

April 8, 2008

Constitutional Amendments Banning Same Sex Marriage Predictable if It’s Spring in an Election Year in California

April 8, 2008

California Democratic Party Needs to Focus on Unifying, Not Early Endorsements--Especially in Crucial Assembly District 80

April 8, 2008

A Larger Health Lesson from UCLA: For the Rest of Us, Tabloids Are Not the Problem

April 7, 2008

It is Time to Return Democracy to California’s Budget Process

April 7, 2008

The Great Global Warming Debate: In California, Things Are Really Heating Up.

April 7, 2008

Oprah Exposes Massive Pet Overpopulation and Puppy Mills--Invigorates Supporters of California Healthy Pets Act, AB 1634

April 7, 2008

The Only Problem is: Mark Penn Did Not Leave the Clinton Campaign

April 6, 2008

Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Effort Slipping Away?

April 6, 2008

Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” Revisited: California Legislation to Promote Food Safety and Outlaw Sale of Meat from Seriously Ill Cattle

April 6, 2008

Day of Reckoning Approaches for Key Environmental Bills in California--Including Those to Prevent Lead Exposure

April 6, 2008

Who’s Opposed to Informed Choices on Health Insurance by Californians?

April 5, 2008

Demise of ‘Motor Voter’in California-- Another G.O.P. Political Crime

April 5, 2008

How Californians are Getting a Raw Deal from Washington D.C.

April 5, 2008

Grease Rustlers in California Unite!

April 5, 2008

Development in the Sierras: Is Royal Gorge Building A House Of Cards On Donner Summit?

April 4, 2008

Beyond the Mountaintop: King’s Prescription for Poverty is our site of the day

April 4, 2008

REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.-- April 4th Marks 40 Years Since His Assassination

April 4, 2008

The Need for Redistricting Reform from This California Democrat’s Perspective

April 4, 2008

The Grim Statistics of Californians Dying for Lack of Health Care Coverage

April 4, 2008

Slash and Burn: Proposed Federal Budget Would Cut Environmental Programs Under Fire by Schwarzenegger Administration

April 4, 2008

California College Students Plan Day of Action on Budget Cuts

April 4, 2008

Spring Break, CALPIRG Style

April 3, 2008

“Understanding California's School Funding Crisis: Why it's happening, what it means, and how it can be resolved” is our site of the day

April 3, 2008

Hard Hitting Ads Against Denham in California Senate Recall Election Begin Running and Ask: “Don’t We Deserve Better?”

April 3, 2008

G.O.P. Assembly Leader Proposes To Save California Public Education Cuts Without New Taxes--By Shifting School Money From Democratic To Republican School Districts

April 3, 2008

Oceans Day 2008: Meeting with California Legislators on Issues So Important to Our Coastal State

April 3, 2008

Dan Walters Needs Our Help on High Speed Rail in California

April 3, 2008

California Sues Bush EPA to Comply With Year Old Supreme Court Ruling on Regulating Greenhouse Gases

April 3, 2008

Wolk Bill Will Provide Fishing Access, Habitat Restoration in California Delta

April 3, 2008

Getting the Facts Straight on Per Pupil Spending in California

April 2, 2008

Pharmaceutical Lobby Kills California Bill to Limit Gifts by Drug Companies to Physicians

April 2, 2008

Schrag: New University of California President is First Outsider to Get Job Since 19th Century

April 2, 2008

Assemblymember Lloyd Levine and Major Environmental Groups to Schwarzenegger: Say No to Nuclear Power

April 2, 2008

Bowling with John McCain—Someone Who Doesn’t Know the Score

April 1, 2008

Now That Senator Jeff Denham’s Recall Election is Set for June 3—Some Things We Shouldn’t Forget

April 1, 2008

Gun Lobby Could Sink the Clinton Campaign

April 1, 2008

The Hidden Death Tax: The Secret Costs of Seeking Execution in California

April 1, 2008

California Democratic Convention: Who Wants to Be the Next Governor of California?

April 1, 2008

Heavily Lobbied Bill to Protect Patients from Drug Company Direct-to-Doctor Marketing Up Today in California Assembly Health Committee

April 1, 2008

Democrats Making the “Year of the Young Voter” Real in California

April 1, 2008

Schwarzenegger Aide: McCain’s Climate Plan Gets An ‘F’

April 1, 2008

Run, Mama, Run: Jackie Speier Running for Congress in Special Election Next Tuesday

March 31, 2008

California Needs to Consider Smart Biofuels Policy to Reduce Global Warming: What We Can Learn from Other States

March 31, 2008

Award to Gavin Newsom at Convention: Mentor of the Year to the California Young Democrats

March 31, 2008

The California Democratic Party Convention Video on Demand is our site of the day

March 31, 2008

Jerry Brown’s Speech, the 2010 Governor’s Race, and Reflections on the California Democratic Convention

March 31, 2008

Cesar Chavez , a Tribute

March 31, 2008

Understanding Cesar Chavez as Californians Celebrate His Memory

March 31, 2008

Revenge in Attack on Legislative Redistricting?

March 30, 2008

California Democratic Party Convention for 2008 Ends with No Endorsement in Migden-Leno Race—And a lot more

March 30, 2008

Migden-Leno Endorsement Fight May Overshadow Bill Clinton Speech at California Democratic Party Convention Today

March 30, 2008

The Bee’s Weintraub Fronts Latest G.O.P. Redistricting Plan

March 30, 2008

When Tragedy Hits Too Close To Home--82 Fatalities in California Train Collisions Last Year

March 30, 2008

United Farm Workers Launch Black Eagle Wines in Time for Cesar Chavez California Holiday

March 29, 2008

John Garamendi’s Address to the California Democratic Convention

March 29, 2008

California Democrats Making History

March 29, 2008

Democrats’ Budget Priorities Reflect California Values

March 29, 2008

How Now Wet Cat? California’s Plan to Reduce Water Use and the Connection to Global Warming

March 28, 2008

Senator Kuehl Sees "Pattern" of California State HMO Watchdog Siding With Industry Against Consumers

March 28, 2008

California Republican Party Chair Nehring Declares “War” on Senator Don Perata

March 28, 2008

Growth of the Party: For Many California Young Democrats This Will Be First Convention

March 28, 2008

School Firearms Safety in California: A Reasonable Step

March 28, 2008

Immigrant Bashing Is Not a Budget Solution for California

March 28, 2008

Convention Diary: California Democrats Convening in the Silicon Valley Today Through Sunday

March 28, 2008

Support Habitat Restoration in the California Delta

March 27, 2008

The Advocacy Opportunity of a Lifetime for an Attorney from the Bay Area--Birthplace of the Disability Rights Movement

March 27, 2008

"Hotter and Drier: The West’s Changed Climate " is our site of the day

March 27, 2008

On Reducing Zero Emission Vehicles in California, What’s Up With This?

March 27, 2008

"He's not heavy, he's our brother!" Nick Columbo and Why We Need California Health Care Reform

March 27, 2008

PPIC Poll Shows Barack Obama Much Stronger in California Against McCain Than Clinton

March 27, 2008

Assembly Republicans Introduce Anti-Immigrant Package of Bills: Isolationist and Out Of Step With California And National Public Opinion

March 27, 2008

A Progressive Candidate to Continue the Tradition of John Laird in Monterey, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz County California Assembly District 27

March 27, 2008

June Primary: Californians Rejecting Prop 98—Landlords’ Hidden Agenda Scheme—But Approving Prop 99 Eminent Domain Reform, New PPIC Poll Shows

March 27, 2008

Governor Says It Would Be "Big Mistake" To Blame Budget Deficit on Illegal Immigration

March 27, 2008

Consumer Advocates Press California for Stronger Standards and Enforcement of Health Care Industry at Senate Committee Hearing

March 26, 2008

Nuclear Power Won’t Make California the Happiest and Greenest Place on Earth

March 26, 2008

Newsom Sues California to Stop Medi-Cal Cuts

March 26, 2008

How Schwarzenegger and the G.O.P. Are Responsible for California’s Budget Mess

March 26, 2008

Record Number of Californians Running for Democratic Delegate Positions for Clinton and Obama

March 26, 2008

California’s Budget–A Time for Straight Talk on How We Got Here and Where We Should Go

March 26, 2008

Schrag: California Budget Reform Should Be Based on Democracy and Accountability, Not More Formulas

March 26, 2008

True Redemption on Iraq Mistake Requires More Than Saying You’re Sorry

March 25, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature Should Meet in an Open and Public Process on the State Budget

March 25, 2008

California’s Stem Cell Agency: Not a Private Science Club

March 25, 2008

As We Cut School Funding, Bankers Get Bailout for “Trickle Down”

March 25, 2008

Health Care in McCain's Small Universe

March 25, 2008

Insurer Fraud Is Not a Victimless Crime

March 24, 2008

Free Advice for Leon Panetta on Needed California Reform

March 24, 2008

So?

March 24, 2008

California Has Lowest Level of Fish and Game Wardens in United States and is Not Enforcing Our Laws Including Protecting Endangered Fish

March 23, 2008

Are We Willing to Risk an Increase in Tuberculosis in California to Balance Our Budget Without Raising Taxes?

March 23, 2008

Why Medical Students Believe in SB 840 by Senator Kuehl and How It Can Save California $8 Billion per Year and Guarantee Quality Comprehensive Health Care for All

March 23, 2008

California Congressional District 4: Mr. Limited Government, Tom McClintock, At the Trough Taking $306,000 of Public Money

March 22, 2008

Keeping California’s State Parks and Beaches Open and Safe from Robocuts

March 22, 2008

Loyalty Demanded of Schwarzenegger Appointees

March 21, 2008

The Differences Between Governor Schwarzenegger on the Budget and the District I Represent in the State Assembly

March 21, 2008

Legislation Protecting Families and Helping to Rehabilitate Imprisoned Youth in California to be Heard in Committee

March 21, 2008

The California Based Foundation For Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Is Now Consumer Watchdog

March 21, 2008

Richardson Endorses Obama: What This Means

March 21, 2008

Bursting the Water Bubble: California Gets Closer to Disclosing Water Reality

March 20, 2008

“Teaching Quality in California: A New Perspective to Guide Policy,” by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning is our Site of the Day

March 20, 2008

The War in Iraq - Longer Than World War II

March 20, 2008

Broad Coalition Proposes Solutions to the California Salmon Crisis

March 20, 2008

Who Is Behind the Recall of Senator Jeff Denham? 35,820 Voters in His Senate District, That’s Who

March 20, 2008

Year Six of Iraq From a California Mom: Bring Our Troops Home to Our Loving Arms

March 20, 2008

A Decade of Death with Dignity in California’s Neighboring State to the North

March 20, 2008

The Slammed Salmon Saga Continues in California

March 19, 2008

Supreme Court Throws A Curve To Political Parties – OK’s Modification Of Washington’s “Blanket Primary”

March 19, 2008

Family Values Bring Alameda Community Together to Save School Programs and Graphically Label Schwarzenegger Proposed Education Cuts as “Garbage”

March 19, 2008

Why Isn't There A Democrat Running Against Republican California Senator Abel Maldonado?

March 19, 2008

California Republican State Senator Denham Faces Recall Election--Impact on State Budget Crisis

March 19, 2008

“Green Energy War: A former California Energy Commissioner digests global climate and energy politics” is our site of the day

March 19, 2008

Schrag: Despite the Rhetoric, Education is a Low Priority for Schwarzenegger

March 19, 2008

California Can Save Billions on Our Prisons While Improving Them and Making Us Safer

March 19, 2008

Obama: Our Joshua

March 19, 2008

It’s Deadman Denham Walking—Recall Petition Qualifies—Likely Consolidation with June Primary

March 19, 2008

What’s Mine is Ore: California Groups Call For Polluters to Clean Up Their Toxic Legacy

March 18, 2008

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Awarded 2008 JFK Profile in Courage Award

March 18, 2008

Race and the Race for the White House: The Substance of Obama’s Speech

March 18, 2008

Democracy, the California Budget, and the LAO

March 18, 2008

"A More Perfect Union"—Complete Transcript of Remarks of Senator Barack Obama

March 18, 2008

Prop 98 Hidden Agenda for California June Primary Is Not So Far Beneath the Surface

March 18, 2008

It's not Just California That is Cutting Medical Benefits

March 18, 2008

California is Organized to Promote Sales and Use of the Automobile

March 17, 2008

One Los Angeles Teacher’s Response to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Education Budget Cuts

March 17, 2008

The report of the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education Excellence, “Students First, Renewing Hope for California’s Future,” is our site of the day

March 17, 2008

Avoiding Reality, Avoiding Blame on the California Budget Deficit and Our Country’s Economic Crisis

March 17, 2008

“Sunshine Week” in Sacramento Glorifies Press Corps Paparazzi Who Have The ‘Right To Know’

March 17, 2008

California is $2 Billion More In Debt as of Friday

March 17, 2008

Hitting the Bottle: Schwarzenegger Proposes Continued Borrowing from Recycling Fund to Pay for Global Warming Programs

March 17, 2008

Five Years of the Iraq War: The Winter Soldier Returns to California

March 17, 2008

One Los Angeles Teacher’s Response to the Governor’s Education Budget Cuts

March 16, 2008

Why Hasn’t Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner Ever Prosecuted a Workers Compensation Insurance Carrier for Fraud?

March 16, 2008

It’s Official: California Presidential Primary Set a Record for Turnout—Why This is Good News for State’s Democrats in November

March 16, 2008

Cavala Says: Criticism Of Legislature Misplaced While “Showtime” Governor Escapes Responsibility

March 16, 2008

California’s Effort at Comprehensive Health Care Reform Still Getting Nationwide Coverage

March 16, 2008

California Water Board Evaluates Role in Recycled Water and Delta

March 15, 2008

High Level Republican Official ‘Diverts’ G.O.P. Money. Now Qualified For Appointment To The Justice Department?

March 15, 2008

How Closing Big Oil Tax Loopholes Will Keep Class Sizes Small for California Students

March 15, 2008

California May Join Other States in Opposing the Federal Real ID Act as Privacy Battle Intensifies Nationally

March 15, 2008

How Could It Be That Most Americans Don’t Know How Many Americans Are Dying in Iraq?

March 14, 2008

Too Many Pink Slips for California Teachers We Need to Keep

March 14, 2008

Common Cause Fronts California G.O.P. Power Play - Redistricting Reform, Isn’t…

March 14, 2008

California and the Feds Fail to Explore Relationship Between Water Exports and Salmon Collapse

March 14, 2008

An AB 32 for California Water?

March 14, 2008

Regulated Health Insurance Initiative—What Prop 103 Did to Auto Insurance Rates--on California 2010 Ballot?

March 14, 2008

Support California Redistricting by Helping to Gather Signatures for November 2008 Ballot Initiative

March 14, 2008

Oil Tax Defeated, School Budget to Be Cut -- What You Can Do

March 13, 2008

David Paterson: Blind, and with Vision

March 13, 2008

High Speed Rail and Public Private Partnerships in California: A Shotgun Wedding?

March 13, 2008

California Republican Party Changes Name to The California Yacht AND Oil Party

March 13, 2008

California Smart Growth and Improving San Joaquin Valley Quality of Life

March 13, 2008

Give Arnold a Pink Slip

March 13, 2008

Steinberg Legislation Would Set Standards for Individual Health Insurance Market in California

March 13, 2008

John McCain's Health Plan - Don't Get Sick in America

March 13, 2008

Why I'm Supporting Loni Hancock for California State Senate

March 12, 2008

"Burgeoning prison populations strain state budgets” is our site of the day

March 12, 2008

San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Against California Oil Severance Tax is Wrong on Economics and Hypocritical

March 12, 2008

California Should Demand Repeal of the Federal Real ID Act

March 12, 2008

The Plan for California Health Reform—2008 and Beyond

March 12, 2008

California Should Tax Oil Like Every Other State and Use the Revenue for Education

March 12, 2008

Paroled Sex Offenders Soon To Benefit From Our California Tax Dollars?

March 12, 2008

They Impeach Democrats, Don't They?

March 11, 2008

Carbon Labels Will Arm California and U.S. Consumers in Fight Against Global Warming

March 11, 2008

Message from Over 100 School Superintendents, Parents, and Kids on Capitol Steps: Failure to Fund Education in California Budget Would Be a Failure of Our Values

March 11, 2008

Aerial Spraying for the Light Brown Apple Moth in California is Dangerous to Our Health and Unnecessary

March 11, 2008

With Oil Over $107 a Barrel California Should Lead the Charge for High-Speed Rail

March 11, 2008

Democrats Will Pick up 78th Assembly District in San Diego with Marty Block

March 11, 2008

Math Versus Spin on the Democratic Presidential Race

March 10, 2008

The Latest on Newspaper Layoffs in California, in Particular, a Health Reporter

March 10, 2008

Look, Up In the Sky: It's the Green Governor

March 10, 2008

California Needs More Urban Density

March 10, 2008

Hey, Governor: Can You Get Our Republican Congressional Delegation to Support California on Tailpipe Emissions?

March 10, 2008

California Workers’ Compensation System Fails Those Who Die in Its Grasp

March 9, 2008

Spontaneous Flashpoints Erupt on What California State Budget Cuts Mean to Local Schools

March 9, 2008

The Republican Promise: Depression, Endless War, Tax Cuts for the Rich, Despoliation of the Environment to Benefit Texas Oil Companies…Have I Missed Anything?

March 9, 2008

Californians Coming Together to Prevent Budget Cuts to Vital Services

March 9, 2008

Coalition of Commercial Fishermen, Anglers, Tribal Nations and Environmental Groups to Propose Solutions to the California Salmon Crisis

March 9, 2008

California's Dirtiest Little Secret: Peer Abuse by Kids

March 8, 2008

Home Schooling Goes the Way of the Dodo Bird While Schwarzenegger Demands “Action”

March 8, 2008

Why California Democrats are Fighting to Preserve Vital Education Spending

March 8, 2008

Crash of the Clydesdale: Fall Run Chinook Joins Plummeting Salmon Populations; Water Agencies Claim No Impact

March 8, 2008

Regime Can’t Seem to Find Qualified Americans to Staff California Republican Party

March 7, 2008

“Integrated Pest Management Practices for the Light Brown Apple Moth in New Zealand: Implications for California” is our site of the day

March 7, 2008

The McCain “Health Plan”

March 7, 2008

McCain Acknowledges Danger of Bush Endorsement

March 7, 2008

Message to Schwarzenegger—Don’t Use School Kids to Bridge Budget Gap

March 7, 2008

Wolverine Spring in California’s Central Sierra Trumps Punxsutawney Phil

March 6, 2008

A Dose of Sense: Bills Introduced to Reform Pesticide Policy Following Aerial Spraying for Light Brown Apple Moth

March 6, 2008

The Pink Slip Factor: Budget Cuts Threaten California’s Teaching Workforce

March 6, 2008

Migden Violates Campaign Finance Law She Supported and Now Sues State Political Watchdog Claiming Law is Unconstitutional

March 6, 2008

California Latino Super Delegate Remains Uncommitted

March 6, 2008

Speaking Out Against Schwarzenegger's Budget Cuts to Education

March 6, 2008

California is Robbing the Poor to Pay Thurston Howell III

March 6, 2008

High Speed Rail in California and the Nation: If Not Now, When?

March 6, 2008

A Line in the Sand -- Stop Cutting California School Budgets

March 5, 2008

A Fishy Story: Federal Fisheries Agency Blames Ocean Conditions for California Central Valley Salmon Decline

March 5, 2008

Harbinger of Budget Cuts to California Schools: Mass Student Walkout in Alameda

March 5, 2008

Cutting the Political Baby in Half: Obama and Clinton or Clinton and Obama

March 5, 2008

The California Education Budget – One Parent’s Perspective

March 5, 2008

Legislative Democrats Come Out Very Strong on the California Budget

March 5, 2008

Consumer Group Opposes California Pharmaceutical Marketing Bill as Invasion of Patient Privacy

March 5, 2008

Taking the LAO in Context on California Health Reform

March 5, 2008

Yesterday’s Primary Results: A Pyrrhic Victory for Clinton, Not a Loss for Obama

March 5, 2008

Schrag: Class at Private and Public Universities

March 5, 2008

Loyalty Oaths are SO 1950s and Don’t Belong in California

March 4, 2008

California Budget Project Fact Sheets on the Impact of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Budget Cuts on Local Communities is our site of the day

March 4, 2008

Same-Sex Couples Have Their Day in Court Today in California

March 4, 2008

Bernanke Speech Today to Bankers Underscores California’s Need to Act Quickly and Decisively on Subprime Mortgage Mess

March 4, 2008

The Mythic Role of the Legislative Analyst in Decisions on the California State Budget

March 4, 2008

Northern California Meeting on the Iraq War, the Peace Movement, and the November Presidential Election

March 4, 2008

Why Should CaliforniaTaxpayers Subsidize Private Workers’ Comp Insurance Companies?

March 4, 2008

The Games Governor Schwarzenegger Plays With Trains

March 3, 2008

Leno and Nation in Tight Race, Incumbent Migden Far Behind in June California State Senate Primary

March 3, 2008

Battle Over Massive Nestle Water Bottling Plant to Protect Mount Shasta Headwaters in Tiny Northern California Community of McCloud

March 3, 2008

Will Bill Durston Be Able to Beat Dan Lungren in California CD 3?

March 2, 2008

Why Must the California Budget Deficit Be Closed on the Backs of Teachers and Students?

March 2, 2008

Getting Young Latinos to Vote: Obama and Clinton Now in Texas

March 2, 2008

An Early St. Patrick’s Day in California: The Democrats’ Green Jobs Package

March 2, 2008

Curbing Air Pollution in the San Joaquin Valley by Greater Use of Trains

March 2, 2008

Schwarzenegger Appointee Confirmed, But Not Before Committee Rakes Him Over the Coals on Letting Health Insurers, Including Blue Cross, Set Their Own Standards

March 1, 2008

Proposed California Budget Would Hurt the Poor, Elderly and Disabled, Reduce Health Care Services, and Throw Away a Billion Dollars in Federal Funds

March 1, 2008

California Matters

March 1, 2008

Democrat Lois Wolk, Running in Hot Senate District 8, Will Need All the Help We Can Give Her in November

February 29, 2008

A Sign of The Times: L.A. Editorial Embraces New Water Philosophy

February 29, 2008

Solving California’s Dropout Crisis is our site of the day

February 29, 2008

Assisted Outpatient Treatment Can’t Wait: It’s Time to Make Laura’s Law Work in California

February 29, 2008

California Getting to Know Karen Bass, the Next Speaker of the California State Assembly

February 29, 2008

California Could Become First in Nation to Guarantee Paid Sick Days for All Workers

February 29, 2008

An Opportunity to Get Better Timely Access to Care Regulations in California

February 29, 2008

Transformational Politics Needed to Solve Our National and California Prison Problems

February 28, 2008

Karen Bass, to be Elected Speaker of the California Assembly Today, is a Solid Progressive Who Walks the Walk

February 28, 2008

Bill to Ban Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation Passes California Committee After Powerful Testimony of Milton Jones—But Not Without Opposition

February 28, 2008

California Education Budget Update

February 28, 2008

Californians Advised on Mercury Risks from Compact Fluorescent Lamp Breakage

February 27, 2008

“Willingness to Pay for Cross-Border Health Insurance between the United States and Mexico” is our site of the day

February 27, 2008

Powerful California State Senators Ask Schwarzenegger to Hold Off on Canal Plans

February 27, 2008

L.A. County Registrar Prepares to NOT Count Thousands of 'Double Bubble' Ballots from Super Tuesday's Democratic Primary

February 27, 2008

“Good Government Activists” Wrong Again in Attacking Fair Political Practices Commission Chair Ross Johnson

February 27, 2008

A “Little Story” That Speaks Volumes About California State Budget Cuts and Our Twisted Priorities

February 27, 2008

Schrag: Legislative Analyst--Governor’s California Budget Proposal Isn’t Serious

February 27, 2008

It’s California’s Turn to Protect the Flying Public by Passing the Airline Passenger Bill of Rights

February 27, 2008

My Own Private Hillary

February 27, 2008

California Super Delegate: Two More Months of Democratic Primaries? Absolutely!!

February 27, 2008

LNG and Clean Energy Laws are on a Collision Course in California

February 26, 2008

Tax ‘Expenditures’ Should Be Part of the California Budget Debate

February 26, 2008

Time to Play: You're The New York Times Editor for California!

February 26, 2008

Good News: All Los Angeles “Double Bubble” Votes from Independents in Democratic Presidential Primary to be Counted

February 26, 2008

Only 3,251 Votes Could Determine Whether Denham Is Recalled

February 26, 2008

“Killer Couches” on Toxics in California Furniture and Our Bodies is our site of the day

February 26, 2008

Immigrants, Including “Illegal Aliens” in California, Have Much Lower Crime Rate than the Rest of Us

February 26, 2008

Public Transit Needed in California and Across Nation to Fight Global Warming, Provide Transportation Equity, and for Workforce Development

February 26, 2008

Drowning California in Canals and Dams With More Bond Money

February 26, 2008

Californians Should Be Aware That Health Records Systems Expose Private Health Information

February 25, 2008

The California PUC Can Collect Millions in Fines Owed the State—Legislation Will Give Them Tools They Need

February 25, 2008

A Winning Strategy for Larry Lessig Even If He Loses in Running for Congress Here in California

February 25, 2008

The Report of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice on “Remedies for the Exonerated” is our site of the day

February 25, 2008

Contested California Democratic Primary Races in June Needed to Increase Turnout and Defeat Prop 98

February 25, 2008

Why I Am Running For County Democratic Central Committee in California

February 25, 2008

California News of the Week: Bill Deadlines, Budget Cuts, and Assembly Leadership Struggles

February 25, 2008

Paying the Piper and Calling the Tune in Placer County Politics and Planning

February 24, 2008

California Republican Party Convention Shows Signs of McCain Problems in November

February 24, 2008

California’s Has a Structural Revenue Shortfall, Not a Spending Problem

February 24, 2008

Move Over California Legislature: State Agency Proposes to Build Peripheral Canal By 2015

February 23, 2008

A Balanced Approach to Fixing California’s Budget Deficit—This Year and Beyond

February 23, 2008

Future of the Delta: Who Are the Stakeholders Schwarzenegger and Feinstein Met With Behind Closed Doors?

February 23, 2008

Sound Advice: Analysis of Schwarzenegger Proposed Budget Recommends Avoiding Cuts to Environmental Programs, Making Polluters Pay

February 22, 2008

The California Public Interest Research Group Legislative Scorecard for 2007 is our site of the day

February 22, 2008

California’s Pelosi: The Truth About Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Negotiations

February 22, 2008

A Dozen California Congressional Seats in Play—And a Call for Democrats to Run

February 22, 2008

Why Is Stanford More Successful in Opening Doors to Low-Income Students Than California’s Public Universities?

February 22, 2008

Why Trading and Offset Use Are the Wrong Way to Address Green House Gas Emissions in California

February 22, 2008

Why is Schwarzenegger Not Being Recalled?

February 21, 2008

Lessons from Two Years Without the Death Penalty in California

February 21, 2008

The California Democratic Party Needs You

February 21, 2008

“Navigating the Immigration Debate: A Guide for State & Local Policymakers and Advocates” is our site of the day

February 21, 2008

It’s Official: Republicans Fail to Steal California!

February 21, 2008

Californians Still Involved in Clinton and Obama Campaigns—But in Very Different Ways

February 21, 2008

A California Injured Worker Asks: What’s Wrong with Banning Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation?

February 21, 2008

Choosing to Be Inspired in Red Orange County--A Candidate's Wife and a Grassroots Campaign

February 20, 2008

Hundreds of Disabled and Seniors at Capitol to Protest California Budget Cuts to Life Sustaining Services and Income

February 20, 2008

The ‘West Sacramento’ Bee

February 20, 2008

The California Legislative Analyst's Office: “Analysis of the 2008-09 Budget Bill and the 2008-09 Budget” is our site of the day

February 20, 2008

Single Payer: Californians, It's Time to Have Hope

February 20, 2008

Obama--Maybe More Than the Frontrunner

February 20, 2008

Schrag: Berkeley and the Marines

February 20, 2008

Not Proud of the Last Eight Years

February 19, 2008

Schwarzenegger Rhetoric Today on Budget Doesn’t Match Reality Including Republican Assembly Vote Against Closing Yacht Tax Loophole

February 19, 2008

UC Continues to Act in Secrecy, Doing Research on Youth Smoking for the Tobacco Industry

February 19, 2008

Dos and Don’ts of Coping with State Budget Crises: California is Not Alone

February 19, 2008

Framing the California Budget Crisis as the Product of Locked-in Spending

February 19, 2008

California Legislative Republicans Slammed on Yacht Tax “Sloophole”—Another Vote in Assembly Today

February 19, 2008

Progressives Should Not be Mad Bandits

February 19, 2008

Two Contenders for California Assembly Speaker Hail from Same LA Democratic Club

February 18, 2008

A Superdelegate Primer

February 18, 2008

Why the Democratic Presidential Nominee Will Win California Big over McCain: The Environment as Just One Example

February 18, 2008

The Drive for a Two-Thirds Democratic Majority in the California Legislature and the Role of the State Democratic Party

February 18, 2008

Bye-Bye Nominating Caucuses: An Opportunity for Western DNC Members to Lead

February 18, 2008

California State Water Board to Consider Bold Action on Global Warming

February 17, 2008

Republican Party to Stiff $3,000,000Contributor? Will Financial Bankruptcy Follow G.O.P.’S Moral Bankruptcy?

February 17, 2008

“The Jungle” 2008--E. Coli in Beef Will Be Investigated by California Senate Committee

February 17, 2008

Perata’s Passionate Floor Speech on California Mid-year Budget Cuts

February 17, 2008

“Who’s On First”? Bush Administration Takes Every Side In Second Amendment Gun Control Case

February 17, 2008

California "Food Miles" Cannot Be Discussed in Isolation from Land Use Policies

February 16, 2008

Democratic Convention Super Delegate From California Discusses Public Focus and Google Maps

February 16, 2008

Why All Californians Should Support Marriage Equality During the Week We Celebrate Valentine’s Day

February 16, 2008

Historic Speech by Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon to a Joint Session of the California Legislature

February 16, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger Must Follow Through on Call to Ban Blue Cross From Using Doctors as Double-Agents to Dump Sick Patients

February 15, 2008

Failure to Repeal California Yacht Tax Loophole Mars Otherwise Bipartisan Day Dealing with California’s Budget Crisis

February 15, 2008

The California Budget Crisis Hit Home Today

February 15, 2008

The List of Names: California Super Delegates to the 2008 National Democratic Convention

February 15, 2008

Solving California's Prison Crisis: A Ballot Initiative Coming to a Grocery Store Near You

February 15, 2008

California’s Foreclosure Crisis and the State Legislature: Getting Us Out of a Subprime Mess

February 15, 2008

Conventional Wisdom and Political Suicide in California: Why Our Problems are not Solved

February 15, 2008

California Chamber of Commerce Proposes Another Bad Water Bond--And What You Can Do About It

February 14, 2008

Bipartisanship Breaks Out on California Budget: Bills to Pass Tomorrow on This Year’s Deficit

February 14, 2008

“Locked Out 2008: The Housing Boom and Beyond,” released today by the California Budget Project, is our site of the day

February 14, 2008

Big Bite Out of California’s Health System Passed by Senate Budget Committee

February 14, 2008

Blue Cross Backs Down - And What the California Legislature Can Do Now

February 14, 2008

That was Quick—What Blue Cross’ Reversal Means to Californians

February 14, 2008

Marriage Equality in California: Four Years Later

February 14, 2008

Obama, Donna Edwards, and Coattails for Peace

February 13, 2008

Who’s Going to Clean Up This Mortgage Mess in California?

February 13, 2008

Time for California to Ban Race, Gender and Age Discrimination in Workers’ Compensation Benefits

February 13, 2008

Nunez Says Comprehensive Health Care Reform Dead in California This Year: A Deeper Look at What This Means

February 13, 2008

California Must Be Ever Vigilant to Keep Choice Available to All Women

February 13, 2008

The David Shuster Lesson: The Latest in Tasteless Anti-Clinton Remarks in the Media

February 13, 2008

Schrag: Immigration and the Presidential Campaign of 2008

February 13, 2008

Unlicensed, Unregulated Animal Breeders Are Seeking to Protect Their Profits by Defeating AB 1634

February 12, 2008

A California Super Delegate Asks—How Should We Come to a Decision?

February 12, 2008

Fiona Ma Makes an Interesting Case for Why She Should be Speaker of the California Assembly

February 12, 2008

Three-way Dem Primary for California15th Assembly District Seat--Evidence It is Turning Blue

February 12, 2008

About Those 94,000 Votes Missing in L.A. County’s Democratic Presidential Primary Totals

February 11, 2008

The California Republican Party--Insolvent Financially and Bankrupt with California Voters

February 11, 2008

Reflections of a First Amendment Conservative

February 11, 2008

Last Week’s California Election: National, State, and Local

February 11, 2008

Wrong Diagnosis in Autopsy on California Health Reform

February 11, 2008

Democrats Have a Feast of Riches in Presidential Choices

February 10, 2008

With Courage and Commonsense, California Doesn’t Have to Balance the Budget with a Meat-Axe Wielded at Children and the Vulnerable

February 10, 2008

An Estimated 1.5 Million California Presidential Primary Votes Remain to be Counted

February 10, 2008

The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics

February 10, 2008

Local Votes in California Should Carry Weight on More Indian Casinos

February 10, 2008

Another Super Tuesday Winner--Warren Furutani, Sworn in as New Assemblymember, Will Be an Active Legislator

February 9, 2008

Obama Oakland Headquarters Still Abuzz With Phone Calls to Other Primary and Caucus States

February 9, 2008

9 Million California Voters Were Winners in Tuesday’s Record Primary Vote

February 9, 2008

Complete Remarks of Fabian Nunez in Announcing Assembly Democratic Caucus Decision Keeping Him as Speaker and Election Next Month of Successor for Next Session

February 8, 2008

California Fails to Set Strong Standards on Timely Access to Care

February 8, 2008

June 3, 2008 California Primary Will Be Very Important for the Environment

February 8, 2008

Darrell Steinberg to be New Head of State Senate at End of Session: Perata to Stay at Helm During Rocky Times This Year With California Budget

February 8, 2008

The New Bailout: Individual Health Insurance Mandates and Greater Personal Debt

February 8, 2008

There’s No Such Thing as Zero-Risk Health Reform, Not Even in California

February 8, 2008

If the California State Legislature Was Taken Over By Journalists…

February 7, 2008

California Chamber of Commerce $11.69 Billion Water Bond Poised to Sink Progress and Ignite New Water Wars

February 7, 2008

Hold the Presses: Steinberg to Replace Perata as Senate Leader at End of Session; Nunez to Remain Assembly Speaker

February 7, 2008

Changing the face of HIV/AIDS

February 7, 2008

Youth Vote up to 16% in California Presidential Primary—State’s Young Democrats Energized and Already Working on June Election

February 7, 2008

Palace Intrigue in Sacramento in the Wake of Prop 93 Defeat

February 7, 2008

California Coastal Commission Rejects Toll Road: Shows a People-Powered Coalition Can be Effective on Transportation and Land Use Issues

February 7, 2008

Book Review: From the Barrio to Washington (Via Sacramento)

February 7, 2008

Royal Gorge to be Gouged? The Politics of Development on Donner Summit

February 7, 2008

As Health Bill Dies, California Activists Turn to Single Payer Bill

February 6, 2008

The Unprocessed Ballot Page of the California Secretary of State is our site of the day

February 6, 2008

The Other California Election: Defeat of Prop 93 Term Limits has Major Impact on Democratic Legislative Leaders, Budget, Seniors and the Disabled

February 6, 2008

Clinton Win in California Larger Than Polls Predicted Because of Huge Latino Turnout

February 6, 2008

Preliminary Congressional District Analysis Shows Clinton May End Up With Fewer California Delegates Than Some May Think

February 6, 2008

Analysis of California Democratic Presidential Primary Vote—While Waiting for Late Vote By Mail Ballots

February 6, 2008

California Ballot Props: Term Limits Change and Community College Funding Defeated; Tribal Gaming Approved

February 6, 2008

Only 128 Days to June California Primary—With At Least 34 Open Legislative Seats in Wake of Term Limit Change Defeat

February 6, 2008

Trends Point to Passage of California Tribal Gaming, But Defeat of Other Ballot Propositions Including Term Limit Changes

February 5, 2008

St. Agatha, Patron Saint of Super Tuesday for Democrats

February 5, 2008

Clinton Wins California Presidential Primary—According to Projections

February 5, 2008

Vote Results from California May Be Delayed Until Alameda County Precincts--Where Ballots Ran Out--Can Vote

February 5, 2008

How to Watch and Interpret Election Returns From California’s Presidential Primary

February 5, 2008

Record Turnout Expected in Today’s California Presidential Primary

February 5, 2008

Schrag: How We Choose a President

February 5, 2008

California Senate Hearing Considers $1.6 Billion in Proposed Health Budget Cuts

February 4, 2008

Another Member of California State Senate Leadership--Leland Yee--Endorses Obama for President

February 4, 2008

Independent Voters Need to Be Aware of Their Right to Vote in California’s Democratic Presidential Primary

February 4, 2008

Unite, Inspire, Transform: Why We Support Barack Obama

February 4, 2008

Field Poll: Prop 93 on Term Limits Losing Badly as California Voters Approach the Plate

February 4, 2008

California Field Poll Shows—Tribal Gaming Props 94-97 Ahead

February 4, 2008

Undecided Until a Week Ago: Why Tomorrow This Californian is Voting For Barack Obama

February 3, 2008

Sunday Before the California Primary: Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Caroline Kennedy, Stevie Wonder, and Maria Shriver at UCLA

February 3, 2008

How to Vote in the California Democratic Primary for President as an Independent or a Democrat

February 3, 2008

Analysis of California Field Poll Showing Clinton-Obama Too Close to Call in Nation’s Biggest State

February 3, 2008

Voter Guides and Articles on All California Ballot Propositions

February 3, 2008

Major Obama Surge in California: Just Released Field Poll Has It Too Close to Call

February 3, 2008

Ranked Voting in Presidential Primaries

February 2, 2008

Secretary of State Bowen Encourages All Californians to Vote and Provides Information on Process

February 2, 2008

Prop 92: The Right Choice for California

February 1, 2008

LA Times Endorses Obama and Ted Kennedy Gives Him a Boost in California

February 1, 2008

California Democrats Widen Registration Edge Over Republicans, But Big Gain is in Decline-to-State Voters

February 1, 2008

California Eyes on the Election—But This Was an Important Week for State Policies and the Legislature

February 1, 2008

Hillary Clinton and Iraq: Why This is Important

February 1, 2008

Uncollected Taxes: The Real California Budget Deficit

February 1, 2008

Transcript of Debate: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Los Angeles, January 31, 2008

January 31, 2008

California EPA’s Green Chemistry Initiative Can Protect us from Toxics if it Survives Lobbying by Industry

January 31, 2008

Seismic Shakes From California as Obama Closes in on Clinton

January 31, 2008

When the Fish Are Gone Will California Build a Peripheral Canal?

January 31, 2008

Schwarzenegger Tries to Figure Out Next Steps on California Health Care

January 31, 2008

Why Californians Who Care About the Environment Support Proposition 93

January 30, 2008

The California Voter Foundation February 2008 Presidential Primary Election Guide is our site of the day

January 30, 2008

Willie Brown’s “Basic Brown” Should Be Read By All Those Contemplating Legislative Leadership

January 30, 2008

Breaking News: John Edwards Withdrawing From Presidential Race—His Supporters May Decide California Primary Election if Close

January 30, 2008

Bob Mulholland Answers Questions: California’s February 5 Presidential Primary and Delegates

January 30, 2008

Schrag: California Here They Come: My Take on the Leading Democrats and Republicans Running for President

January 30, 2008

Don’t Forget the Casino Workers in Voting on California Propositions 94-97

January 30, 2008

How Emissions Trading Can Help All Communities in California and Fight Global Warming

January 30, 2008

Unprecedented Collapse of California Central Valley Salmon Alarms Fishery Managers

January 29, 2008

Edwards Fans in California: Time to Get Serious about Obama

January 29, 2008

Can Californians Reason Together on Where We Go From Here on Health Care Reform?

January 29, 2008

Let’s Avoid Serious Mistakes in the Next California Healthcare Reform Bill

January 29, 2008

More Reactions and Statements About Defeat of California Health Care Reform Bill

January 29, 2008

Overcoming California's Unique Health Reform Hurdles

January 29, 2008

Bush State of Union Speech Underscores Need for California and Other States to Act on Global Warming and Clean Energy

January 28, 2008

California Health Care Reform Bill of Speaker Nunez and Governor Schwarzenegger Dies in Committee

January 28, 2008

Senate Leader Perata Does Not Support California Health Care Reform Bill

January 28, 2008

Most Important Story of Day Involves Feinstein’s Action on Senate Floor on Wiretapping and FISA

January 28, 2008

It’s California’s Turn to Elect a President Like John Kennedy

January 28, 2008

New Analysis Provides Assurances on California Health Reform to be Voted on This Afternoon

January 28, 2008

Time for a Gut Check on Health Reform Bill in California State Senate

January 28, 2008

California Ballot Propositions 91 and 92: The Perspective of a Teacher and Former Legislator

January 27, 2008

California—Largest Prize--is Ground Zero in Race for Democratic Nomination for President

January 27, 2008

Bill Magavern's 2008 California Ballot Rx

January 27, 2008

Review of “Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times” by Former Assembly Speaker Willie L. Brown

January 26, 2008

Text and Video of Barack Obama’s Victory Speech in South Carolina

January 26, 2008

California Legislation Expanding Preventative Cancer Screenings for Women Will Save Lives

January 25, 2008

It’s the Economy, Budget, Education, and Health Care That Matter to Californians About Their State Government

January 25, 2008

New PPIC Poll Shows Clinton Leading Obama 43-28 in California; Pollster Says Race not Settled

January 25, 2008

Democrats Should Stop Squabbling Over Healthcare Mandates

January 25, 2008

PPIC Poll Finds California Voters Evenly Divided on Prop 93—Term Limits Reform—42 to 42%

January 25, 2008

Beware of Harmful Rent Control Rollback and Anti-Environment Measure on the California June Ballot

January 25, 2008

California Senate Votes for Clean Air in Rejecting Schwarzenegger Appointee

January 25, 2008

California Field Poll to Bloomberg: Don’t Run for President Expecting to Win This State

January 24, 2008

Historic California Health Reform Legislation Heard in Senate Committee

January 24, 2008

Real Action We Can Take on California’s Subprime Mortgage Crisis

January 24, 2008

California Prison Health Morass Now in the Hands of a New Receiver Appointed by Federal Court Judge

January 24, 2008

New California Field Poll Shows Term Limits and Tribal Slot Machines Expansion Initiatives “Too Close to Call”

January 24, 2008

Who Wants to Camp Under a Toll Road? A Bad Idea for California’s Parks

January 23, 2008

California Health Coverage Bill Vote Delayed Until Monday

January 23, 2008

CALPIRG to Governor Schwarzenegger: Reform the Lending Industry

January 23, 2008

The LAO Report on the California Health Care Reform Plan is our site of the day

January 23, 2008

Historic California Health Reform Gets Hearing Today

January 23, 2008

Schrag: Disappointment in Governor’s “Year of Education” Are Not Just in Lack of Funding

January 23, 2008

The California Minimum Wage in 2008—Not Enough to Keep Up With Inflation

January 23, 2008

Overturn California Indian Gaming Compacts With a No vote on Props 94 to 97

January 23, 2008

Opposition to California Healthcare Bill Grows

January 22, 2008

LAO Report on California Health Coverage Bill and Ballot Measure—The Risks of Action and Inaction

January 22, 2008

California Health Coverage Bill May Be Dead for the Year

January 22, 2008

LA Area Legislators Hold Keys to Success on Global Warming Bill in California Assembly Floor Vote!

January 22, 2008

California Field Poll Shows Clinton Ahead of Obama 39% to 27% in State

January 22, 2008

Protecting our Children: California and Other States Take Action Against Toxic Toys

January 22, 2008

Proposition 92: Community College Funding and Fees – NO

January 21, 2008

Barack Obama’s Speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Day

January 21, 2008

The Education of Arnold Schwarzenegger

January 21, 2008

Leaping Steelhead, Delta Conservation Awards For 2007—A Tough Year for Californians Who Fish

January 20, 2008

Reformer Says Prop 93 Needed to Give California a Tool to Solve Problems

January 20, 2008

Speak Out California’s 2008 Primary Election Voter Guide

January 20, 2008

Redundant “Waiting Period” in California for Acquisition of Second Firearm Makes No Sense

January 20, 2008

A Look at the Numbers: What the Early Caucuses and Primaries Mean in the Democratic Presidential Race and Why the California Primary Matters

January 19, 2008

California Legislators Honor Martin Luther King

January 18, 2008

Breaking News: California Common Cause Endorses a “Yes” Vote on Prop 93—Term Limits Reform

January 18, 2008

Cuts in California Residential Care Facility Inspections a Clear and Present Danger to Elders

January 18, 2008

“A California Challenge: Flooding in the Central Valley” is our site of the day

January 18, 2008

Why the California League of Conservation Voters Supports Prop 93—Term Limits Reform

January 18, 2008

Urgent Foreclosure Legislation Passes California Senate Judiciary Committee

January 17, 2008

The Behind the Scene Struggle of California and Other States with the EPA’s Air Standards

January 17, 2008

New Survey Shows California’s Political Parties Are Doing Their Job

January 17, 2008

Is California Still Blue With the Rise of the Independent Voter—and Will They Be Pivotal in the Democratic Primary for President?

January 17, 2008

How California Delegates Are Selected for the 2008 Democratic National Convention

January 17, 2008

Go to the Original Sources on California Health Reform Bill: 1-Stop Shopping on ABx1 1

January 16, 2008

I’m Voting Yes on Prop 93 So California Legislators Can Focus on Their Jobs

January 16, 2008

The Institute of Governmental Studies Library Guide on California Ballot Propositions is our site of the day

January 16, 2008

Schrag: Schwarzenegger, FDR, and the Wolf at the Door

January 16, 2008

Hillary's Victory—The First Time A Woman Has Won a Presidential Primary

January 16, 2008

Why I Support John Edwards

January 16, 2008

To Obama and Clinton: Sheathe Your Swords, We’re About to Make History

January 15, 2008

New Analysis: Pending California Health Reform Would Go Well Beyond Massachusetts Measure

January 15, 2008

A California Budget “Shock Attack”

January 15, 2008

California Legislative Analyst: State Budget Woes as Bad as Governor Says—But There Are Better Way to Solve Problem

January 15, 2008

Bill to End California Sentencing of Minors to Life Without Possibility of Parole Receives Boost from New Report

January 15, 2008

Jackie Speier’s Announcement Speech as Democratic Candidate for California 12th Congressional District

January 14, 2008

Interesting California Political and Policy Tidbits for the Evening

January 14, 2008

“Accelerated Release: A Literature Review” by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency is our site of the day

January 14, 2008

Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama for President

January 14, 2008

Reforming Our Prisons in 2008: Can California Get Rational Sentencing and Parole Reforms in the Crucible of the Budget Crisis?

January 13, 2008

An Open Letter to California Single Payer Advocates Who Oppose ABX1 1

January 13, 2008

Bee Editorial Endorses Bad Government Out of Petulance

January 13, 2008

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

January 13, 2008

Democratic Candidates for President: California Campaign Offices and Contact Information

January 12, 2008

Perata: Governor’s Proposed Budget Begs Question—What Kind of State do We Want?

January 12, 2008

California Democratic Radio Address Discusses the Repercussions of the Governor’s Budget Proposal

January 12, 2008

California Assembly Committee Supports Recognition of Winnemem Wintu Tribe

January 12, 2008

Anglers Rally for Political Action To Save California Fisheries

January 11, 2008

The Dirty Details on the California Budget: Health Cuts Would Impact Millions

January 11, 2008

Californians Need to Be Aware of Immediate Budget Cuts Proposed—There Are Some Real Shockers Here

January 11, 2008

“Governor Releases Proposed 2008-2009 Budget” from the California Budget Project is our site of the day

January 11, 2008

Why California Students are Drawn to Barack Obama and Why It Will Make a Difference

January 11, 2008

Garamendi: Governor's 2008 - 09 Budget Does Not Meet Needs of California

January 10, 2008

California Schools Chief Says Schwarzenegger Budget Will Lead to “Year of Education Evisceration”

January 10, 2008

Schwarzenegger Cuts Funding for Elderly, Blind, and Disabled Californians in Proposed State Budget

January 10, 2008

Proposition 93: Rejiggering Legislative Term Limits – YES

January 10, 2008

California Legislators Honor Martin Luther King

January 10, 2008

Execute Justice: The Time Has Come to End California's Death Penalty

January 10, 2008

Before the California Budget Battles Begin

January 10, 2008

How Would Jesus Vote? An Interview With the Author of The Tumultuous Times of Jesus in the 21st Century

January 9, 2008

The “Bradley Effect” on Obama-Clinton Polling in New Hampshire May Be Overstated

January 9, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Spending Cap is Pure Bunkum – But It Gave the Press Corps Something to Write About in Otherwise Vacuous ‘State of the State’

January 9, 2008

The Myths, Rhetoric, and Reality in Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Speech This Year

January 9, 2008

Schrag: Prop 92 Shortchanges California Community Colleges

January 9, 2008

Schwarzenegger State of the State Address Misses Environmental Opportunities

January 9, 2008

Schwarzenegger Uses Address to Push for Fiscally Irresponsible Peripheral Canal, Dams, and Water Bond Proposal

January 9, 2008

The Seismic Shift: Clinton and Obama in New Hampshire

January 9, 2008

Arnold's Year of Education: Defunding Students Who Need It Most

January 9, 2008

Complete Text of Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2008 State of the State Address, as Prepared

January 8, 2008

California Has Its Work Cut Out on “Subprime” Health Insurance

January 8, 2008

The Final California Delta Vision Document and Water For Fish Efforts

January 8, 2008

The California Budget, Bankruptcy, Clinton, and Obama

January 8, 2008

One Californian’s Primary Season Crankiness

January 8, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s Year of Education: Taking It Out on Teachers

January 8, 2008

Proposition 91: Made Superfluous by Prop 1A of 2006 – ABSTAIN

January 7, 2008

Schwarzenegger’s “Year of Education”: Missing The Point at the Outset

January 7, 2008

Vote-By-Mail Begins Today in California Presidential Primary

January 7, 2008

California Propositions 94–97: Indian Gaming Compacts – NO

January 7, 2008

Robo-Cuts: California’s Budget and Health Care Intertwined

January 6, 2008

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

January 6, 2008

Tim Johnson of ABC News Won the Republican Presidential Debate on Healthcare Last Night

January 6, 2008

Tribal Gaming Money Dwarfs All Other Contributions on California Ballot Propositions

January 6, 2008

2008 Starts Off With Many Programs on California and the Environment

January 5, 2008

Obama Victory Sends Resounding Message of Change

January 5, 2008

California Needs More Vigilance on Hate Crimes Against LGBT Individuals

January 5, 2008

Libertarian Party—Like the Prohibition Party--Demands Free Promotion of Candidates in California

January 4, 2008

Obama Grass Roots California Supporters Buoyed by Iowa Win

January 4, 2008

California’s Nurse-Patient Ratio Law Saving Lives, Reducing the Nursing Shortage

January 4, 2008

A New Year Bring New Efforts In California Health Reform

January 4, 2008

Iowa This Morning: America's Face to the World

January 3, 2008

The “2008 California Report Card: The State of the State's Children” is our site of the day

January 3, 2008

A Novel Idea: States Sue Environmental Protection Agency to Actually Protect Environment

January 3, 2008

States Call for Moratorium on Home Foreclosures

January 3, 2008

California’s New Frontier and the Election of the President 2008

January 3, 2008

Peter Schrag Calls Prop 93 “Slippery Too”--Damming With Faint Praise Personified

January 3, 2008

Health Care Reform in California and the Nation: “All in, for 2008”

January 3, 2008

The Black Vote for President in 2008

January 3, 2008

Holiday Schedule and Resolutions for the California Progress Report

January 2, 2008

Peter Schrag: Maybe the Problem in California is Us--Limiting Legislative Discretion and Accountability—Prop 93, a Case in Point

January 1, 2008

2007 California Victories and 2008 Priorities from the Coalition for Clean Air

December 31, 2007

The California Home Foreclosure Crisis Needs Action in 2008

December 30, 2007

How to Become a California Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention

December 29, 2007

What a 10% Cut Means to Health Care in California

December 28, 2007

Prop 93 (Term Limits Change) Keeps Lead in Field Poll—(Props 94-97) Expansion of Indian Slot Machines Close

December 28, 2007

California Prison Reform and the Progressive challenge for 2008

December 28, 2007

The Post-Election Agenda By John L. Burton

December 28, 2007

Year End Brings Reprieve for California Delta, Hopeful Vision for the Future

December 27, 2007

Speak Out California Farewell 2007... Welcome 2008!

December 27, 2007

Rejection of California Clean Car Waiver Request Earns Bush Coal, Oil, Natural Gas for Christmas

December 26, 2007

The 2008 California Online Voter Guide by the California Voter Foundation is our site of the day

December 26, 2007

Schrag: Republicans Play the Immigration Card in Presidential Politics

December 26, 2007

California Patients ‘Dumped’ May Now Appeal to Juries Who May Impose “Punitive” Damages to Halt These Practices in the Future

December 26, 2007

California Delta: Assemblymember Wolk Demands Answers from Federal and State Agencies at Prospect Island Fish Kill Hearing

December 25, 2007

It’s a Wonderful Life, but Mr. Potter is Winning

December 24, 2007

A Californian to the Candidates: Leave Christmas ALONE

December 23, 2007

California Health Care Reform Legislation a Framework for Real, Positive Change

December 22, 2007

Bush in California at Lowest in Job Rating, Iraq, and Handling of Economy

December 22, 2007

Democratic Holiday Radio Address Touches on Health Care and Budget

December 21, 2007

Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez On the Assembly Passed Health Care Reform Bill

December 21, 2007

Nearly 3-1 Support for Health Care Reform Passed by Assembly in New California Field Poll

December 21, 2007

California Labor Federation Votes to Support Health Reform Bill With Amendments

December 21, 2007

“Tough on Crime” Republicans Propose Release of 22,000 Felons….Free To Kill Again?

December 21, 2007

Cable Micro Targeting Presidential Primary in California and Earlier States

December 21, 2007

California Health Care Reform, as Seen from Progressive States Network

December 20, 2007

The California Budget Project’s “Quick and Dirty” Summary of the Health Bill Recently Passed by the Assembly is our site of the day

December 20, 2007

Linking California Air Pollution to Illness and Death--And Those Who Support Changes

December 20, 2007

California Strongly Democratic in Presidential Race—Clinton or Obama Beat Leading Republicans by Landslide Margins Per Field Poll

December 19, 2007

Attorney General Brown and Governor Schwarzenegger to Sue Federal EPA Over Refusal to Allow California to Impose Greenhouse Gas Emission Limits on Vehicles

December 19, 2007

Clinton Can No Longer Count on California Win in Primary as Race Narrows According to Field Poll

December 19, 2007

Perata: Getting the Facts on Healthcare Reform

December 19, 2007

California is Fighting an "Emergency" With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs

December 19, 2007

Schrag: Books on California for the Holidays

December 18, 2007

California Must Take Strong Action in Face of Failure of Federal Reserve to Enact Meaningful Reform on Home Foreclosures

December 18, 2007

The Speaker's and Governor's Healthcare Bill: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

December 18, 2007

‘Capitol Weekly’s “Big Daddy” Revealed to be Ann Landers

December 18, 2007

Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2007 is our site of the day

December 18, 2007

Legal Efforts to Increase Working Class Voting Rates “Assailed” by an Overly Fastidious Press Corps--and the “Usually Reliable Sources”

December 18, 2007

Raucus Celebration in Rotunda of Capitol in Sacramento Brings Broad Coalition to Support Health Care Reform

December 18, 2007

California Assembly Passes Historic Health Expansion and Reform Proposal

December 17, 2007

Health Reform in California is Like Threading a Camel Through the Eye of a Needle

December 17, 2007

Time to Pull the Plug on the Flawed California Health Care Deal

December 17, 2007

On Filling Sieves With Water: Prop. 92 and the Value of Public Education

December 16, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

December 16, 2007

Rose Institute’s “Hall Of Shame” is Bogus Effort to Trick the Unknowledgeable Media on Redistricting

December 16, 2007

More Details on Health Care Bill and Amendments California Assembly Will Vote on Tomorrow

December 16, 2007

Should the Government Have Authority to Determine What a Campaign Spends Money On?

December 15, 2007

Fallout from the Subprime Mortgage Mess in California and What We Must Do

December 15, 2007

Who Supported Workers in the California Legislature in 2007

December 15, 2007

Bay-Delta Ecosystem on Verge of Collapse--Judge Issues Final Order to Protect Delta Smelt

December 14, 2007

New Amendments to California Health Reform Released

December 14, 2007

Thoughts on the California Budget Mess and Other Issues While Holiday Shopping

December 14, 2007

California Health Care Deal: So Close and Yet So Far

December 14, 2007

California Cannot Afford the Budget Busting and Environmentally Destructive Water Bonds Proposed by the Chamber of Commerce

December 13, 2007

A Legal Licking, Nobel Gesture, and a Planet Melting Faster Than Expected: Hot Week for Global Warming

December 13, 2007

"Privatizing in the Dark: The Pitfalls of Privatization & Why Budget Disclosure is Needed" is our site of the day

December 13, 2007

Individual Mandates on Health Care: The National Debate and California

December 13, 2007

Furutani Victory in California Assembly Race a Big Step in Preserving Majority Support for Marriage Equality in Legislature

December 13, 2007

PPIC Survey: Clinton, Giuliani Ahead in California, Pessimism on Economy and Direction of State, Uptick in Approval of Governor and Legislature, and Term Limits Change Still Ahead

December 13, 2007

Entire Pro-Blackwater Slate Loses Election in San Diego--Big Win for Grassroots

December 12, 2007

Every Move of California Legislators Motivated by Term Limits Reform? Where's the Proof?

December 12, 2007

Right Now, Consumer Attorneys May Be the Best Hope for Californians Stuck in Predatory Loans

December 12, 2007

Democrat Furutani Narrowly Misses Election Outright to California State Assembly--Will Prevail on February 5 Presidential Primary Ballot

December 12, 2007

Schrag: Do California Voters Want a Dysfunctional Government?

December 12, 2007

Levee Repair in California Delta Leads to Massive Fish Kill and Criminal Investigation

December 11, 2007

Enforcing California's Gun Laws: Once Again Jerry Brown Shows Why He Was Elected Attorney General with Strong Law Enforcement Support

December 11, 2007

On the Fight for Human Rights for Our Kids, Why Isn’t California Leading the Nation?

December 10, 2007

The Once and Future King of California?

December 10, 2007

Governor Poizner’s Interest in Redistricting Not the Same as Governor Schwarzenegger

December 10, 2007

California’s Presidential Primary Has 53 Separate Congressional District Races for Delegates—You Can Make a Difference

December 9, 2007

California Progress Report Steps Up Coverage of Presidential Campaign as February Primary is Closer Than You Think

December 9, 2007

Schwarzenegger Redistricting Plan Could Cost Democrats Six Assembly Seats and Two in the Senate

December 9, 2007

Ballot Initiatives, the California Hall of Fame, and News of the Week from the State Capitol

December 9, 2007

Three Steps to a Better America: What Californians Can Do

December 9, 2007

Mitt Romney is No Jack Kennedy on Religion: Consider the Historical Record

December 9, 2007

Warning Signs That Parts of California Face Danger From Tsunamis

December 8, 2007

Protecting San Francisco Bay From Future Oil Spills

December 8, 2007

Billion in Bonds for Dumb Dams: California Chamber of Commerce Threatens Water Bond Initiative

December 7, 2007

California Apartment Managers Should Have Duty to Report Child Abuse

December 7, 2007

Tribes Must Halt All Efforts to Add Illegal Slots in California

December 7, 2007

Protect Our State Budget, Protect Taxpayers, and Protect Vital State Services By Voting Yes On Props 94, 95, 96 And 97

December 7, 2007

A California Initiative Process Turned on Its Head

December 6, 2007

Republicans Miss Deadline for June Ballot “Dirty Tricks” Change in Electoral College—But Are Now Planning on November Ballot Itself

December 6, 2007

“Ninety Years of Health Insurance Reform Efforts in California” from the California Research Bureau is our site of the day

December 6, 2007

“Sound Bite” Politics: “Don’t Let The Politicians Pick The Voters”…

December 6, 2007

Subprime Mortgage Crisis in California and the Nation: Broader Changes Needed from Industry and Policymakers

December 6, 2007

Ballot Box Balancing Act in California Health Care Reform

December 5, 2007

California Assembly Banking and Finance Chair: Bush Falls Short on Subprime Mortgage Crisis

December 5, 2007

Subprime Mortgage Crisis in California: Wide-Scale, Systematic Loan Modifications Hold Greatest Promise

December 5, 2007

Schrag: Be Wary of Distorted Factoids in “California’s Year of Education That Probably Won’t Be”

December 5, 2007

How Non-Citizens Became Eligible for Old Age Pensions in California

December 5, 2007

Why America is Becoming a Second-World Nation and California is in the Crosshairs

December 4, 2007

“Legislative Reform” by the Public Policy Institute of California is our site of the day

December 4, 2007

The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: California at the Epicenter of National Foreclosures

December 4, 2007

Report: Human Trafficking in California--Modern Day Slavery--Needs Action by California Government

December 4, 2007

California Republican Legislators Just Don't Care About the Poor and the Rest of Us in Health Care

December 4, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Redistricting Proposal Would Give Power to Unqualified People as a Matter of Law

December 4, 2007

California Court of Appeals Forbids Schwarzenegger Workers’ Comp Law From Being Used to Discriminate Against Seniors and Women

December 4, 2007

Wolk to Hold Hearing Thursday into Delta Fish Kill

December 4, 2007

A Progressive Vision of Human Space Exploration--Important to California, a Leader in Aerospace and High Tech

December 4, 2007

Why America is Becoming a Second-World Nation and California is in the Crosshairs

December 3, 2007

The ‘Idle Hands’ of Journalists Produce the ‘Politicians’ Pay Raise’ Story

December 3, 2007

New National Report on Sentencing Reform Should Be Applied to California Prisons

December 3, 2007

Oregon GOP Takes Dems off Crime List

December 3, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

December 3, 2007

Why America is Becoming a Second-World Nation and California is in the Crosshairs

December 2, 2007

Why America is Becoming a Second-World Nation and California is in the Crosshairs

December 2, 2007

Pending California Decision May Eliminate Drought Safeguard for Cities: Public Asked to Weigh In

December 2, 2007

California Government Surveillance Cameras Thrive Without Safeguards

December 1, 2007

Assemblymembers Ma and Caballero Urge Parents to Protect Children from Unsafe Toys During Holiday Season

December 1, 2007

As Delta Crumbles, California Water Board May Review Whether Exports Are Consistent With Public Trust

December 1, 2007

Voting by Mail and Low Turnout Local Elections in California

November 30, 2007

A Sea Change in California on the Sub Prime Mortgage Crisis--Democrats and Governor Schwarzenegger Recognize the Problem and Pledge Action

November 30, 2007

Summary of California Assembly Democratic Legislative Proposals for Subprime Reform & Foreclosure Prevention

November 30, 2007

Big 4 Gambling Deals – A Bad Deal For Education And For California--“No” on 94, 95, 96 and 97

November 30, 2007

Are California Progressives Blind to the Prison-Industrial Complex?

November 30, 2007

Vote by Mail Has Big Implications for California Presidential Primary According to Field Poll

November 29, 2007

Out of State Interests Launder Big Bucks on California Ballot Props

November 29, 2007

Environmental Watchdog Group Asks Poizner to Reveal Source of $1.5 Million From Out-of-State Interests Opposing California Term Limits Reform Prop 93

November 29, 2007

Nestle Wants to Own Your Water: Time for Californians to Act

November 29, 2007

California Needs the Chiropractor Consumer Protection Act--Now More Than Ever

November 28, 2007

California Must Start Now on School Finances if 2008 is to be the "Year of Education"

November 28, 2007

California Infrastructure: Schwarzenegger's Privatization Push is a Dangerous Giveaway for California

November 28, 2007

Schrag: Race in California and the United States

November 28, 2007

In California and the Nation: Many in Middle Class Willing But Unable to Obtain Insurance

November 28, 2007

California Conservatives on Budget Balancing: Step One, Cut People

November 27, 2007

California's Under Funded Infrastructure: Feinstein Urges San Diego to Increase Funding of Fire Services

November 27, 2007

The California Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Hearing on the Legislative Analyst Report is our site of the day

November 27, 2007

The Spoiled Sports in Congress as Viewed by a Californian

November 27, 2007

The Latest in a Tradition of Republican Obstruction in California and the Nation

November 26, 2007

The California Green Innovation Index is our site of the day

November 26, 2007

More Anti Prop 93 Propaganda Disguised As ‘Analysis’ By Dan Walters

November 26, 2007

The Betrayal of Trust for California's Children on Health Care

November 26, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

November 26, 2007

Did I drink the Kool-Aid?

November 25, 2007

Lessons from the Cosco Busan Oil Spill

November 25, 2007

Bayne on the California Democratic Party Meeting Last Week

November 24, 2007

The Fear of Losing Control in the California Democratic Party

November 24, 2007

Second Amendment Case Resolution by Supreme Court Will Be Unwelcome to Extremists on Both Sides of ‘Gun Debate’

November 23, 2007

The California Homeowners Protection Act: Real California Eminent Domain Reform Without Hidden Agendas

November 23, 2007

Governor’s Impotence Revealed As G.O.P. Senators Torpedo Bond Agreement. No Republican Votes For Schwarzenegger-Perata Water Plan.

November 23, 2007

Levee Repair in California Delta Results in Massive Fish Kill

November 22, 2007

A Thanksgiving Day Message from the California Progress Report

November 21, 2007

Schrag: Damage from Toxic Oil Spill Small Potatoes Next to Day-In, Day-Out Air Pollution from California's Major Ports

November 21, 2007

High Schools for Equity in California: A Progressive Education Agenda

November 21, 2007

Who's the Turkey Now?

November 21, 2007

Sonoma County Democratic Party Poopers

November 20, 2007

The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is our site of the day

November 20, 2007

California Nuclear Initiative Withdrawn: A Victory for Environmentalists and Setback for Nuclear Revivalists That May Have National Implications

November 20, 2007

Dan Walter’s “Pop” Analysis Fails As History

November 20, 2007

California Health Care Reform, Let's Hope--As Nation is Slipping Down a Slope

November 20, 2007

California Attorney General Brown Sues to Get the Lead Out of Toys

November 20, 2007

Our California Progressive Coalition

November 19, 2007

“Termed Out: Reforming California’s Legislative Term Limits” by the Center for Governmental Studies is our site of the day

November 19, 2007

Journalistic Coverage of the ‘Term Limits’ Initiative Has Been Pitiful (and Irresponsible)

November 19, 2007

Individual Health Care Mandates and the Problem of Affordability

November 19, 2007

It's Time to Bring the California National Guard Home

November 19, 2007

The Moral Imperative to Close California's Achievement Gap

November 19, 2007

Prediction: Hillary Clinton Will Not Win the California Presidential Primary

November 19, 2007

Pre-Kindergarten: A Popular Topic at California Achievement Gap Conference

November 19, 2007

California Labor Federation Supports Health Care Reform Bill With Changes to be Negotiated

November 18, 2007

The California Democratic Party and Dianne Feinstein

November 18, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

November 18, 2007

California's Achievement Gap Needs Solutions Based on the Problem

November 17, 2007

California Assembly Health Committee Chair Mervyn Dymally Discusses the Democrats’ Comprehensive Health Care Reform Bill

November 17, 2007

Four Referenda Battle Royale Over Largest Slot Machine Expansion in U.S. History Likely--First Tribal Casino Compact Certified for the California February 2008 Ballot

November 17, 2007

Lieber to Introduce Legislation to Require Tugboat Escorts for Hazardous Shipments in California's Harbors

November 17, 2007

Hillary Clinton a Good Fit for California's Environmental Concerns

November 16, 2007

Landlords' Hidden Agenda Scheme Being Circulated for California June Ballot Under the Guise of Eminent Domain Changes

November 16, 2007

How Many Students Does It Take To Stop The California Fee Hikes?

November 16, 2007

Optimism For Obama in California From the Grassroots

November 16, 2007

11 Winning Proposals in “There Oughta Be a Law” Contest Have Become California Law

November 16, 2007

Lessons California Can Learn from Oil Spills and Other Disasters

November 16, 2007

Why I'm Asking You to Support Proposition 92--The California Community College Initiative on the February 2008 Ballot

November 15, 2007

"Google Government"--New Report Calls for Greater Transparency in the California State Budget

November 15, 2007

Garamendi Coy in Altadena About Gubernatorial Run in 2010

November 15, 2007

California Health Reform Bill Advances in Special Session

November 15, 2007

Censure Feinstein? Because She’s Not as Liberal as Governor Angelides or President Kerry?

November 15, 2007

Next Year's California Budget Deficit of $10 Billion and the Most Vulnerable in Our State

November 15, 2007

The Perata-Nunez Health Bill: A Bridge Between Governor Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature

November 15, 2007

California's Oil Spill Eye Opener

November 14, 2007

The Year of Distraction: How the Environment Fared in California in 2007

November 14, 2007

Four Years Into the Arnold Era: Building Monuments in California with Borrowed Money

November 14, 2007

Should the California Democratic Party Censure Dianne Feinstein?

November 14, 2007

The "Insurmountable Opposition" to Democracy in California--Big Money

November 14, 2007

Does California Need a Crisis to Enact Major Public Policy?

November 14, 2007

A Modest Proposal to Balance California's Budget

November 13, 2007

CLCV 2007 Environmental Scorecard for Schwarzenegger & Legislature Finds Heroes, Villains and Freshmen Hopefuls

November 13, 2007

Vote Hope Fills Void in Latino Political Media--in Particular in California

November 13, 2007

New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization: A Report on the California Votes Initiative is our site of the day

November 13, 2007

Fighting the Anti-Immigrant Movement in the States

November 13, 2007

The California Democratic Party and Freeway Connectors

November 13, 2007

Feinstein Frees Fresno from Toyota Torture

November 12, 2007

Perata Blasts Schwarzenegger Administration for Failure of Response on San Francisco Oil Spill

November 12, 2007

The 2007 San Francisco Bay Oil Spill: Lessons Learned, Questions, and Policies

November 12, 2007

Looking Ahead to Wednesday's Hearing on California Health Care Bills

November 12, 2007

Central Valley Democrats Laying Foundation for 2008 California Elections as Part of 58 County Strategy

November 11, 2007

The California February ’08 Ballot, From the Perspective of Working Families

November 11, 2007

Health Care, Water, and the Rest of the Week in California Public Policy and Politics

November 11, 2007

New Research: California’s School Readiness Gap and the Promise of Effective Pre-Kindergarten Programs

November 11, 2007

Reflections on the Meaning of America and What Californians Want Our Representatives to Stand For in Our Nation's Capitol

November 10, 2007

San Francisco Oil Spill Emergency Oversight Hearings Next Week by Assembly Natural Resources Committee

November 10, 2007

California Veterans Deserve Our Thanks

November 9, 2007

Civil Rights Organizations Question Legality of Schwarzenegger Administration Proposal to Remove Judges and Restructure the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission

November 9, 2007

Election Night 2007: Progressive Gains but a Mixed Night on Ballot Initiatives Around the Country

November 9, 2007

California Coastal Commission to Consider Staff Recommendation to Reject Proposed Harmful Ocean Water Desalination Facility

November 9, 2007

Instant Runoff Voting a Winner on Election Day 2007

November 9, 2007

California's Busted State Budget

November 8, 2007

Immigration Not a Deciding Issue in 2007 Elections-- but Economic Concerns Do Loom Large

November 8, 2007

Speaker's Plan a Big Step in the Final Push for California Health Care Reform

November 8, 2007

Countdown to Election Day: College Students and Young Voters Will Keep California Blue!

November 8, 2007

2007 California Open Government Legislative Roundup: Successes and Failures

November 7, 2007

An Intriguing Thought: Mayor Newsom, the Next Governor of California

November 7, 2007

Schrag: Enlarging the Pool of Those Eligible for Admission to the University of California

November 7, 2007

New California Democratic Health Plan Would Significantly Expand Public Programs

November 7, 2007

California State Auditor Confirms Compensation Scandals at CSU

November 7, 2007

The Anti-Government Ideology that Left Orange County to be Inadequately Protected from the Southern California Firestorm

November 7, 2007

Wildfire and Population Growth Are On a Collision Course in the Sierra

November 7, 2007

Anonymous Speech is Mostly Digital Graffiti--Freedom of Expression Means Taking Responsibility for What You Write

November 6, 2007

Today's press conference on the California compromise Democratic health bill is our site of the day

November 6, 2007

Get a Laugh Out of This Mailer I Got From Republicans Seeking Signatures for Their Electoral College Dirty Tricks!

November 6, 2007

Claim of California Jobs Moving Out of State Shown by Study to be a Myth

November 6, 2007

Anti-Hillary Sentiment Tests Spiritual Principles of This Californian

November 6, 2007

Combating the New Jim Crow in California

November 6, 2007

California Takes First Step Towards Disenrolling Children from Health Coverage Because of Bush Veto of SCHIP

November 6, 2007

Squeeze Play: The California Democratic Health Care Compromise to Be Unveiled Today

November 5, 2007

The New and Free "Capitol Alert" from the Sacramento Bee is our site of the day

November 5, 2007

California's Opportunity to Pass a Compassionate Choice Law on the Tenth Anniversary of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

November 5, 2007

How We Think of the Striking Screenwriters Says a Lot About Us

November 5, 2007

California's Civil Rights Commission Caving to Pressure from Schwarzenegger Administration to Defend Itself from Planned Dismantlement

November 4, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

November 4, 2007

Big Tobacco Has Big Influence in California: Effective Anti-Smoking Advertising, Research, and Legislation All Blunted by Campaign Contributions and Lawsuits

November 4, 2007

California Senator Kuehl Receives Paul and Sheila Wellstone Leadership Award

November 4, 2007

Ocean Water Desalination Promise of Carbon-Offsets Doesn't Hold Water at California State Lands Commission Hearing

November 3, 2007

A Matter of Life or Death: Health Care Reform in California

November 3, 2007

Saving the California Condor So It is Not Just on the Back of the Quarter

November 2, 2007

Red Flag Warnings for Southern California as Winds Forecasted to Shift and Two Fires Still Burning

November 2, 2007

Imminent Eminent Domain Rip-Off Threatens California's Environment

November 2, 2007

Is California Headed in the Right Direction? How the Media is Interpreting Today's Field Poll and How the Numbers Stack Up

November 2, 2007

Physicians and Californians Support Aid in Dying, but the California Medical Association Doesn’t

November 2, 2007

Poizner Aide Secretly Helped Insurers in Lawsuit Against Commissioner, Should Be Fired

November 1, 2007

Republicans Violate the Law to Qualify Electoral Vote Scam--Break the Rules in Effort to Change the Rules?

November 1, 2007

Californians See College as Essential to Succeed in Workplace and Affordability as Main Issue in PPIC Survey

November 1, 2007

Legislators and Stakeholders Grill Schwarzenegger Health Plan on Affordability and Financing in California Assembly Health Committee Hearing

November 1, 2007

Halloween Theme Overplayed in Politics This Year

November 1, 2007

Californians' Attitudes on Hillary Clinton as President--Big News is Strong Independent Support--And That Bill Clinton is a Big Asset

November 1, 2007

California Assemblymember Kevin De Leon Reflects on His First Year in Office

October 31, 2007

California Statewide Poll Results--Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Electoral Power Grab Initiative

October 31, 2007

Extremism In The Maintenance Of Power Is No Vice…

October 31, 2007

Today's Field Poll on California Term Limits and Tribal Casino Propositions: Is the Glass Half Empty or Full?

October 31, 2007

When “Brownie” Meets “Jeffie”-- FEMA's Gaffe on the California Fires

October 31, 2007

Schrag: Brace Yourself for Schwarzenegger's Ballyhooed "Year of Education" on the Horizon

October 31, 2007

Why the Consumer Federation of California Opposes Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Care Proposal

October 31, 2007

California Delta Water Pumps Threaten Another Fish

October 31, 2007

Preschool and Fighting Crime in California

October 30, 2007

“FlashReport” Silent on Reported Indictment of Orange County G.O.P. Sheriff on Corruption Charges

October 30, 2007

As the Smoke Clears in San Diego: Republicans Complain About Imagined Complainers

October 30, 2007

Field Poll: Schwarzenegger Popular with California Voters, Including Democrats

October 30, 2007

Son of Prop 90: A Wolf if There Ever Was One in Sheep's Clothing

October 30, 2007

The Differences Between ArnoldCare and the Presidential Candidates...

October 30, 2007

Rebuilding After the Southern California Wildfires: What Consumers Should Look Out For on Insurance

October 29, 2007

Emergency Services Information: 2007 Southern California Wildfires is our site of the day

October 29, 2007

The Republican California Electoral Vote Scam – Method in Their Madness

October 29, 2007

A Call for California Legislation with Teeth to Protect Local Areas from Predatory Lending

October 29, 2007

Baseball and Global Warming

October 29, 2007

Californians Can Learn from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Health Care

October 29, 2007

Farm Bill Bulletin – Time for Californians to Call Our U.S. Senators

October 28, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

October 28, 2007

Disturbing Reports That San Diego Sheriff is Using the Fire to Enforce Immigration Laws

October 28, 2007

How Democrat Phil Burton Saved the California Republican Party

October 28, 2007

California Comeback Kids Fail to Come Back: Dismal Salmon Run on Yuba River

October 28, 2007

Field Poll Shows Californians Disapprove of Congress--But a Look Under the Hood Shows Partisan Divide and Republicans Are Biggest Losers

October 27, 2007

Victims, Heroes and Help: California Wildfires

October 27, 2007

Schwarzenegger Administration Proposes to Give Away State Water Resources

October 26, 2007

California Fire Watch Update (October 26, 2007 5:00 PM) With Updated Contact Information

October 26, 2007

Calitics on the California Fires is our site of the day

October 26, 2007

SCHIP and the Rigged Health Insurance Game

October 26, 2007

The Earth is Flat! Evolutionary Theory Contradicts the Bible’s Teaching. Man-Made Global Warming is Bunk?

October 26, 2007

Clinton in California: Catch Her if You Can

October 26, 2007

Join the California Wildfire Relief Effort

October 26, 2007

On California Firestorms Ask: How Green is My Insurance Commissioner?

October 26, 2007

California Member of Congress Jerry McNerney: "Low Income Children in California and Our Nation Deserve Health Coverage"

October 26, 2007

California Fire Watch Update (Late October 25, 2007) With Contact Information

October 25, 2007

Yeah, But Democrats Stole the Election For Kennedy 47 Years Ago (So Anything Done by the G.O.P. is OK)

October 25, 2007

Could Global Warming Melt the Insurance Glaciers in California?

October 25, 2007

California Healthy Families Program Considers Emergency Regulations in Light of SCHIP Veto by Bush and Override Failure

October 25, 2007

New California Field Poll: Giuliani Slipping With Republican Primary Voters Amidst Evidence that Democrats Are More Satifsifed with Their Candidates

October 24, 2007

As President Bush is About to Visit California, New Field Poll Shows only 27% Approval in State

October 24, 2007

New Redistricting Initiative Designed to Fail – Courts Would Redraw Districts for 2012

October 24, 2007

Denham Recall "Alive and Well" and Getting Signatures from Republicans!

October 24, 2007

Schrag: Federal DREAM Act Up for Vote Today--Why Isn't Schwarzenegger Demanding Its Passage?

October 24, 2007

Things We Saved in the Fire

October 24, 2007

Schwarzenegger Regulations Won’t Stop Insurers' Illegal Cancellations of Health Policies and Will Compound Problems with His Mandatory Health Insurance Plan

October 24, 2007

Draft Voter Guide for February Presidential Primary is Available for Public Inspection

October 23, 2007

California Fire Watch Update

October 23, 2007

"Migration, Health & Work-- Facts Behind the Myths" is our site of the day

October 23, 2007

The Story Behind the Revival of the California Electoral College Scheme and the Dots That Connect to the Giuliani Campaign

October 23, 2007

Feinstein Asked by Civil Rights Community to Oppose Southwick Confirmation to US Court of Appeals

October 22, 2007

"Would the Governor’s Proposed Tax Credit Make Health Care Affordable?" is our site of the day

October 22, 2007

Major Reforms Set to Hit California's Higher Education Systems

October 22, 2007

California Legislative Roundup: Legislature's Gains Muted by Governor Schwarzenegger's Veto Pen

October 22, 2007

The Very Partisan Pattern to Schwarzenegger Vetoes in 2007

October 22, 2007

Differences Between the Parties in Sacramento Revealed in Consumer Federation of California 2007 Scorecard for Legislators

October 21, 2007

Big Steps Forward on California Identity Theft Laws This Year--But Challenges Remain for Protecting Financial Data

October 21, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

October 21, 2007

Gerrymanders Cause Corruption – Unless Done by the G.O.P.

October 20, 2007

Campaign Contributions and Healthcare Legislation in California: What the Data Shows

October 19, 2007

Why is the Governor Hiding the Cost of his Plan from California Families?

October 19, 2007

Recent California Registration Trends: Good News for Democrats, Bad News for G.O.P. in Districts Drawn by the Legislature

October 19, 2007

New California Figures Show Increase in Voters Registered Without a Party

October 19, 2007

How to Revive California Redistricting Reform

October 19, 2007

Portantino Reflects on His First Year in the California Assembly

October 19, 2007

Planning and Conservation League 2007 California Legislative Wrap-up

October 18, 2007

A Day in the Life: Riverside Electrician Can't Get Medical Care Three Years After His Injury on Job--Asks California Insurance Commissioner to Investigate

October 18, 2007

"Shared Responsibility?" Doesn't Seem Like it From New California Labor Federation Report on Schwarzenegger Health Care Plan That Analyzes the Numbers

October 18, 2007

Local Level Work in California is the Best Way to Have National Level Impact

October 18, 2007

A Missed Opportunity to Lead on Immigration and Education: The Veto of the California Dream Act

October 18, 2007

California Police Get an Important New Crime-fighting Tool

October 18, 2007

Don’t Think of a Sick Child: Bush and SCHIP

October 17, 2007

Perata to Schwarzenegger: You've Failed Twice This Week on California's Water Crisis

October 17, 2007

Tired, Old Pro-Gun Messages in Use Since Wyatt Earp’s Ban on Open Carrying In Tombstone…

October 17, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Veto of the College Textbook Affordability Act: Where Do We Go From Here?

October 17, 2007

The California Nurses Association v. Nunez

October 17, 2007

"Making Ends Meet: How Much Does It Cost to Raise a Family in California?" a report by the California Budget Project, is our site of the day

October 17, 2007

The "Job Killer" Frame Used by Schwarzenegger and the Chamber of Commerce

October 17, 2007

Focus on the Policy Questions of California's Healthcare Proposals--Not the Political Spin

October 17, 2007

Schrag: Baseball and Immigration

October 17, 2007

California's Best Response to Al Gore's Nobel Prize: Assembly Bill 493, the Clean Car Rebate Bill

October 17, 2007

Delta Flows: Schwarzenegger Pushes Dangerous Amendments to Perata's Water Bond Proposal

October 16, 2007

"Mining Law Threatens California's National Parks; Other Areas at Risk" by the Environmental Working Group is our site of the day

October 16, 2007

Gore's Not the Only One Who Won

October 16, 2007

A Great Victory in the Battle for Clean Air in the Central Valley

October 16, 2007

Making California’s State Fleet of Cars the Greenest in the World: Why I'm Glad Governor Schwarzenegger Signed AB 236

October 16, 2007

College Students See Veto of California Dream Act as Contrary to American Values of Hard Work, Achievement, and Reward.

October 16, 2007

Health Bills: Schwarzenegger Signs Insurance Rescission, Drug Labeling, LA County Hospital Funding--Vetoes Mental Health Parity, Working Disabled Coverage, Patient Dumping

October 16, 2007

Californians Against Waste 2007 Legislation Wrap-Up

October 15, 2007

How the Environment Fared: California 2007 Session, Signings, and Vetoes

October 15, 2007

California Poll Shows Support for Clinton, Giuliani, Prop 93 (Term Limits), Legal Residency for Undocumented Immigrants, and Even a 1 Cent Sales Tax for Health Coverage

October 15, 2007

Much at Stake in California's Redistricting System

October 15, 2007

Absentee Voting Killed in California

October 15, 2007

Digging Through the Pile That Has Left Schwarzenegger's Desk: Bills Signed--And the 22% He Vetoed This Year

October 15, 2007

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Pro-Family Bills as Corporate Interests Trump Family Values

October 15, 2007

Bad Weekend for Migrant Farm Workers in California as Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bills

October 14, 2007

Rubber Ducks in a Row as Schwarzenegger Signs Ma Bill to Protect Children from Toxic Chemicals in Toys

October 14, 2007

Ham–Handed Pro-Gun Republicans Induce Anti-Gun Response From Governor Schwarzenegger

October 14, 2007

Flurry of 78 Schwarzenegger Vetoes in Last Two Days: Major Legislation Vetoed Includes Health Care Reform, California Dream Act, Gender Neutral Marriage, Wage Discrimination, Workers' Compensation, ID Theft, and Public Records

October 14, 2007

Leno to Schwarzenegger on Veto of Marriage Equality Bill: "You're on the Wrong Side of History"

October 14, 2007

Against The Ropes, California Nuclear Power Proponents Put Up Their Nukes In New Fights

October 13, 2007

California Solar Water Heating Bill Signed into Law--Big Win for Fighting Global Warming, Reducing Dependence on Natural Gas, and Consumers

October 13, 2007

Democratic State Senator Delivers Schwarzenegger's Radio Address on Flood Package on Governor's Nickel

October 13, 2007

Fact Check of Governor Schwarzenegger's Veto Statement on Health Care Bill

October 13, 2007

An Expected but Disappointing Veto by Governor Schwarzenegger of the Democratic Health Care Bill

October 13, 2007

Expanding Opportunities for English Learners in California

October 13, 2007

New Hampshire's Peculiar Institution

October 12, 2007

Websites to find out which bills have been signed or vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger are our sites of the day

October 12, 2007

There's a Buzz in the California Air About Al Gore

October 12, 2007

A Case from Oakland Demonstrates Why Governor Schwarzenegger Should Sign Bill Requiring Recording of Police Interrogations

October 12, 2007

California Becomes First State to Prohibit Landlords From Asking About Tenants' Immigration Status

October 12, 2007

Lack of Action to Combat Marine Pollution Undermines Schwarzenegger’s Ocean Protection Effort

October 12, 2007

Analysis of Governor Schwarzenegger's Legislative Language on Health Care

October 12, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Insurance Plan 2.0 From the Standpoint of a Negotiator

October 12, 2007

Durst: Bush's Veto of SCHIP--Healthcare for Children--Like Throwing Shoes at States' Fontanelle

October 12, 2007

The Senate Loses its Cool: The Undemocratic Ways States Fill Senate Vacancies

October 11, 2007

Bill Signings: A Flood of Cheers for Better Flood Protection in California

October 11, 2007

Parolee ID Bill Should be Signed by Governor Schwarzenegger

October 11, 2007

Critical Toxic, Waste Prevention, and Recycling Bills on Schwarzenegger's Desk

October 11, 2007

Small Business for Affordable Healthcare is our site of the day

October 11, 2007

Historic Package of California Flood Bills Becomes Law

October 11, 2007

Late Yesterday Another Dam Proposal Surfaced: Schwarzenegger Continues Push For Dams After Prior Package Defeated

October 11, 2007

University of California Students Active in Urging Schwarzenegger to Sign California Dream Act

October 11, 2007

Fiscal Savings and Medical Release Bill Presents Schwarzenegger With Rare Opportunity

October 10, 2007

Protecting Our Children from Toxic Toys: Why Governor Schwarzenegger Should Sign AB 1108 and Why There Was a 25 Foot High Rubber Duck in San Francisco

October 10, 2007

Sexually Transmitted Infections Among California Youth: Estimated Incidence and Direct Medical Cost is our site of the day

October 10, 2007

Schwarzenegger Did a Bit of His Own Kabuki on Health Care Yesterday

October 10, 2007

Schrag: California's Infrastructure and Growing Multibillion-Dollar Debt Must Be Repaid by Somebody

October 10, 2007

Why California Needs the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorized, Not Downsized

October 10, 2007

Saving the Endangered Working and Middle-Class in California's Cities: Lessons to be Learned from What is Happening in San Francisco

October 9, 2007

“Battle of the Water Bonds” Ensues After Perata Bill Fails to Pass Senate in Special Session

October 9, 2007

Drama This Afternoon in the California Capitol--Senate to Vote on Water Bond; Governor Schwarzenegger to Speak on Health Care Special Session at Press Conference

October 9, 2007

Perata Makes His Case That the Time is Now to Get California's Water Plans Set From a Policy and Political Perspective

October 9, 2007

Are politicians really idiots?

October 9, 2007

What's in Perata's Bill--"The Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008"--A $6.8 Billion Bond That Will Probably Be on the California Ballot in 2008 One Way or Another?

October 8, 2007

HAPPY “COLUMBUS DAY”? (From Cavala and Russo)

October 8, 2007

"How Does California Compare? Funding California’s Public Schools" is our site of the day

October 8, 2007

All Eyes Today Should Be on California Water Hearings

October 7, 2007

Schwarzenegger Vetoes Transparency in Local Government Bill Passed Overwhelmingly by Legislature

October 7, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

October 7, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger Has Over 550 Bills to Sign or Veto in One Week

October 7, 2007

Californians Will Have 51 Presidential Candidates to Choose from in February 2008 Primary--As It Stands Now

October 7, 2007

California Must Continue to Lead the World, This Time It’s Water

October 6, 2007

Do California Taxes 'Hurt'? Is California Government "Bad"?

October 5, 2007

"Financing Water Projects" by the California Legislative Analyst's Office is our site of the day

October 5, 2007

Economics and the Complexity of the Science of Water May Be High Hurdles in the California Water Special Session

October 5, 2007

Fish Groups and Indian Tribes Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign Bill to Empower California Department of Fish and Game on Dredge Gold Mining

October 5, 2007

My California Family Leave Law on Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk

October 5, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Decision to Sign or Veto Oakland School Bill May Be Purely Political

October 5, 2007

Why the Sierra Club Opposes New Dams in the Special Session on California Water

October 5, 2007

California Health Care in the Special Session: An Analysis of the "Working Draft" of Legislative Language That No One Claims to "Own"

October 5, 2007

California State University Executive Pay Hikes--Illegal Gift of Public Funds--Another Reason AB 1413 Needs to be Signed by the Governor

October 4, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk Still Cluttered, Water Investment Principles Hearing Held

October 4, 2007

Something’s Happening on California Water Issues This Monday—Senate Staff Told to Report to the Capitol Even Though It’s a State Holiday

October 4, 2007

San Joaquin Valley Leaders Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign SB 719

October 4, 2007

What Do Air Conditioners Have to Do With Identity Theft? Bills Schwarzenegger Should Sign to Protect Your Privacy

October 3, 2007

Salvos Fired In California Water Wars--Assembly Hearing Tomorrow--Senate Hearing Postponed to Monday

October 3, 2007

"Privacy Revolt," a web page and project of the Consumer Federation of California, is our site of the day

October 3, 2007

Why California Law Must Protect Our Kids From Secondhand Smoke

October 3, 2007

Bush Vetoes Child Health Insurance: What This Means for California

October 3, 2007

Expanding Family Leave in Today's California: Why Governor Schwarzenegger Should Sign SB 727 and AB 537

October 3, 2007

Former Gang Members Ask Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign AB 1049 for Youth Parole Re-Entry Programs

October 3, 2007

An Incumbent’s Age Eventually Makes a Seat ‘Competitive’

October 3, 2007

The California Budget Impasse: Political Chicanery or Democracy in Action?

October 3, 2007

Schrag: The Zigs and Zags of Education Reform 50 Years After Sputnik

October 3, 2007

Leader in Opposition to California Term Limits Reform Indicted for Felony Campaign Fraud in Oklahoma

October 3, 2007

Al Gore Could be on the Ballot in California

October 3, 2007

Rush to Judgment (I Hope)

October 2, 2007

"Looking Beyond the Horizon: Investment planning for the 21st century," issued by State Treasurer Lockyer, is our site of the day

October 2, 2007

Full Day of Special Session Hearings This Thursday on California Water Issues

October 2, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger, Please Sign SB 936 for Me and Other Californians Injured on the Job

October 2, 2007

California Voters Have Right to Know Who Financed, Aided , and Abetted Attempt to Rig the Electoral College

October 2, 2007

Retailers and California Chamber of Commerce Lobbying Governor to Veto Bill Requiring Them to Act Responsibly in Protecting Credit Card Data

October 2, 2007

Chevron’s New Coat of Lipstick

October 1, 2007

Federal Elections Commission Asked to Investigate Role of Giuliani Campaign in California Electoral College Scheme--Referral to US Department of Justice Also Requested

October 1, 2007

G.O.P. Electoral Vote Scheme Blows Up – Spreading Egg All Over Faces of Republican Operatives, Shills

October 1, 2007

Clinton Draws Huge Enthusiastic Crowd in Oakland; Obama Opens Headquarters

October 1, 2007

As Libertarianism Reaches for the High Frontier--Let's Not Forget California's Aerospace Industry and Its Potential for Good or Evil

September 30, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

September 30, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger's Historic Chance to Fight Crime and Gun Trafficking

September 30, 2007

Dead or Still Crawling, Many Take Credit for Demise of Republican Electoral College Scheme

September 30, 2007

California Reading Scores Shameful- Again: National Scores Essentially Stagnant.

September 30, 2007

An “Extraordinary” California Idea About Water Policy: Put Principles First

September 29, 2007

Assemblymember Laird Lays Out Democratic Principles on Water in California Legislative Special Session

September 29, 2007

Enabling New California Citizens to Vote as We Approach the 2008 Presidential Election

September 29, 2007

"The Healthy Heart and Lung Act" Awaits Governor Schwarzenegger's Signature

September 28, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger: Protect Affordable Mobile Home Housing

September 28, 2007

G.O.P. Presidential Candidates Shun Minority Forum (And The South Will Rise Again?)

September 28, 2007

Water Legislation Beginning to Boil in California Special Session

September 28, 2007

I Sent the Wrong Man to Jail: Why Governor Schwarzenegger Should Sign SB 756

September 28, 2007

U.S. CONGRESS PASSES CHILDREN'S COVERAGE; SCHIP HEADS TOWARD VETO

September 27, 2007

Breaking News: Republicans Give Up Scheme to Change Electoral College for California

September 27, 2007

Republican Mayor of San Diego's Principles on Gay Marriage Has Those Thinking of Politics Talking

September 27, 2007

Family Planning Services Bill on Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk--"One of the Most Important of the Year"--The Cost of Doing Nothing is Too High

September 27, 2007

Premature Nomination Dysfunction: The Presidential Race that Started Too Early May Be Over Before We Know It

September 27, 2007

The Absurdity of Incarcerating the Incapacitated: California Prisons are Wasting Taxpayers’ Money and Endangering the Public

September 27, 2007

Curbing California's Urban Heat Islands

September 27, 2007

California Republican Congressional Delegation Disappointing in Vote on Children's Health Bill--With One Exception

September 27, 2007

Robbing the Delta of Fresh Water and Delta Water Users of their Rights to Delta Water

September 26, 2007

Will the California Building Industry Continue to Attack CEQA?

September 26, 2007

Former California Attorney General Urges Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign Public Safety Bills to Prevent Wrongful Convictions

September 26, 2007

Schrag: Why Does the University of California Keep Shooting Itself in the Foot?

September 26, 2007

A Californian Looks at Mahmoud

September 25, 2007

The More Things Stay the Same: A Personal Story on Desegregation

September 25, 2007

The More Things Change: Remembering the "Little Rock Nine"

September 25, 2007

Congressional Vote Today to Decide Direction Of Children's Coverage-- California's Healthy Families May Have to Disenroll Hundreds of Thousands

September 25, 2007

Federal Judges to California on Prisons: "How Do We Address Your Needs While People are Dying?"

September 25, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger's Remarks to the United Nations on California's Role in Fighting Global Warming

September 25, 2007

Schwarzenegger on World Stage at U.N. Speaking on Climate Change While He Plans the Delta's Destruction in California

September 25, 2007

There He Goes Again – Dan Walters Invents a Rationale to Defend All G.O.P. Dirty Tricks

September 24, 2007

California Energy Consumption Statistics & Maps from eredux.com is our site of the day

September 24, 2007

Don't Let "Signature Blockers" Intimidate You on California Tribal Casino Referendum

September 24, 2007

Historic Federal Three Judge Panel to Hear Arguments Today on California Prison Overcrowding

September 23, 2007

Internet Second Only to TV for Where Californians Get Most of Their Information About Politics

September 23, 2007

A Dozen Health Consumer Bills On Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk

September 23, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

September 23, 2007

Academic Freedom at the University of California in the Wake of Chemerinsky and Summers

September 23, 2007

California's Global Warming Challenges Come A Courtin'

September 22, 2007

A Life That Mattered: The Other Side of Public Policymaking in California

September 22, 2007

Assemblymember Ma Urges Governor Schwarzenegger to Protect California’s Children from Cancerous Chemicals

September 22, 2007

Water Soaks the Special Session in California

September 21, 2007

A Dam Deception: Schwarzenegger's Greenwashing Attempt All Wet

September 21, 2007

Clinton and Giuliani Lead in California Primary--Why Things Look Good for Democrats in November in California

September 21, 2007

PPIC Poll: Californians Gloomy on Future--From Economy to State and Federal Government

September 21, 2007

Californians Want Major Change in Health Care and Favor Elements of Schwarzenegger and Democratic Plans

September 21, 2007

Insurers Oppose California Timely Access to Medical Care Standards in Regulatory Hearings

September 21, 2007

A Hard Ball Response to the Republican Electoral College Plot in California

September 20, 2007

Diversity at the University of California

September 20, 2007

"Wrong Direction: One Out of Three Americans Are Uninsured" is our site of the day

September 20, 2007

Industry Looks to Federal Rules to Preempt State Regulation

September 20, 2007

So Now We Are in Special Session on California Health Care. What's the Next Step?

September 20, 2007

Senator Kuehl Expresses Gratitude to Secretary of Consumer Affairs Rosario Marin, Author of a Proposal to Dismantle California’s Panel on Civil Rights, for Midnight Invitation

September 20, 2007

You Could Be Wrongfully Imprisoned Like I Was--Unless Governor Schwarzenegger Signs SB 511 and SB 609

September 20, 2007

Immigrant Bashing in San Diego

September 19, 2007

66 California Inmate Deaths Preventable According to Prison Receiver Robert Sillen

September 19, 2007

California Should Not Wait for More Deaths from E. Coli Before Policing Leafy Greens Industry

September 19, 2007

A Californian Views With Alarm How Dissenters Are Treated in the Mainstream Media

September 19, 2007

Schrag: The Insularity and Lack of Diversity of Elected California Republicans vs. Democrats Who Look Like the State

September 19, 2007

Blackwater: "Mafia-like"Mercenaries in Iraq and California: What We Can Do at Home About This

September 19, 2007

Three Bills on Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk Can Safeguard Against Wrongful Convictions in California

September 18, 2007

Battle Lines Drawn Between Perata and Schwarzenegger on Water Bills in California Special Session

September 18, 2007

Schwarzenegger Proposes $9 Billion Water Bond Boondoggle

September 18, 2007

"State of Lung Disease in Diverse Communities: 2007" from the American Lung Association is our site of the day

September 18, 2007

While California Legislators Play Politics with Compassionate Choices Act, End of Life Consultation to Help Terminally Ill is Launched

September 18, 2007

The Price of ‘Cheating’? For Ballplayers--a Bad Media Story--For Trial Lawyers Who Have Successfully Sued Businesses and Who Have Contributed To Democrats? Jail Time

September 18, 2007

If I had a Hammer---Reflections on Peter Paul, and Mary in Santa Barbara and the Current California Scene

September 18, 2007

Proposed 12% California State University Executive Pay Increase Opposed by Lt. Governor Garamendi in Light of Student Fee Increases

September 17, 2007

Senator Sheila Kuehl: The Dismantling of the Fair Employment and Housing Commission

September 17, 2007

California GOP's Election "Reform" Measure Reeks of Rove

September 17, 2007

Justice Department Cover-Up of Republican Party Effort To Hinder Voter Turnout? More Dirty Tricks by the G.O.P

September 17, 2007

2007 California Legislative Session--Some Progress on Energy, Air and Flood Protection--But Important Work on Land Use, Ports and Toxics Will Have to Wait

September 17, 2007

This Article is Not About Erwin Chemerinsky

September 17, 2007

A Nunez-Schwarzenegger Compromise or Single Payer for California?

September 17, 2007

Redistricting ‘Reform’ Will Not Create a Party of Republican Moderates in California

September 16, 2007

Major California Water Deal Could Come as Early as Wednesday

September 16, 2007

While California Dreams: The End of Session Week

September 16, 2007

Special Interests Spar with Condors and Kangaroos in California: Two Bills on Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk and the Resignation of a Fish and Game Commissioner

September 16, 2007

California Condor Targeted For Extinction By National Rifle Association Policies? Will Schwarzenegger Provide an “Assist”?

September 16, 2007

Federal Farm Bill Summit in Sacramento Cultivates Conservation Campaign

September 16, 2007

9 11 07: Something Wicked This Way Came

September 15, 2007

"Learning from California’s Zero-Emission Vehicle Program" is our site of the day

September 15, 2007

Recycling Victories in California Legislature Highlight Session Wrap Up--Bills on the Governor's Desk

September 15, 2007

Refreshing News: Deluge of Strong Flood Policy Bills Heads to Governor Schwarzenegger

September 15, 2007

Preventative Dental Care Legislation Will Not Just Help California’s Children Smile

September 14, 2007

California Legislature Demands UC Workers Get Voice On Pensions

September 14, 2007

California Legislature 2007: Some Hard Fought Wins in Air and Water--Toxics Measures Tank--Two of Biggest Environmental Bills Will Wait Until Next Year

September 14, 2007

Almost Paradise: If Only California Family Farms Survived

September 13, 2007

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: California Fish and Game Commissioner Under Fire For Attempting to Do His Job

September 13, 2007

Will Special Session Yield California Health Care Reform?

September 13, 2007

Speaker Nunez Names “Working Groups” of California Legislators to Advance Special Session Health Care and Water Issues

September 13, 2007

Stop the Republican "Steal the State" Plot is our site of the day

September 13, 2007

Tidal Wave of Resentment Could Wash Out G.O.P Chances as Republicans Shun Schwarzenegger’s “High Ground”

September 13, 2007

Fear and Loathing of Honest Debate Behind the Loss of Chemerinsky at UC Irvine Law School

September 13, 2007

The Worst Model for California Health Care Would Be Workers' Compensation "Reform"

September 13, 2007

Threat to Civil Rights Enforcement in California from the Governor's Office

September 13, 2007

Fighting For Fair Wages: The Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

September 13, 2007

Schrag: Reflections on the Iraq War Six Years After September 11, 2001

September 12, 2007

End of Session: California Legislation That Passed to the Governor's Desk--And Why You May See Some Zombies Today

September 12, 2007

Sex Offenders Shunted Into Small Republican Rural Towns – By Republican Lawmakers?

September 12, 2007

Democracy Under Attack Right Here in California by Those Who Block Ballot Petitions

September 12, 2007

Schwarzenegger Vetoes California Ballot Proposition Vote on Iraq Withdrawal

September 12, 2007

California State Senate Adjourns 2007 Session While Bizarre Middle of the Night Hearing Held on Newly Minted Prison Guard Pay Bill

September 11, 2007

Three Ring Circus in Sacramento: Special Session on Health and Water, Tonight is Deadline for Governor to Decide Whether to Allow Iraq Vote, A Flood of Bills Pass by the Hour Including More Flood Safety Legislation

September 11, 2007

Senator Sheila Kuehl’s Floor Statement Health Care Reform and AB 8

September 11, 2007

Sentencing Commission Law Among Over 200 Bills Left for the Last Day of the 2007 California Legislative Session

September 11, 2007

Recap and Analysis of Yesterday’s Legislative Floor Debates on California Health Care

September 11, 2007

Perata on Health Care Bill Passed By California Legislature

September 10, 2007

California State Assembly Gives Final Passage to AB 8—Democratic Health Care Legislation Goes to Governor Schwarzenegger Who Will Veto It and Call a Special Session

September 10, 2007

California State Senate Passes Nunez-Perata Health Care Bill: Assembly Debating AB 8 Now for Final Passage

September 10, 2007

Scientific Study Reveals That Conservatives Lack Brain Power – Unable To Break Bad Habits, Correct Mistakes

September 10, 2007

California Democratic Health Bill Receives Broad Support from Labor and Consumer Groups—Will Be Voted on This Morning in Senate

September 10, 2007

The California Legislature Must Act on Redistricting Reform NOW

September 10, 2007

AB 8 Health Care As Amended: Calling the Question, Point of Information...

September 10, 2007

Health Care: California Labor to Announce Support for Amended AB 8 Today--Senate Floor Vote Expected This Afternoon

September 10, 2007

Commonsense Bill to Prevent the Spread of AIDS and Other Diseases from Prisons to the California Public is on Governor Schwarzenegger's Desk

September 10, 2007

Dividing California's Electoral Votes by Congressional Districts Would Increase the Chance of Electing a President Who Lost the Popular Vote

September 10, 2007

Truth in Advertising? Just Say No to New California Nuke Initiative

September 10, 2007

Charlie Brown: A Soldier of Peace Launches His Campaign for Congress

September 9, 2007

California Republican Party: Dirty Tricks and "Four More Years"--In Iraq

September 9, 2007

Covering the End of the California Legislative Session Has Many Challenges and Yet is So Important

September 9, 2007

Attorney Seeks Probe of California Electoral Vote Plan

September 9, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

September 9, 2007

In Race For California Flood Policy Reform, One Horse Needs Your Help! Three Horses Already Dash Across the Line

September 9, 2007

Letters Project to Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign AB 43 for Gender Neutral Marriage

September 9, 2007

Air Pollution from California's Ports: A Serious Health Issue--Senate Bill 974 and the Art of the Possible

September 9, 2007

La Jolla’s “Pool” Is Hardly Tranquil

September 8, 2007

Republicans Are “Dying At The Box Office” Because, ”Saying No Is Not The Basis For A Healthy Political Party”

September 8, 2007

Assemblymember Lois Wolk on the California Comprehensive Flood Protection Package Passed This Week

September 8, 2007

California Health Reform Heats Up In Final Days of Legislature

September 8, 2007

Charlie Brown Launches Second Sortie Against Doolittle for California Congressional Seat

September 7, 2007

Avoiding Another Katrina: Package of Three California Flood Protection Bills Go to Governor Schwarzenegger While Two Others Await Final Passage

September 7, 2007

California Legislature Sends Gender Neutral Marriage Bill to Governor Schwarzenegger

September 7, 2007

The First Shall Be Last: The Dangerous Decline in Primary Turnouts

September 7, 2007

California Senate Passes Gun Microstamping--Governor to Get Prescription Labeling, Police Interrogation, College Textbook Bills--and Measure Gutting Local Campaign Finance Laws

September 7, 2007

Major Breakthrough on California Flood Protection Legislation

September 7, 2007

Why the California Legislature Usually Gets It Wrong On Public Education

September 6, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Folly--That Reductions in Water Exports Can Be Offset by Water Delivery through a Peripheral Canal

September 6, 2007

Landmark Legislation to Ban Dangerous Chemical in Children's Toys Clears Legislature--Governor Expected to be Lobbied Heavily by Industry to Veto

September 6, 2007

California Assembly Sends Governor Major Gender Pay Discrimination Legislation and a Slew of Other Bills

September 6, 2007

California Senate Sends Governor Bills Requiring Open UC and CSU Meetings on Executive Compensation, Banning Trans Fats in Schools, Fines for Voter Intimidation, Emergency Preparedness for Colleges, and Requiring Corroboration of "Snitch" Testimony

September 6, 2007

Cleaning Up Air Pollution from California's Ports Will Have to Wait Until Next Year

September 6, 2007

The Truth About Brominated and Chlorinated Fire Retardants and Why They Should be Banned in California

September 6, 2007

The Problem of Paid Canvassers in the California Referendum and Initiative Process

September 5, 2007

Why “Vote Us Out of Iraq” on the California Ballot Makes Sense to Me

September 5, 2007

If Not Now, “When” is it Time for Unified Disaster Preparedness in California?

September 5, 2007

This Year's California State Budget: Third in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl--The Trailer Bills

September 5, 2007

End of Session Rush Begins as California Legislature Passes Bills on Toxics, Preservation of the California Condor, Voter Intimidation, Domestic Partners, Immigration, and Recycling

September 5, 2007

Schrag: For $2 Million You Can Get Just About Anything on the Ballot--2008 with 3 Elections Will Have Plenty

September 4, 2007

Term Limits Reform Proposition Qualifies for February 2008 Ballot

September 4, 2007

Schwarzenegger Faces Defining Tests on "Post-Partisanship" With Decisions on Iraq War Vote and Last Minute Presidential Election Changes

September 4, 2007

One Californian's Opinion on the War: "Everything But the Plastic Turkey"

September 4, 2007

Aquafornia, The Southern California Water Blog is our site of the day

September 4, 2007

Hold onto Your Hats: California Legislature Will Pass Hundreds of Bills in a Little Over a Week

September 4, 2007

The Latest in California Water Wars: Federal Judge Order to State and Federal Governments to Reduce Pumping to Protect Delta Smelt--How Will We Respond?

September 4, 2007

California Health Care Reform by the End of Next Week?

September 3, 2007

A Remembrance of Alameda County's Labor Day Picnics

September 3, 2007

Don't Forget the Injured Worker on Labor Day in California

September 3, 2007

A Labor Day Call to Action for Healthcare in California

September 3, 2007

Initiatives and More Initiatives Filling Up the 2008 California Ballot.

September 3, 2007

Labor Day 2007 Thoughts From Davis, California

September 2, 2007

Job Killer or Opportunity to Help Clean Up L.A.'s Filthy Air?

September 2, 2007

The Salinas Californian and the Vegetable Industrial Complex

September 2, 2007

California Flood Policy Is Like...Gymnastics?

September 1, 2007

Remembering the History of Labor Day and Thinking of the Future of California's Workers

September 1, 2007

A Tiny California Fish That Makes a Big Difference

August 31, 2007

"Final Review of 2007-2008 State Budget Act" by Assembly Budget Chair John Laird is our site of the day

August 31, 2007

Health Reform and the Year of Magical Thinking in California

August 31, 2007

A Little Cold Water on Special Session of California Legislature to Deal with Bills Sidetracked by Extended Budget Imbroglio

August 31, 2007

Yesterday was Judgment Day for Most Major Environmental Bills in the California Legislature

August 31, 2007

California Senator Dean Florez Questions Results of Leafy Green Industry Self-Regulation in Light of Salmonella Outbreak

August 31, 2007

Perata Answers Questions on California Iraq Ballot Measure, Health Care, and Redistricting--Candid Comments as the End of Session Approaches

August 31, 2007

California Health Care Reform Boiling Down to Deal Between Legislative Democrats and Governor--Nunez Optimistic About Health Care and Redistricting--and Term Limits

August 31, 2007

Budget Cuts Only Deepen Our Resolve for a World-class Transportation System in California

August 31, 2007

Reports of Demise of California Term Limits Initiative Are Premature

August 31, 2007

The Sad and Tawdry Aspects of the Larry Craig Affair

August 30, 2007

California Democrats Need to Stand up for Government-Financed Health Care Coverage

August 30, 2007

Perata to Schwarzenegger: Trust the People--Sign “Vote Us Out” of Iraq Ballot Measure to Allow Us to Vote on the War

August 30, 2007

"Death in the Golden State: Why Do Some Californians Live Longer?" is our site of the day

August 30, 2007

Broken Process Yields a Bad Budget for California

August 30, 2007

Perata: With Ballot Box Mandates on Spending, Elected Leaders are not in Charge of What We Spend in California--The Need for Budget Reform

August 30, 2007

California Educational Test Results?

August 29, 2007

This Year's California State Budget: Second in a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl--Cuts and Non-budget Demands by Republican Senators

August 29, 2007

Legendary Connnie McCormack, Elections Official for Los Angeles and San Diego, Leaves the Field

August 29, 2007

Will There Be a Health Bill in California? Politics v. Policy

August 29, 2007

Alberto Gonzales' Heck of a "Good" Job on the Anniversary of Katrina

August 29, 2007

AB 118 – Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Fuels, and a Critical Investment in California’s Economic and Transportation Future

August 29, 2007

Schrag: "Racial" Achievement Gaps in Educational Testing in California

August 29, 2007

Bottled Water Should Be Held to the Same Standard as Other Drinking Water in California--And You Can Do Something About It

August 29, 2007

If Presidential Campaigns Were Pennant Races--The Republican Scheme on California's Electoral Votes

August 28, 2007

"Health Care Reform Proposals Hold Promise for Diverse Communities: Getting California Ready" is our site of the day

August 28, 2007

Abandonment of Initiative to Virtually Eliminate Class Action Suits in California--Beating Back Bad Initiatives--One at a Time

August 28, 2007

New Poll: Republicans Hemorrhaging Youth Support--California Democrats Reach Out

August 28, 2007

Impassioned Debate in the California Assembly on Iraq and the Ballot Measure to Allow Us to Express Our Views to the President and Our Members of Congress

August 28, 2007

Oh, No! Another Republican U.S. Senator Involved In Hanky Panky?

August 28, 2007

Returning Veterans Fight to Save “Hallowed Ground” in California

August 28, 2007

California Health Care Reform Too Important to Diverse Communities to Waste Window of Opportunity

August 28, 2007

Student-Led Think Tank Advances Progressive Policy Reforms, Many of Which Can Be Implemented by State Legislatures and Local Governments

August 28, 2007

California Legislature’s Big Oil Industry Reforms Emerge as Pipsqueaks

August 27, 2007

Iraq Withdrawal Measure for California February Presidential Primary About to Land on Governor's Desk

August 27, 2007

The First of More than $3 Billion in Late Payments Printed and Mailed Today

August 27, 2007

This Year's California State Budget: A Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

August 27, 2007

Business Owners to Become I.N.S. Agents? Republicans Seek Job-Killing Regulation of Business

August 27, 2007

Talkin' Bout My Generation: Economic Security, the Challenge for California Progressives in 2007

August 27, 2007

Stop the GOP from Stealing the Presidency Right Here in California

August 27, 2007

"The Year of Health Care Reform in California"--Is This the Way It's Going to End?

August 27, 2007

California Bill to Identify Gun Traffickers Brings Brady Campaign to San Pablo Tomorrow on Anniversary of Martin Luther King Speech

August 27, 2007

Is the Old Schwarzenegger Baack? A Look at the Prescription Drug Veto

August 26, 2007

Mental Health Budget Cuts: "Rehabilitation is Cheaper than Incarceration--Dignity is Priceless

August 26, 2007

Baseball Cards, Football Cards.....But Poizner Cards?

August 26, 2007

While California Dreams: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

August 26, 2007

California Flood News (And Why We Care)

August 26, 2007

So-Called "Eminent Domain" Ballot Proposition is Back and Has Former Supporters Scratching Their Heads

August 26, 2007

What Do California Working Women and Their Families Want?

August 25, 2007

Setting the Record Straight on Transportation Funding in the California Budget

August 25, 2007

Priorities and Values in California State Budget: Cuts for Mental Health Program to Help Homeless--While Allowing Tax Break for Yacht and Private Plane Owners

August 25, 2007

Why Should the “Fairness” of Legislative Districts Boundaries Be Judged By How Often Seats “Change Hands” Between the Parties?

August 25, 2007

California Legislation to Combat “Hot Fuels” and Unfair Gasoline Prices

August 25, 2007

Health Cuts By Governor Schwarzenegger in Signing California Budget Include Prescription Drug Program Touted on "Meet the Press " as a Major Success

August 25, 2007

Education Wins and Losses in the California State Budget for the 2007-08 School Year

August 24, 2007

Schwarzenegger Signs California State Budget, But Not Before Cutting Mental Health, Medi-Cal, and Discount Prescription Programs

August 24, 2007

Field Poll: Californians Rate Overall Congress Job Performance at New Low--Failure to End Iraq War Seen as Major Cause

August 24, 2007

Delicious Ironies in California Electoral College Power Grab

August 24, 2007

CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET HOLD-UP ENDS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EXAMINED

August 24, 2007

California Senate Republicans’ Budget Play A Real Flop

August 23, 2007

The Babe Drank Beer (An Illegal Substance In The ‘20’s) And Lied About It (Like Everyone Else). Barry Drinks Gatorade, A ‘Performance Enhancing’ Drink. Is An Asterisk Called For?

August 23, 2007

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Comments on Field Poll About Voter Confidence in Elections

August 23, 2007

A Plan To Attack California’s High School Dropout Crisis

August 23, 2007

GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN AND PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON?

August 23, 2007

Field Poll: Less Than Half of California Voters Have "Great Deal" of Confidence That Their Votes Are Being Accurately Counted

August 23, 2007

"A Generation of Widening Inequality: The State of Working California, 1979 to 2006" is our site of the day

August 23, 2007

Preserving the American Dream: California Lags Other States in Responding to the Foreclosure Crisis

August 23, 2007

Preserving the American Dream: California Can Help Borrowers Avoid Foreclosure

August 23, 2007

Preserving the American Dream: Legislative Recommendations to Protect Future Borrowers in California

August 23, 2007

Reducing Wrongful Convictions: California Assembly to Vote on Bill Requiring Corroboration of Jailhouse Informants

August 23, 2007

THE LOWDOWN ON CALIFORNIA'S FLOOD POLICY

August 22, 2007

Comments and Fact Checks on Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Veto Threat

August 22, 2007

The Evils of Having an "Agenda" in Sacramento

August 22, 2007

"The Economic Losses from High School Dropouts in California" is our site of the day

August 22, 2007

Perata Unchained on the California Budget

August 22, 2007

Perata Proposes Establishing California Budget Reform Panel

August 22, 2007

Dramatic New Field Poll Shows Increasing Dissatisfaction with Current Health Insurance System Behind Increasing California Support for Single Payor Reform

August 22, 2007

Concern from Advocates for Disabled, Seniors, and Others About More Cuts As California State Budget Bill Heads To Governor Schwarzenegger

August 22, 2007

Schrag: Larger Questions for the University of California in the Wake of Dynes' Departure

August 21, 2007

Senate Republicans Held the California State Budget Hostage for 52 Days and Appear to Have Gotten Precious Little Ransom in Return

August 21, 2007

BREAKING NEWS: STATE BUDGET PASSES 27-13

August 21, 2007

Breaking News: California Senate in Process of Passing State Budget; Attorney General Jerry Brown Announces Settlement of Global Warming Suit with San Bernardino County

August 21, 2007

Did ES&S Sell Uncertified Voting Equipment To California Counties?

August 21, 2007

California Interrogation Reform Bill Will Prevent False Confessions

August 21, 2007

Negotiating 101 and the California Budget: It Isn't Supposed to be Metaphysical

August 21, 2007

The California State Budget: Comments From Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez Late Last Night

August 21, 2007

Republican Move to Change California's Electoral College Votes for President Has "Early Support"--But Less Than 50%-- According to Field Poll

August 20, 2007

Waiting for a California State Budget in the Capitol—Scenes from a Fellini Movie

August 20, 2007

California Budget Deal May be Near: CEQA Changes Demanded by Republican Senators May Be in the Offing

August 20, 2007

Parallels Between Blockage of California Budget by Senate Republicans and Ill-fated Gingrich Shutdown of Federal Government in 1995

August 20, 2007

California Must Not Be the World’s Dumping Ground for Toxic Toys and Child Care Products

August 20, 2007

Protecting the Health of California Workers: A Moral Obligation

August 20, 2007

California Eyewitness Identification Reform About to Land on Governor's Desk

August 19, 2007

Legendary Consumer Advocate Sylvia Siegel Dies--California Loses a Colorful Character

August 19, 2007

California Can Lead Nation in Green Tech Industry and Stimulate Economy With Bond Package

August 19, 2007

Turning a Blue State Partially Red: The So-Called Presidential Election Reform Act--A Clear Abuse of California's Initiative Process

August 19, 2007

The California Budget, Presidential Politics, and Health Care

August 19, 2007

A California Citizens' Victory Over Alcopops and Liquor Industry Targeting Of Teens

August 19, 2007

Expect a Challenge to California Member of Congress Dan Lungren

August 19, 2007

"Promises Kept" and California's Road Ahead to a Democratic President

August 18, 2007

Support Increases for Term Limit Reform Measure--Even When California Voters Are Told It Allows Current Legislators to Avoid Being Termed Out

August 18, 2007

Keeping California Kids Out of Gangs is Better Than Spending Billions Later on Incarceration

August 18, 2007

Durst: Front Loading Presidential Primaries Shows Preoccupation with "Me the People"

August 17, 2007

New Reports Spotlight Several Consumer Protections Missing in California’s “Wild, Wild West” Individual Market

August 17, 2007

Accountability for Obstruction of the California State Budget: Recall of Senator Denham and How the Process Can Be Made Better

August 17, 2007

2008. Clinton vs. Giuliani. A ‘Big Year for the Little People’?

August 17, 2007

Poll: California Poised to Elect Hillary Clinton Next President of the United States

August 17, 2007

Initiatives Filed to Protect Consumers and Allow Californians to Hold Corporations Accountable for Wrongdoing

August 17, 2007

"California Speaks": We Want Single Payer

August 17, 2007

Failure of California Endangered Species Act Compliance from Department of Water Resources Behind Director Leaving Troubled Department of Fish and Game?

August 16, 2007

California Supreme Court to Hear Same Sex Marriage Case: Why Domestic Partner Laws Are Not Enough

August 16, 2007

“Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2007” by the UC Davis is our site of the day

August 16, 2007

The Secure, Accurate and Fair Elections Act for California

August 16, 2007

When the Innocent Go to Prison in California, the Guilty Go Free

August 16, 2007

Do We Want a Mercenary Army in California?

August 16, 2007

Vacation Themed Rally for California Budget at the State Capitol

August 15, 2007

No California Budget, No Government? Lost the Last Election? None Dare Call it Obstructionism

August 15, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Water Board Says It Can't Protect Water Quality in California Delta, Central Valley!

August 15, 2007

California's Immigration Politics of the Early 90's, Goes National--It's Deja Vu All Over Again

August 15, 2007

Arbitrary Nature of California’s Policy on Who Can “Carry A Concealed Weapon” Exposed by Former Sacramento Sheriff Providing Gun Permit to Friend and Contributor

August 15, 2007

The California Democratic Council: "Winning Elections One Club at a Time"

August 15, 2007

New Initiative Would Cut Retirement for Nurses, Teachers, Firefighters and Peace Officers by up to 60%

August 14, 2007

"Hard Work and a Fair Shot: Helping California's Low-Income Working Families Make Ends Meet" is our site of the day

August 14, 2007

Tonight's Dinner? Central Valley Senator Jeff Denham (R-Modesto).

August 14, 2007

New Field Poll of California Voters on Budget: Most Say It's a Serious Problem and Tend to Blame Republicans

August 14, 2007

Republican State Senators Holding up the California Budget Should Get Their Facts Straight on California Environmental Laws and Who We Elected to Enforce Them

August 14, 2007

Reform the California Budget Process to Restore Majority Rule and Accountability

August 14, 2007

Will Insurance Commissioner Poizner Get at the Fraud Against Workers in California's Workers' Compensation System?

August 14, 2007

Get the Lead Out, So the California Condor, North America’s Largest Bird, Won't Just Exist on the Back of the Quarter

August 13, 2007

California State Budget Needed Now So Prenatal Health Clinics Can Remain Open

August 13, 2007

All Roads Still Lead to Rove

August 13, 2007

Republican Senators: Listen to Your Constituents, Represent California Values, and Pass the Budget

August 13, 2007

Political Reform Laws Face Sacramento Attacks in Three Stealth Bills

August 13, 2007

What Californians Should Do About Democratic Capitulation in Washington, D.C

August 13, 2007

"From Boom to Bust: Helping Families Prepare for the Rise in Subprime Mortgage Foreclosures" by the Center for American Progress is our site of the day

August 13, 2007

California Secretary of State Bowen's Decision on Diebold Will Preserve Democracy in San Diego

August 13, 2007

HASTA LA VISTA CHICO: Where Do Injured Workers Go for Treatment?

August 12, 2007

Finally--Schwarzenegger to Arouse Public on the California Budget

August 12, 2007

The Barriers to Health Care in California That Need to be Addressed

August 11, 2007

Schwarzenegger Director of Finance, Former Senate Republican Staffer, Says Budget Should Have Been Passed Weeks Ago

August 11, 2007

California's Risk for Floods--Some Factoids

August 11, 2007

Improving California’s Transportation Infrastructure

August 10, 2007

California’s Republican Director of Finance Targets G.O.P. Senator Denham’s Refusal to Support Governor’s Budget--“Hard to Understand”?!

August 10, 2007

Misleading Attacks on California Secretary of State Bowen’s Decision to Limit Electronic Voting

August 10, 2007

The Sierra Club’s New Blog, “Environmental Politics from California’s Capitol”, is our Site of the Day

August 10, 2007

Failure to Agree on the California State Budget: Obstinacy or Principle?

August 10, 2007

Rolling Back a Ronald Reagan Era Environmental Law: How the Message Now Getting Through on the California Budget Impasse May Help Us Later

August 10, 2007

Smart Growth--California’s Next Frontier in the Fight against Global Warming—and Cleaning Up the San Joaquin Valley Air Board

August 9, 2007

14 White Men Hold California Budget Hostage

August 9, 2007

Impact of California State Budget Delay on the Disabled and Seniors

August 9, 2007

Maldonado is No Moderate and His District Deserves Better: The Budget as an Example of Why We Should Fight for a Real Democratic Majority in California

August 9, 2007

AIDS/HIV, a Key California Issue in Today’s Democratic Presidential Candidates’ Debate in Los Angeles

August 9, 2007

DO ‘COMPETITIVE’ LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS PRODUCE MODERATE AND REASONABLE LAWMAKERS? SENATOR DENHAM PROVES THE OPPOSITE!

August 9, 2007

Representing His District: Abel Maldonado—The Only Republican Senator So Far to Vote for the California State Budget

August 8, 2007

Speaker Nunez Advises Senate Republican Leader to End to Budget “Blockade”, Reveals Assembly Democratic Caucus Unease with Budget Concessions Already Made

August 8, 2007

California State Budget Crisis: Fiscal Responsibility—More Than Just Balancing a Budget

August 8, 2007

California Voters Told to Trust Diebold, Not the Computer Experts--Now That's an Easy Choice!

August 8, 2007

Intel is Withdrawing the Ad—Now It Should Stop Supporting Ballot Measure to Destroy California’s Class Action System

August 8, 2007

Schrag: Corn Ethanol Subsidy a California Presidential Primary Issue?

August 7, 2007

Bridges That Need to be Repaired in California and the Nation—Taxes and Priorities

August 7, 2007

What Schwarzenegger Didn’t Get Trying to Work Cooperatively with the Bush Administration on the “Roadless Rule” Protecting California’s Forests and Wildlands

August 7, 2007

Effects of the California Budget Blockage on Our Readers

August 6, 2007

Four Years Later, Arnold’s Tonight Show Pledge Rings Hollow

August 6, 2007

Shadowy Figures and Deception Surround Republican Attempt to Change How Californians Award Electoral College Votes in Presidential Elections

August 6, 2007

What is Really Going on with the California State Budget—From the Perspective of a Former Legislator

August 6, 2007

Rotating Primaries: An Eternally Bad Idea

August 5, 2007

California Secretary of State Holds Firm on Voting Machine Integrity

August 5, 2007

A California Democrat Speaks Truth to Power

August 5, 2007

Recall Petitions Being Readied for Senator Jeff Denham, Republican Holdout on California State Budget

August 4, 2007

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Decertifies Diebold, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems--Late Submitted ES&S System “InkaVote Plus” Used in Los Angeles to be Reviewed

August 4, 2007

California Legislation Will Save Energy, Money, and the Environment

August 3, 2007

The Year of Living Dangerously in Health Reform in California

August 3, 2007

BEE COLUMNIST URGES FURTHER BUDGET DELAY--LEGISLATURE SHOULD ‘START OVER’ REGARDLESS OF CONSEQUENCES

August 3, 2007

Republicans Hold California Budget Hostage to Slow Progress on Global Warming

August 3, 2007

The Dam Truth about California Water!

August 3, 2007

POLL SHOWS VOTER ANXIETY ABOUT CORPORATE MISCONDUCT

August 3, 2007

HEY, THAT'S MY PUBLIC RESOURCE...PROPOSED WATER GIVE-AWAY

August 3, 2007

Peter Schrag: August—Time for Californians to Take a few French Lessons

August 2, 2007

LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PROTEST CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET DEADLOCK: A Prelude to How Many State Senators Will be Greeted When They Get Home

August 2, 2007

CEQA, GLOBAL WARMING, REPUBLICANS AND THE STATE BUDGET

August 2, 2007

No California State Budget Despite Defection of One Republican State Senator and Pledge from Governor Schwarzenegger to Reduce “Operating Deficit” to Zero by Line Item Vetoes

August 2, 2007

New Study Finds Health Care Proposals Insufficient to Protect Californians

August 2, 2007

Why Many Californians Don’t Trust the Vendors of Electronic Voting Systems and Election Officials Who Defend Them

August 1, 2007

Statement of Governor Schwarzenegger on Failure by California Senate to Pass State Budget

August 1, 2007

Perata Hopeful About Tonight’s Vote on California State Budget

August 1, 2007

Will Brinksmanship on California State Budget Come to an End in Tonight’s Senate Vote?

August 1, 2007

Largest Water Grant in U.S. Bureau of Reclamations History Set for Today: Delta, Fish, and California to Pay the Cost

August 1, 2007

California PUC Shortchanges Limited English Phone Consumers--Legislature Must Now Act and Pass AB 891

August 1, 2007

Simple Challenge to Electronic Voting Machines: Prove My Vote Was Counted Accurately

July 31, 2007

Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing Climate is our site of the day

July 31, 2007

Credible Evidence Shows Computer Based Voting Machines Have Security Flaws—Where Does This Take Us?

July 31, 2007

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WHO OPPOSE ELECTRONIC VOTING SUGGEST WE RETURN TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF ‘HANGING CHADS’

July 31, 2007

Half a Dozen California Members of Congress Wavering on Historic Vote to Raise Fuel Economy Car Standards, Needed to Curb Global Warming

July 31, 2007

San Joaquin Valley Voters View Air as Serious Health Problem and Want Stronger Action Taken By State Government

July 31, 2007

A Ballot Proposition Changing the Rules in California to Give Republicans a Better Chance to Keep the Presidency

July 31, 2007

Why Do Democratic City Councils Plan Housing That Republicans Will Live In?

July 30, 2007

The Governor's Birthday Present--With Love From His Party

July 30, 2007

Ignoring the Lessons of History, Dan Walters Urges Appeasement of Republicans to Resolve Budget Deadlock

July 30, 2007

Today's Hearing on Electronic Voting Machines in California

July 30, 2007

What's on California's Mind? A Statewide Survey Quiz

July 30, 2007

Are We Witnessing a New Nativism in California?

July 30, 2007

ANTHONY SAUER HONORED FOR WORK ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DISABILITIES

July 29, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

July 29, 2007

FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS AND THE GENERAL

July 29, 2007

HARRY POTTER ON CALIFORNIA FLOOD POLICY

July 28, 2007

SACRAMENTO BEE SHOULD BE AWARDED ‘CHEAP SHOT’ LAURELS FOR ATTACK ON STAFF OF THE LEGISLATURE

July 28, 2007

Why California Should Fully Fund Pre-School Education

July 28, 2007

Arnold The Fish Terminator: Schwarzenegger Campaigns For Delta Canal, More Dams

July 27, 2007

Surprises in Independent Computer Expert Findings Just Released in "Top-to-Bottom Voting System Review" of California Secretary of State Bowen

July 27, 2007

The Latest on the California Budget from Senator Perata

July 27, 2007

Plug in America is our site of the day

July 27, 2007

Breaking the Media Filter on Governor Schwarzenegger

July 27, 2007

THE ‘UNIT RULE’, OUTLAWED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY 50 YEARS AGO, RESURFACES AS A TOOL TO SUPPRESS MODERATES IN THE G.O.P.

July 27, 2007

Senate Republican Budget Move to Gut the California Environmental Quality Act Raises Larger Questions

July 27, 2007

COVERAGE OF THE L.A. MAYOR’S PRIVATE LIFE REFLECTS POORLY ON JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS

July 27, 2007

Memo to the California State Senate on the California Environmental Quality Act

July 27, 2007

The California Democratic Party Position on Net Neutrality and Affordable High Speed Internet

July 26, 2007

The Smoke and Mirrors Behind California Budget Proposals to Cut Transit to the Core

July 26, 2007

"Arnold a big spender? Hardly" by Former Senate Republican Leader Jim Brulte is our site of the day

July 26, 2007

California State Budget Crisis: Many Programs and Services Won't Be Paid, Including Those for Seniors, Children and Adults With Disabilities

July 26, 2007

Behind the California's Budget Delay: Republican Senators Want Attorney General Brown to Delay Enforcing California Global Warming Laws Unitil 2012

July 26, 2007

PPIC Poll Shows Californians Very Concerned About Global Warming and Air Pollution and Want Stronger Action by State Government

July 26, 2007

Bush to Bring His Anti-Children’s Health Care Platform to Annual ALEC Meeting: California Co-Chairs Senator Hollingsworth and Assembly Member Runner Called to Denounce Opposition to SCHIP

July 25, 2007

California Republican Senators Target Kids of Welfare Recipients and Public Transit for Biggest Proposed Budget Cuts

July 25, 2007

Senate Republicans Propose Abandoning Voters’ Drug Treatment Program in California Budget Fight

July 25, 2007

Will the California PUC Provide All Telephone Consumers Equal Protection on Friday?

July 25, 2007

The Importance of the California Environmental Quality Act to Global Warming: Why Changes Should be Rejected in the Budget Battle Today

July 25, 2007

Schrag: California Water Policy, Dams, and the Delta More Important than the State Budget

July 25, 2007

California Leafy Green Industry’s Marketing Agreement Will Not Ensure Nation’s Salad Bowl is Safe

July 25, 2007

California Needs to Create a Judiciary that Reflects its Rich Diversity

July 24, 2007

GLOBAL WARMING ACTION ENDANGERED IN STATE BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS: DON’T LET THE OSTRICHES WIN!

July 24, 2007

Preview of Tomorrow's Budget Battle: Ackerman Reveals that Global Warming Regulations, California's Environmental Laws, and Tying the Hands of Attorney General Jerry Brown Are Part of What Senate Republicans Are After

July 24, 2007

Leafy Green Watch is our site of the day

July 24, 2007

Diesel Pollution from Construction Equipment: An Opportunity for the Air Board to Build a Cleaner California by Rulemaking This Week

July 24, 2007

Analysis of Federal Court Decisions on Overcrowding of California's Prisons and Medical Care

July 23, 2007

Federal Court Judges Order Convening of Panel to Consider California Prison Population Cap and Other Remedies for Unconstitutional Overcrowding

July 23, 2007

Is the California Budget Being Held Up So Republican Senators Can Show How Tough They Can Be?

July 23, 2007

TOSSING THE TOXIC TRAIN: NEW LEGISLATION AIMS TO LIMIT HEALTH HAZARDS IN CALIFORNIA

July 23, 2007

Addressing the Root Causes of Gang Activity in California

July 22, 2007

The California State Budget: Structural Problems and Real Impacts on People

July 22, 2007

SEE THE HEADLINES? SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK CALIFORNIA’S BUDGET. (WELL, THAT CAN BE FIXED!)

July 22, 2007

California Budget Impasse Belongs to Senate Republicans and is Beginning to Rot Like Trash Not Picked Up

July 22, 2007

Perata Letter to Senate Republican Leader Dick Ackerman on the California State Budget

July 22, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

July 21, 2007

The Inside Story: Perata in His Own Words on the California Budget Process and Results

July 21, 2007

Dramatic Moment in California State Budget Impasse: Perata Tells Republican Senators to Write Budget Democrats Can Support, Saying "We Have No Freaking Idea Where You Want to Go"

July 21, 2007

California State Senators Spend the Night Together--Still No Budget

July 20, 2007

Perata to California Senate: “We’ll Be Here Til We Get a Budget … We Will Be Around to Talk About Pancakes and Sausages for Breakfast”

July 20, 2007

Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez on the California State Budget

July 20, 2007

The Stanford Executive Sessions on Sentencing and Corrections "California Corrections Reform: State/Local Partnerships" is our site of the day

July 20, 2007

California Assembly Passes State Budget with Republicans Getting $1.2 Billion Taken From Transit, 4 Month Delay in COLA for Disabled and Seniors, Cut in Prop 36 Drug Treatment Funds

July 20, 2007

Initial Analysis of the Budget Passed by the California State Assembly

July 20, 2007

MONEY MATTERS: CALIFORNIA STATE BUDGET PASSES--SCHIP BILL, IMPORTANT TO CALIFORNIA KIDS' HEALTH, PASSES U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE

July 20, 2007

THE CALIFORNIA DRIVE FOR SUCCESS: UNDER THE HOOD OF AN EFFECTIVE FLOOD POLICY REFORM PACKAGE

July 20, 2007

Miller and Rahall Press Interior for Response to Congressional Inquiry over Interference with California Delta Fish

July 19, 2007

My Bet is for a California State Budget This Weekend--Something's Happening Here, What It is Ain't Exactly Clear

July 19, 2007

The "2006 Consumer Federation of California Scorecard for State Lawmakers" is our site of the day

July 19, 2007

California Legislators Look for Remedies to Growing Homeless Problem

July 19, 2007

A Conversation in the Park with Republican Senate Leader Ackerman on the California Budget

July 19, 2007

GUN CONTROL ADVOCATES ROLL THE DICE (STUPIDLY!) ON LIKELY LANDMARK ‘RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS’ SECOND AMENDMENT CASE

July 19, 2007

Governor Backs Out of Deal to Not Test 7 Year Olds in California

July 19, 2007

Making the Family and Medical Leave Act Work for All Californians

July 19, 2007

Homelessness and Health Care in California: The Chicken and the Egg

July 18, 2007

No Vote on the California State Budget, But Some Interesting Developments: Tasty Morsels from the Hallways of the Capitol

July 18, 2007

Schwarzenegger Nominee to Head California Air Board, Mary Nichols, Holds Green Book Up and Pledges to Faithfully Implement AB 32, California's Global Warming Law

July 18, 2007

California G.O.P. Legislative Leaders “Slip Out the Back Door” to Avoid Media Questions About Proposed $400,000,000 Cut to Schools?

July 18, 2007

Another Ballot Initiative Attempt to Deny Justice to the Average Californian

July 17, 2007

California State Budget: If Anybody Knows How It Will Come Out, They Aren't Talking Now--But Will Have Some Explaining to do Tomorrow

July 17, 2007

I'm Managing a Netroots Campaign Against California Member of Congress Gary Miller

July 17, 2007

TWO MONTHS TO GO ON CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE BILLS THIS YEAR

July 17, 2007

"Increasing Latino Participation in the Nursing Profession: Best Practices at California Nursing Programs" is our site of the day

July 17, 2007

ARIZONA REPUBLICANS STRIKE!--IMMIGRATION BILL THREATENS TO BANKRUPT STATE BUSINESSES--IS CALIFORNIA NEXT?

July 17, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger Misses Opportunity to Fix Big Problems in the Delta

July 17, 2007

Same-Sex Marriage Bill Passes Key California Senate Committee--Likely to Be on Governor's Desk Again

July 17, 2007

Delegate Selection and Net Neutrality Top California Democrats' Agenda at Meeting of the Party

July 16, 2007

Central Valley Football Follies--Or “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”

July 16, 2007

REPUBLICANS BLOCK THE GOVERNOR’S BUDGET – AGAIN – TO LEVERAGE NON-BUDGET ISSUES

July 16, 2007

California Legislators Request Cut in Funding of New Judges Because of Governor's Lack of Diversity Among Appointees

July 16, 2007

California Commission Issues Important Ruling--New Imported Gas Cannot Worsen Air--Implications for LNG

July 16, 2007

CALIFORNIA’S REAL GERRYMANDERS TAKE PLACE AT THE COUNTY

July 16, 2007

Medical Marijuana -- A Progress Report

July 15, 2007

Our Back Fence: A New Online Magazine for San Diego East County Progressives

July 15, 2007

BUSH FREES CRONY, THEN HAS HMONG WAR HERO ARRESTED FOR ANTI-COMMUNIST ‘PLOT’--REPUBLICAN JUSTICE??

July 15, 2007

While California Dreams: A weekly update on the goings-on in Sacramento

July 15, 2007

John Garamendi, Jr. Decides Not to Run for Senate Seat

July 14, 2007

Racial Gaps Getting Buried Under the Trash--Can We Have a Discussion in California?

July 14, 2007

Californians Urged to Continue the Fight for Comprehensive Immigration Reform

July 14, 2007

Presidential Politics and Net Neutrality Big Topics at California Democratic Party Executive Board Meeting

July 13, 2007

"Broadband for All? Gaps in California’s Broadband Adoption and Availability," by the PPIC is our site of the day

July 13, 2007

Garcia vs. Parra--How Republicans Don't Serve Their Constituents II

July 13, 2007

Playing a Game of Chicken in the Dark on the California State Budget

July 13, 2007

Some Thoughts as Electoral College Reform is About to be Passed Again in California

July 13, 2007

What’s In a Name? California Legislation to Ensure Equality in Name Change Options

July 13, 2007

Transportation Committee's Clean Sweep on Bills to Clean California's Dirty Air and a "Flood" of Good News…For Now

July 12, 2007

"Health Coverage Proposals in California: Impact on Businesses" by the U.C. Berkeley Institute for Research on Labor and Employment is our site of the day

July 12, 2007

Democratic Health Bill Passes Senate Committee After Lengthy Debate: Stage Being Set for Negotiations with Governor Schwarzenegger

July 12, 2007

Legislation to Clean San Joaquin Valley Air--Among the Worst in the Country--Passes Key Committee Vote

July 12, 2007

Why California Health Insurance Premium Regulation Failed and Employee Mandate Passed Last Night

July 12, 2007

Perata Sends Schwarzenegger Strongly Worded Message on Prisons as Committee Approves New Corrections Head

July 12, 2007

Why We Don't Have a California Budget: Republican Naysayers Play Games While We Get Lassie vs. Bob Barker

July 12, 2007

New Study Exposes California Industries with Lowest Worker Health Coverage-- Restaurant and Hotel at the Bottom at 20%

July 11, 2007

Where Have All the Scientists Gone? Coliform and What Californians Don't Know About Recycled Water That Will Hurt Them

July 11, 2007

Why Ain't Schwarzenegger Got No Environmental Coattails in his Party?

July 11, 2007

"The State of Health Insurance in California", released today by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research is our site of the day

July 11, 2007

California Prison Medical Court Receiver Robert Sillen Bares All Before Sacramento Press Club

July 11, 2007

Schrag on Schwarzenegger, Damage Control, and the California Air Resources Board

July 10, 2007

Why is the University of California Afraid of a Free Election for Its Pension Advisory Board?

July 10, 2007

Bill to Require Study Before Liquified Natural Gas Terminals Are Approved Moves Forward in Assembly

July 10, 2007

Banner Day on Global Warming in California: Senate Package Passes Assembly Committees, Including Two Bills Defeated Last Week

July 10, 2007

REPUBLICAN POSTER BOY ACKNOWLEDGES PATRONIZING THE “D.C. MADAM” - U.S. SENATOR REVEALS, “SERIOUS SIN”!

July 10, 2007

Progressive California Candidates: Learn How to Win at DFA Training Academy

July 9, 2007

Key Global Warming Measures on Life Support in Assembly Transportation Committee Today

July 9, 2007

Bill Aimed at "Diploma Mills" Advances in California State Assembly

July 9, 2007

Welcome Reporter Hayley Leventhal to the California Progress Report

July 9, 2007

"Sicko" in California and the Nation: Universal Healthcare Advocates Make Sure the Message Gets Across

July 8, 2007

A Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger from His Former Chair of the Air Resources Board

July 8, 2007

Testimony of Catherine Witherspoon, Former Executive Officer of the California Air Resources Board, on the Schwarzenegger Administration's Interference with Implementation of Global Warming Measures

July 8, 2007

While California Dreams: Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

July 7, 2007

Departed Chair and Executive Officer of California Air Resources Board Present Powerful Testimony on Schwarzenegger Administration Interference in Implementation of AB 32 on Global Warming

July 7, 2007

Fixed Terms and Legislative Appointment of Some California Air Resources Board Members May Result from Hearings

July 7, 2007

Speaker Nunez Testifies At Assembly Committee Hearing on AB 32 Implementation and Air Board Firing and Resignation

July 7, 2007

The Importance of Reducing Carbon Footprints One Californian at a Time

July 7, 2007

FIRINGS, FLOODS, AND FOREST FIRES– AN ACTION PACKED WEEK IN CALIFORNIA

July 6, 2007

Mary Nichols is a Start: What the Governor and CARB Should Do to Clear the Air

July 6, 2007

Police Accountability Bill Stalled – It's Time for Speaker Nunez to Speak Up

July 6, 2007

The High Cost of College Textbooks and a California Solution

July 5, 2007

The 2007-2008 State Budget Preliminary Conference Report is our site of the day

July 5, 2007

"Blue Shield, Blue Cross, Don't Kill My Wife"--A Powerful Case in Support of SB 840 and the Need for Health Insurance Reform in California

July 5, 2007

AB 1430 IS A MODEST PROPOSAL THAT SHOULD BE PASSED

July 5, 2007

ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE PASSES SB 840 AND OTHER MEASURES

July 4, 2007

Senate Confirmation Hearing on New California Air Board Chief to Center on Implementation of Landmark AB 32 Greenhouse Gas Law

July 4, 2007

A California Health Care Advocate's Take on Sicko

July 4, 2007

Declaring Independence From Insurers, Oil Companies and iPhone

July 4, 2007

Thoughts on July 4 From Bob Mulholland

July 3, 2007

Mixed Results for Clean Air and Climate Change Legislation in California Assembly: Major Bills Die in Transportation Committee

July 3, 2007

California Assembly Committee Readies Hearing on Schwarzenegger's "Global Warming Gate" as Ex Air Board Officials Prepare to Tell All on Friday

July 3, 2007

California Gas Stations Admit 'Hot Fuel' Ripoff and Put Decal on Pumps --Legislature Should Take Action

July 3, 2007

Klamath Water Users and Tribes Negotiate Removal of Warren Buffett’s Dams That Poison Local Communities and Result in Public Health Warnings

July 3, 2007

CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL SYSTEM AT A CROSSROADS

July 2, 2007

The Life & Times Blog of KCET is our site of the day

July 2, 2007

California Assembly Caves in to Police Threats on Your Right to Know About Officer Misconduct--SB 1019 Won't Get Another Hearing as Promised

July 2, 2007

Bill to Gut Local Campaign Finance Laws Blasted by League of Women Voters, Common Cause, and California Clean Money Campaign

July 1, 2007

Mum's the Word About Governor Schwarzenegger's Speech to California District Attorney Association--Why?

July 1, 2007

Peter Schrag: Supreme Court's Decision on School Desegregation Will Have Less Impact in California Because of Prop 209

July 1, 2007

Green Giant Falls: Schwarzenegger Fires Global Warming Tough Guy

July 1, 2007

While California Dreams- Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

June 30, 2007

A Balanced, Fair, and Responsible California Budget Ready for Senate and Assembly Floor Votes

June 30, 2007

California Can Do More to Combat Gang Violence

June 29, 2007

Attempt to Change Title and Summary of Term Limits Initiative Summarily Rejected by California Court of Appeals

June 29, 2007

Keep Program for Homeless with Serious Mental Illness in the California Budget

June 29, 2007

"Bloomberg": Another Reason Why California Should Reform the Electoral College

June 29, 2007

Surprise Attack on California's Environmental Laws--And What You Can Do About It

June 29, 2007

Horse Racing Reforms Needed to Protect a Great California Tradition From Conflicts of Interest

June 29, 2007

California Responsible For 1 out of 5 New Inmates in the U.S. in Prison Last Year

June 29, 2007

Congressional Hearings on Vice President Cheney’s Role in Northern California Klamath River Water Policy That Caused Largest Salmon Kill in U.S. History

June 28, 2007

Assembly Approves 5 of 6 Tribal Gaming Compacts After Closed Door Meetings and Nonbinding Side Agreements Are Passed

June 28, 2007

HIGH DEDUCTIBLES WOULD WIPE OUT MANY MIDDLE-CLASS CALIFORNIANS

June 28, 2007

New PPIC Poll: Californians on Immigration, Health Care, Iraq, Abortion, Same Sex Marriage, and Presidential Primary (Clinton and Giuliani Lead)

June 28, 2007

VOTERS SUPPORT IMMIGRATION REFORM – CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL

June 28, 2007

Romero Predicts Three Federal Judge Panel Will Be Appointed--One That May Cap California's Prison Population

June 28, 2007

George Will, Is There Something In Your Eye? The Truth About Oakland's Ban on Hate Speech in the Workplace

June 27, 2007

A 23 Year, 19,500 Slot Machine, $60 Billion Casino Expansion in California Could Be Voted On Tomorrow

June 27, 2007

California’s Leaders Risk Gaining Nothing While Letting The Five Wealthiest Tribes Walk Away with the Bank

June 27, 2007

Police Transparency Bill May Be Dead Without Even a Vote in California Assembly Committee

June 27, 2007

A Clean Energy Future for California Will Need More Than Market Forces

June 27, 2007

Peter Schrag: Lessons to be Learned by California in Teaching English

June 27, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger's Worst Possible Rerun: Energy Deregulation

June 27, 2007

Laura Richardson Will Be Elected to Congress on August 21: What This Means for California

June 27, 2007

Class Size in California Matters, of Course!

June 26, 2007

California Fishermen Target Water Policies

June 26, 2007

New Poll Shows Californians Strongly Favor Legal Status for Undocumented or Illegal Immigrants

June 26, 2007

Demagoguery About California's Public Pension System

June 26, 2007

SiCKO Brings Single-Payer to the Dinner Table

June 25, 2007

Home Security and Expanded Federal Authority to Police Immigration Threaten the Second Amendment and Other Rights

June 25, 2007

While We Wait for State Budget: Lots of Action in Sacramento on Politics and Policy-- and a Big Court Hearing This Week

June 25, 2007

Analysis of New California Poll That Shows Clinton and Giuliani Still Leading in State's Presidential Primary--What Do the Numbers Really Mean?

June 25, 2007

“VOTE CAGING" – YET ANOTHER DEPLORABLE REPUBLICAN PARTY TACTIC TO SUPPRESS PARTICIPATION BY THE POOR

June 25, 2007

Are You Contributing to Bad Environmental and Consumer Laws--and the Republican Party--When You Buy a Car?

June 25, 2007

“CONTRACTING OUT” WITH A VENGEANCE - G.O.P. CHAIR PUTS

June 24, 2007

WHILE CALIFORNIA DREAMS

June 23, 2007

California Air Board Chastised Over Weak Approach on Clean Air by Schwarzenegger and Garamendi; Mixed Reviews on Implementing Global Warming Requirements of AB 32

June 23, 2007

Eminent Domain: Protecting the Homes and Businesses of Californians From Government Seizure Discussed in Democratic Radio Address

June 22, 2007

Public Outcry: "Garamendi, Name the Smelt!"

June 22, 2007

California Air Resources Board Has Barely Scratched the Surface of Recycling Measures Needed to Implement AB 32 on Global Warming

June 22, 2007

Lesson for Centrist Democrats' Reaction to 'Sicko' Movie: The Insurance Industry Will Oppose You No Matter What You Do

June 22, 2007

A Spanish Lesson for Schwarzenegger and All of California

June 22, 2007

Analysis and Background on New Combined California Health Care Bill

June 22, 2007

Healthcare Industry’s Massive Spending in Presidential Campaigns Tells A Lot About What They are Doing in California on State Reforms

June 22, 2007

Another View on the California Democrats' United Health Care Plan: No Individual Mandates

June 22, 2007

I love you, Chuck Calderon

June 21, 2007

The Play: Mega Health Care Bill for California Lined Up as Leaders of State Senate and Assembly Combine Provisions into AB 8

June 21, 2007

RIGS TO WRECKS? CALIFORNIA TO RE-ASSESS INDUSTRY RESPONSIBILITY FOR DECOMMISSIONED OFFSHORE RIGS

June 21, 2007

Prison Crowding Makes States Look to Rehabilitation

June 21, 2007

Strategy to Reduce Drug Injection-Related AIDS in California Gains Support

June 20, 2007

Federal Court Receiver in Charge of California State Prison Medical System Reports to Judge on Progress Being Made

June 20, 2007

"Aiming Higher: Results from a State Scorecard on Health System Performance" is our site of the day

June 20, 2007

Beware of the Recycled Water Industry on Water Safety and E. Coli in California

June 20, 2007

Fewer Voices in Mainstream Media on California News: With Layoffs Announced Yesterday, San Jose Mercury News Will Be Half the Size It Was 7 Years Ago

June 20, 2007

No, Schwarzenegger Can't Run for Vice President Either

June 20, 2007

Peter Schrag: Despite Pinched View of Opponents to Immigration Bill It's Still Not a Good Idea When Looking at the Details

June 19, 2007

Casino Workers Rally for Free Choice Rights in Sacramento the Same Day as U.S. Senate Hears Employee Free Choice Act

June 19, 2007

CRIMINALIZATION OF POLITICS, WHILE APPEALING TO CYNICS, IS NOT VIRTUOUS

June 19, 2007

“The 2006-07 California Report Card: The State of the State’s Children” is our site of the day

June 19, 2007

Advanced Imaging of California Precincts Shows Nuanced Landscape

June 19, 2007

As Summer Comes to Central Valley, Assembly, Senate and House Races Warm Up

June 18, 2007

"Snapshot: Health Insurance: Can Californians Afford It? 2007 Edition" released by the California Health Care Foundation is our site of the day

June 18, 2007

SHOULD NON-VOTERS BE ‘SHAMED’ INTO DOING THEIR DUTY?

June 18, 2007

Unhealthy and Unsafe Flood Cars Still for Sale in California as Republican State Senators and "Moderate" Dems Cave to Auto Dealers and Insurance Industry

June 18, 2007

California Dreamin'- of Immigration Reform that Works

June 17, 2007

CAN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VOTERS BE RELIED ON TO PROTECT THE SAN JOAQUIN DELTA – IF THEY NO LONGER NEED IT TO CONVEY WATER SOUTH?

June 17, 2007

Investment Not Resentment for Undocumented

June 17, 2007

Southern California Grocery Workers--When Unions Prosper, America Prospers

June 16, 2007

Progress Made on the California State Budget: Your Money and Values

June 16, 2007

Will "Convenience Voting" Make Polling Places Go the Way of the Horse?

June 15, 2007

"State Budget - 2007" from Budget Conference Committee Chair John Laird is our site of the day

June 15, 2007

What is Really Going On in the California Budget Negotiations?

June 15, 2007

Schwarzenegger Confirms Worst Fears of Fishing and Environmental Groups in Supporting Peripheral Canal

June 15, 2007

Tragic Misunderstanding By Governor May Kill High Speed Rail in California

June 15, 2007

Whatever Happened to Package of Bills on Refinery Practices and Gasoline Prices in California?

June 15, 2007

ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO: CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENT BILLS (MOSTLY) SURVIVE MAJOR LEGISLATIVE HURDLE

June 15, 2007

California Coalition Against Sexual Assault Gives Extraordinary Activist Award to Assemblymember Leno

June 14, 2007

Schwarzenegger and the California Republican Party on Immigrants: Canadiense, si! Español, no!

June 14, 2007

Sacramento Politicians Should Use Gaming Compacts to Protect California Election Law

June 14, 2007

Delta Smelt: First Extinction of a Species Deliberately Caused by State of California for Subsidized Water for Crops?

June 14, 2007

Values of a Generation of Americans Missed in Retrospective Articles on San Francisco's "Summer of Love"

June 14, 2007

The Politics of SiCKO: How It Fits in What is Happening in California

June 13, 2007

Schrag on Schwarzenegger at the Exact Midpoint of His Tenure as Governor--Is Our Action Figure Taking Care of California's Mundane Business?

June 13, 2007

Assembly Democrats in California: Hang in There For the Casino Workers, There's National Labor Issues At Stake

June 13, 2007

Gun Shows in Nevada, California, and the United States in Light of UC Davis Study

June 13, 2007

California Republican Congressman "Earmarks" Millions of Our Tax Dollars for Contributor Who Designs Aircraft Unwanted by Pentagon

June 13, 2007

A Thumbs Up in Rubber Gloves Review of Michael Moore's New Documenatary Film "Sicko"

June 12, 2007

Michael Moore and “Sicko” Take Sacramento By Storm: Powerful Testimony and Press Conference Before Film Is Even Shown

June 12, 2007

HIGH STAKES GAMBLE FOR TRIBAL CASINO WORKERS: SACRAMENTO’S LAST CHANCE TO PROTECT THEIR HEALTH AND SAFETY

June 12, 2007

June 12, 2007

"We're All Journalists Now"--A Book to Be Released Tomorrow is a "Must Read" for Anyone Who Cares About Future of the Old Press and the New Citizen Journalism

June 12, 2007

UNREGULATED ‘GUN SHOWS’ – WHAT HAPPENS IN NEVADA DOES NOT STAY IN NEVADA!

June 12, 2007

Here in California While Rome Burns We're Looking at Paris

June 12, 2007

Dozens of Health-related Bills Pass Full California Assembly and Senate, Head to Second House

June 12, 2007

California Young Democrats: What Off-Year?

June 12, 2007

Implementation of AB 32 on Global Warming Would Be More Difficult Under Proposed Exemption of Methane Gas from Market Cap

June 11, 2007

"Greenhouse Gas: Meaningful Emission Reduction through Waste Prevention and Recycling" is our site of the day

June 11, 2007

How Do Californians Get Their News About the State?

June 11, 2007

YOU BETCH’YER HEALTH IN THE GOLDEN STATE

June 11, 2007

The California Push For Recycled Water is Complete With Pathogens Like E. coli

June 11, 2007

War of Words Targets Civil Justice System in California and the Weapon is Fear

June 10, 2007

WHILE CALIFORNIA DREAMS: A Weekly Update on the Goings-on in Sacramento

June 10, 2007

"There They Go Again"--Only This Time It's the California Assembly Republicans

June 10, 2007

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH SCHWARZENEGGER ON HIS FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT PROPOSAL

June 9, 2007

Those Suffering From Port Pollution Have Reason to Cheer as Lowenthal Bill Passes Senate Despite Heavy Opposition

June 9, 2007

California Assembly Caves to Auto Dealers on Clean Car Bill--Top Priority in Achieving Goals of AB 32 on Global Warming

June 9, 2007

Restoring Urban Parks in California Under Prop 84

June 8, 2007

"Gambling on the Future: Should California Privatize the State Lottery?" is our site of the day

June 8, 2007

LEGISLATION TO MAKE HEALTH INSURANCE MORE AFFORDABLE PASSES ASSEMBLY DESPITE STRONG OPPOSITION FROM INSURANCE INDUSTRY

June 8, 2007

California Assembly Passes Bill to Ban Cancer-Causing Fire Retardants in Furniture, Pillows and Comforters

June 8, 2007

'CLEAN MONEY' PILOT PROGRAM PASSES FULL ASSEMBLY

June 8, 2007

California Senate At Half Time (Almost): Passage of Redistricting, Term Limits, Campaign Reporting, Port Air Pollution, Trans Fat, Pharmaceutical, Global Warming, and Other Bills

June 8, 2007

Compassionate Choices With Love From a California Assemblymember

June 7, 2007

Schwarzenegger to Get Two Health Care Bills--Democratic Leaders of Senate and Assembly Announce They Will Meld Their Bills into One—Nunez Vows Kuehl Bill Will Also Go to Gov

June 7, 2007

Deceptive Ad in Sacramento Bee by Washington DC-based Lobby Group Representing Detroit's Big Three Automakers as Assembly Revotes on Clean Car Discount Bill

June 7, 2007

California Assembly in Session Until Late at Night, Passes "Clean Money," Flood Control, Chiropractor Board Reform, and Pet Neutering Bills

June 7, 2007

California Senate Update: Passage of One Health Bill Yesterday and Another Expected Today--And Dozens of Other Bills

June 7, 2007

Crucial Vote on Cell Phone Consumer Protection Bill Today

June 6, 2007

The Debate on Senator Kuehl’s Universal Health Care Plan Which Passed California Senate Today

June 6, 2007

We Can’t Let Them Rewrite History to Defeat AB 1554--Health Care Rate Regulation--on Eve of Assembly Vote

June 6, 2007

Kuehl Single Payer Health Bill Passes California State Senate While Dozens of Major Bills Fly Off Both Floors of the Legislature

June 6, 2007

California Senate Votes to Place “Vote Us Out of Iraq” Proposition on the Presidential Primary Ballot

June 6, 2007

GOP ‘ REDISTICTING REFORM’ WOULD RESULT IN COURT-DRAWN PLAN – A SCHEME REPEATEDLY REJECTED BY CALIFORNIA VOTERS

June 6, 2007

Productive Day in the California Assembly: Bills Passed on Gay Marriage, High School Exit Exam Alternatives, Toxics in Kids' Products, Green Buildings

June 6, 2007

Comprehensive Plan to Reduce California's Flood Risk in the Balance--AB 5 Needs 5 More Assembly Votes to Pass

June 6, 2007

California Sentencing Reform Bill to be Voted on Today by State Assembly

June 6, 2007

Mark Leno Ends the Suspense on Clean Money

June 6, 2007

Groundbreaking Plastic and Marine Debris Reduction Bill up for Assembly Floor Vote This Week

June 5, 2007

Keep California Moving and Reduce Greenhouse Gases by Supporting Transit

June 5, 2007

California Senate Passes Global Warming, Water, Delta Protection Bills and Other Landmark Legislation

June 5, 2007

Stepping up to the Food Stamp Challenge in California

June 5, 2007

Clean Money and Fair Elections Act to California Assembly Floor

June 5, 2007

California State Assembly Dispenses With 117 Bills as Speaker Meets With Tribes to Try to Reach Agreement on Casino Compacts

June 5, 2007

Nervous Democrats May Hand Victory to Religious Right in Sacramento on AB 374, "The California Compassionate Choices Act"

June 5, 2007

Threats of Political Reprisals Denounced as California Senate Passes Bill to Give Public Access to Police Disicpline Records

June 4, 2007

“COMPETITIVE” ASSEMBLY SEATS IN CALIFORNIA – IS REDISTRICTING REFORM NEEDED?

June 4, 2007

We Need To Require Spaying and Neutering of Pets in California and To Pass AB 1634 This Week

June 4, 2007

California Needs to Pass AB 493 Before Friday's Deadline To Combat Global Warming Because Bush Administration is Failing to Act

June 4, 2007

WHEN ALL FIREARMS ARE ‘MICRO STAMPED’, ILLEGAL ALIENS WILL

June 4, 2007

Bills to Ban Toxic Chemicals in California Are Among Ones to Watch This Week

June 4, 2007

Deadline Week for Over 450 Bills on the Floor of California Legislature--Including Universal Health Care

June 3, 2007

The SafeClimate Carbon Footprint Calculator is our site of the day

June 3, 2007

Pat and Jerry and the Brown Legacy in California

June 3, 2007

Health Insurer Cost Curb Takes Major Step in California Legislature--Vote This Week on Assembly Floor

June 2, 2007

California Should Require “Microstamping” of Semiautomatic Handguns So Law Enforcement Can Arrest Violent Criminals

June 2, 2007

Victory for the Fish: State Stops Pumping to Save Delta Smelt

June 2, 2007

For Clinton It's All About Feb 5th and California, Not New Hampshire or Iowa

June 1, 2007

Blooming a Grassroots Coalition…To Take Back Red California

June 1, 2007

A Dying Request of Rita Castellano to the California State Assembly: Please Pass AB 374

June 1, 2007

Michael Moore's Documentary "Sicko" Premiers in Sacramento as Filmmaker Makes a House Call at the Capitol to Boost Single Payer Health Care Reform

May 31, 2007

Breaking News: State Water Project Pumps That Export Delta Water to 25 Million Californians Shut Down Because of Failure to Comply With Endangered Species Act

May 31, 2007

Appropriations Committees in California Consider Record Number of Over 800 Bills on "Suspense File" Today

May 31, 2007

Making State Dollars Go Farther for Planned Parenthood and Neighborhood Health Clinics

May 31, 2007

Californians Want Higher Taxes and More Services and Other Findings of PPIC Poll State Revenues and Budget

May 31, 2007

California Voters Support Term Limit and Redistricting Changes According to New PPIC Poll: What These Early Numbers Really Mean

May 31, 2007

Help All California Students Dream

May 31, 2007

EPA Testimony of California Speaker of the Assembly Fabian Nunez on Fuel Efficiency Standards and Federal Waiver

May 30, 2007

Peter Schrag: Take California High School Graduation Statistics With a Grain of Salt and Watch the Hidden Agendas

May 30, 2007

California Big Agriculture's $100 Million Energy Subsidy

May 30, 2007

With the Decline of Traditional Journalism in California There is a Challenge

May 30, 2007

Clinton Campaign Memo Shows Hope for Latino Vote After L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Endorsement

May 30, 2007

Stockton is Not the Secret--It's Happening and It's Democratic!

May 30, 2007

Lawrence Livermore Lab Case Tests Public’s Right to Know

May 29, 2007

"Ensuring an Adequate Health Workforce: Improving State Nursing Programs" is our site of the day

May 29, 2007

Los Angeles Times Buying Out 56 Reporters' Contracts--Will Labor and Economic Justice Stories Go Uncovered?

May 29, 2007

Preview of What National Redistricting Expert Will Tell California Assembly Elections Hearing Tomorrow

May 29, 2007

Trip to Canada Shows California Government, Including Governor Schwarzenegger and Elected Officeholders, Has a Real Border Problem

May 29, 2007

Getting Voters Mobilized in California: Some Useful Research Findings

May 29, 2007

ATM Watch: Democratic Presidential Candidates Come Back to California for a Withdrawal

May 28, 2007

What California Health Care Reform is BlueCross afraid of?

May 27, 2007

Scientists Warn Exposure to Common Chemicals Cause Health Problems for Babies Later in Life: What This Means for California on Health and Environmental Policies

May 26, 2007

California Assembly Has Its Newest Member—Democrat Felipe Fuentes—Just in Time for Budget and Key Votes

May 26, 2007

Just and Pragmatic Immigration Reform Must Include a Path to Citizenship

May 25, 2007

SCHWARZENEGGER CANCELS MEETING WITH CONSERVATIONISTS: DELTA FISH SPECIES GOING EXTINCT...LET'S NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT IT!

May 25, 2007

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH ON ‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’: “YOU CAN’T KICK THEM OUT”!

May 25, 2007

California Tribal Casino Compact Amendments: Four Major Flaws

May 25, 2007

In California We Have a "Rumpocracy"--Five Steps to Get Us to a Democracy in the State

May 24, 2007

"Unintended Consequences" of Blue Cross $2 Million Ad Campaign Against California Health Insurance Legislation

May 24, 2007

Nava at Maze orig

May 24, 2007

Nava at Maze

May 24, 2007

Documents Connect the Dots Between Money, Tribal Casinos, Abramoff, Doolittle, Bush White House, and State Government

May 24, 2007

California E. coli Conservatives: "Let Them Eat Cowpies"

May 24, 2007

California Tribal Casino Compact Amendments: High Stakes Bring Heavy Spending

May 24, 2007

California Should Not Subsidize Environmental Damage From Styrofoam: AB 820 Will Help Our Beaches and Our State

May 24, 2007

The California Conversions of Republicans Campaigning in the Golden State

May 24, 2007

A Humane Death: A Personal Story of Why California Needs a New Law

May 23, 2007

"Can California Import Enough College Graduates to Meet Workforce Needs?" is out site of the day

May 23, 2007

Smelt Survey Indicates California Delta is Literally Dying--Action is Needed Now

May 23, 2007

California Tribal Casino Compact Amendments: A bad deal for the state, local communities and most California tribes

May 23, 2007

Reducing Californians' Exposure to Toxic Chemicals By Banning Brominated and Chlorinated Fire Retardants

May 23, 2007

The California Compassionate Choices Act: Controversy is in the Eye of the Beholder

May 23, 2007

Preschool for California Kids in Areas Served by Low Performing Elementary Schools Needs Continued Funding in State Budget

May 23, 2007

Sacramento Humans Swim Circles Around Whales

May 22, 2007

“They Deserve a Family” on California’s foster children is our site of the day

May 22, 2007

PURSUIT OF HYPOTETHICAL ‘VOTE FRAUD’ HACKERS IMPERILS 2008 ELECTIONS AND COSTS TAXPAYERS MILLIONS IN WASTED MONEY

May 22, 2007

Does Schwarzenegger Govern California Like a Democrat?

May 22, 2007

Californians, If You Love Billboards...

May 22, 2007

California to EPA: Give States Green Light to Achieve Large Cuts in Global Warming Pollution from Cars and SUVs

May 22, 2007

High Speed Rail: A Necessity for California

May 22, 2007

Red Rural Counties in Northern California Need Your Help to Fund Schools and Roads

May 21, 2007

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Begins Needed Top-to-Bottom Review Of E-Voting Systems

May 21, 2007

“A Comparative Overview of California Redistricting Reform Proposals in 2007” is our site of the day

May 21, 2007

California Legislative Solution to Eminent Domain Sought by Broad Coalition

May 21, 2007

Another Shameless Year of Labeling Clean Air, Clean Water, Flood control, Health Care, Environmental Protections, and Even Food Safety Bills as "Job Killers"

May 21, 2007

Assembly Hearing to Governor: Re-negotiate California Casino Deals

May 20, 2007

ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IN THE DELTA: A CALL TO ACTION

May 20, 2007

Taking on High Gas Prices in California and the Oil Industry: What Will Come Out of the Other End of the Legislative Grinder?

May 19, 2007

Getting California to a Fair Budget Will Require "Shared Solutions" in Key Areas Says Assembly Budget Chair in Democratic Radio Address

May 18, 2007

Massive Layoffs at SF Chronicle--One-Fourth of Newsroom Staff--Some Buyouts Being Offered Reporters at LA Times, as Media Consolidation Continues in California

May 18, 2007

California Speaker of the Assembly on Gasoline Prices: "I believe that there is market manipulation at the refinery level"

May 18, 2007

What the California Dream Act Means to Immigrant Children

May 18, 2007

California Has an Opportunity to Help the Homeless: Let's Work Together on this Very Basic Human Need

May 18, 2007

A UC Student's Plea to the Legislature on Fee Increases and Cuts in Academic Preparation in Governor Schwarzenegger’s Revised Budget

May 17, 2007

California Speaker of the Assembly to Announce Package of Bills Tomorrow on Refinery Practices and Gasoline Prices

May 17, 2007

Who Has the Moral Compass for Values We Need in the California Budget Fight?

May 17, 2007

REAL ESTATE TRANSFER FEES IN CALIFORNIA: SO THERE WE WERE...STRANGE BILLS, STRANGER BEDFELLOWS

May 17, 2007

"Data Snapshot: One Out of Five U.S. Children is Living in an Immigrant Family" is our site of the day

May 17, 2007

University of California Financial Conflicts of Interest Prompt Call for Pension Governance Reform--or There Will Be a Ballot Measure

May 17, 2007

California Workers' Compensation "Fixed" So That Insurer Profits Are Greater Than Benefits Paid to Workers

May 17, 2007

Democrats Will Have to Save California Public Transportation From Schwarzenegger's Budget

May 16, 2007

"Modeling Health Reform in California" is our site of the day

May 16, 2007

Speaker Nunez: Congress Must Enact “Just and Pragmatic” Immigration Reform Proposals

May 16, 2007

Republicans Prefer Deficit Spending to Taxes and Democrats Deficit Spending to Cuts in School Spending--Analyst Liz Hill and Bee Columnist Dan Walters Disagree

May 16, 2007

Schrag to Schwarzenegger: Sign the California Dream Act and Start Immigration Reform in Our State

May 16, 2007

Democrats Put the Money on the Table: New Numbers for Nunez and Perata Health Reform Plans

May 16, 2007

California Needs to Regulate Health Insurance Rates and Practices--Just as We Did With Auto Insurance 15 Years Ago

May 15, 2007

Electoral College Reform Picking up Steam: National Popular Vote for President Bill Passes California Senate

May 15, 2007

Spending Changes in Governor Schwarzenegger's May Revise of 2007-08 California Budget: A Detailed Analysis by Category

May 15, 2007

California Prisons, Post-Partisanship, and the Death of Democracy

May 15, 2007

Assembly Speaker Nunez Says State Budget Proposal is "Reminiscent of Pre-post-partisanship Governor" and "Out of Sync" With California Values

May 15, 2007

Perata Speaks "Democratese" About Schwarzenegger Budget Revision

May 15, 2007

Schwarzenegger’s Budget Does Not Expand Eligibility in Any Health programs; Assembly Passes Ban on Retrospective Health Insurance Cancellation

May 15, 2007

"Governor's May Revision Maintains CalWORKS Cuts, Would Privatize the Lottery and EdFund" by the California Budget Project is our site of the day

May 14, 2007

GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER UNDERMINES CRUCIAL HOME CARE PROGRAM

May 14, 2007

An Eventful Day in California: AG Brown Sues Bush--May Revise of State Budget-- Tribal Gaming Hearing in Assembly--Electoral College Reform on Senate Floor--and Spitzer in the Doghouse

May 14, 2007

Privatizing California: A Neo-Con Con

May 14, 2007

What's the Matter With Following the Law in Building a Toll Road in Orange County?

May 14, 2007

RETURN ON INVESTMENT: NEW REPORT SHOWS OVER ONE MILLION ACRES IN CALIFORNIA PROTECTED BY HABITAT CONSERVATION FUND

May 13, 2007

PARIS HILTON AND REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN JOHN DOOLITTLE – TWO VICTIM’S OF UNEQUAL JUSTICE?

May 13, 2007

California Challenges Bush Administration Low Gas Mileage Standards: Huge Impact on Global Warming Riding on Court Hearing Monday

May 13, 2007

Finding My Candidate for President at the California Democratic Convention--Unexpectedly--And Other Observations

May 13, 2007

MediaNews, Hearst and Clint Reilly Should Not Be Allowed to Keep Their Secret Settlement a Secret

May 12, 2007

The California Democratic Party 2007 Convention: A Progressive Viewpoint

May 12, 2007

Nunez Sees New Business Coalition as Tipping Point in Moving Forward on California Health Care Reform

May 11, 2007

"How Much Is Too Much? A Framework for Evaluating Health Care Affordability" of the California Budget Project is our site of the day

May 11, 2007

"It's Not Just MacArthur Park"

May 11, 2007

Why Schwarzenegger's Health Care Plan is a Trojan Horse

May 11, 2007

Wonderful Photo Opportunity, Little Specificity from CEOs of Major California Corporations on Health Care, Where's the Beef?

May 11, 2007

In Time of California's Prison Crisis, Prop 36 Is Solution

May 10, 2007

Why California High Speed Rail Will Never Happen--But Should

May 10, 2007

California Needs New Laws to Protect Against E. coli Contamination of Leafy Green Vegetables--Voluntary "Self-Regulation" by Industry is a Sham

May 10, 2007

CSU Students Deliver 7,000 Letters on Fee Hikes on Steps of State Capitol, then Lobby Legislature and Governor

May 9, 2007

Schwarzenegger Accepts $100,000 from Chevron as Californians Get Hit with Record Gasoline Prices: Citizen Petition Calls for Special Session

May 9, 2007

Largest California Legislative Caucus Endorses Legislation

May 9, 2007

Peter Schrag's "Modest Proposal" on Exporting California Prisoners

May 9, 2007

Only in California and Haiti do Casinos Regulate Themselves: Consumers and Taxpayers Will Pay the Price for Government Inaction

May 9, 2007

Why Did 26 of 32 California Assembly Republicans Vote Against the Name Equality Act?

May 9, 2007

Sheila Kuehl's "Medicare for All" Bill Draws Thousands to California State Capitol

May 8, 2007

Death Chamber: What Did They Know, And... is our site of the day

May 8, 2007

Death Chamber Secrecy is But One Example of Why We Need Sunshine in California Prisons

May 8, 2007

Freeway Collapse A Wake Up Call on Why California Cannot Afford Transit Cuts

May 8, 2007

Ask the Governor and Legislative Leadership to Stand Up to the Health Insurance Industry and Stop Abuses That Harm Californians

May 8, 2007

Funding Health Care for California Retirees: The Full Text of State Controller John Chiang's Speech to Sacramento Press Club

May 8, 2007

Rove Behind Doolittle Raids?

May 8, 2007

"Malefactors of Great Wealth"

May 7, 2007

"Californian Issues" in the Presidential Campaign

May 7, 2007

"In the Dead of the Night: How Midnight Legislation Weakened California’s Campaign Finance Laws, and How to Strengthen Them" is our site of the day

May 7, 2007

Schwarzenegger Applauds Obama for Legislation Modeled after California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard

May 7, 2007

A Mother Pleads for Passage of California Compassionate Choices Act

May 7, 2007

Major Changes in Sentencing, Prisons, and Penal System Quietly and Methodically Advancing in Sacramento

May 7, 2007

“California Penalty” Reaches $7 to $15 Per Fill-Up, Report Shows

May 6, 2007

Is Schwarzenegger Opposed to Medicare?

May 5, 2007

Canada Joins Australia in Banning Incandescent Bulbs: Will California Be Next?

May 4, 2007

LET’S SEE, DO I HAVE THE G.O. P. 2008 PLATFORM RIGHT?? KEEP NATURALIZED CITIZENS IN A SECOND CLASS STATUS AND SUPPORT ENDLESS WAR IN IRAQ??

May 4, 2007

A Revealing Interview of Governor Schwarzenegger

May 4, 2007

California Voters Should Buy Retail When Voting for President

May 3, 2007

Perata Signs on as Coauthor of Clean Money Bill

May 3, 2007

The Workers' Compensation System Should Be Abolished: Today's California Supreme Court Decision--$3,360 for an Amputation

May 3, 2007

California Democratic Party Convention 2007--Parting Shots

May 3, 2007

Appropriations Committee Keeps California Clean Money Supporters in Suspense

May 3, 2007

The California Healthy Employees Act

May 2, 2007

Senator Oropeza Makes it Official: She is Running for Millender-McDonald Congressional Seat

May 2, 2007

How California Got into the Mess We're In with Prison Sentences: There Will Never Be Enough Red Meat for Some

May 2, 2007

Clean Money Will Work in California--Look at the Details

May 2, 2007

Women's Reproductive Rights at Stake in California in Battle Over Funding

May 2, 2007

For Some This is Just a Game: Davis College Campus Republicans' Insulting Mocking "Illegal Immigrant Capture the Flag" Game

May 1, 2007

"SLOUCHING TOWARD THE MAY REVISION TO THE 2007-08 BUDGET" is our site of the day

May 1, 2007

Meltdown of Maze in Bay Area Underscores Importance of Public Transit to Safety, Economy, and Environment of California

May 1, 2007

Uninformed Musings on the Candidates Who Appeared at the California Democratic Convention

May 1, 2007

Almost Half of California Counties Fail Clean Air Test-- Los Angeles and Riverside Top National Bad Air List

May 1, 2007

California Legislation to Save Lives With Umbilical Cord Blood

April 30, 2007

Comparing Notes with Sherry Bebitch Jeffe at the California Democratic Party Convention: Which Presidential Candidates Were Winners?

April 30, 2007

A Reflection on the State Democratic Party in San Diego

April 30, 2007

Growing Pains for the California Democratic Party: Records Set at Convention in San Diego

April 30, 2007

John Edwards' Passionate and Substantive Speech at California Democratic Party Convention Wins Converts

April 30, 2007

Strong Iraq War Remarks of John Edwards at California Democratic Party Convention

April 29, 2007

Barack Obama’s “Turn the Page” Speech Wows California Democratic Convention

April 29, 2007

Hillary Clinton Shows Depth at California Democratic Convention

April 28, 2007

Excitement and Enthusiasm at California Democratic Party Convention—And Presidential Candidates Have Not Yet Arrived

April 28, 2007

Pictures That Tell a Thousand Words: Day One of the 2007 California Democratic Convention

April 27, 2007

The California Progress Report Heads Home to San Diego and the California Democratic State Convention

April 27, 2007

Senate Leader Don Perata’s Floor Speech on California Prisons

April 27, 2007

What is the Real Problem at the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners?

April 27, 2007

California Democratic Party Needs Structure for Financial Transparency and Accountability

April 27, 2007

April 27, 2007

How Green is My Schwarzenegger?

April 27, 2007

Why the San Francisco Young Democrats Endorse Mark Leno

April 27, 2007

California Senate District 23 Preview

April 26, 2007

Choices for Working Californians: 2008 Presidential Primary is our site of the day

April 26, 2007

Choices for Working Californians: 2008 Presidential Primary is our site of the day

April 26, 2007

Polling Memo Shows Clinton Ahead, But Race is Fluid in California Democratic Horserace for President

April 26, 2007

Prison Bill Passes Legislature and Goes to Governor

April 26, 2007

PPIC Poll: Californians Support Major Educational Changes and Increased Funding if Coupled With These

April 26, 2007

The Other Shoe Drops: Perata's Health Reform Bill Clears Committee

April 25, 2007

Outline of Prison Deal to be Voted on Tomorrow by California Legislature

April 25, 2007

Perata and Nunez Send Joint Letter to Schwarzenegger on Prison Bill to be Voted on Tomorrow

April 25, 2007

Speaker of the California Assembly Nunez Endorses Clinton for President and Will be National Co-Chair

April 25, 2007

Prison Deal Announced by Assembly and Senate Democratic and Republican Leaders

April 25, 2007

BEE REPORTER FALLS INTO REPULBICAN “LANGUAGE” TRAP: IT’S THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, NOT THE ‘DEMOCRAT’ PARTY

April 25, 2007

Cell Phone Survey of Young Californians Presents Picture of Generation to Come

April 25, 2007

California Assembly Committee Approves Speaker's "Near Universal" Health Care Bill and Laird's Bill to Cover All Children

April 25, 2007

SUPER TUESDAY: ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE CONSIDERS 37 BILLS; PASSES SPEAKER'S HEALTH REFORM BILL

April 25, 2007

ONE STEP CLOSER TO LIGHTS OUT FOR THE INCANDESCENT

April 24, 2007

“Lethal Injection is Not Humane” by the Public Library of Science is our site of the day

April 24, 2007

California Ballot Measure on Iraq Troop Withdrawal Very Popular with Voters

April 24, 2007

COALITION CALLS FOR MORE SOLAR POWER IN CALIFORNIA

April 24, 2007

Death of Member of Congress Juanita Millender-McDonald Stuns and Saddens Those Who Knew Her

April 24, 2007

California Health Reform Bills Would Expand Children’s Coverage, But Shrink From Comprehensive Reform of Industry

April 23, 2007

An Ambitious 58 County Strategy for California Democrats

April 23, 2007

A Call to Action on Red Counties and Districts at California Democratic Convention

April 23, 2007

California Redistricting Battle--More Action Expected This Week

April 23, 2007

Rush of UC to Agreement with BP Undermines Shared Governance and Transparency

April 22, 2007

Heart of Green: Passion for Green, Clean & Everything In Between is our site of the day

April 22, 2007

Carbon Sequestration: Injection of toxic gases into poor communities or the salvation of the fossil fuel industry, or both?

April 22, 2007

California Senate Leader Celebrates Earth Day with Focus on Legislation

April 22, 2007

BISHOP’S MEMORY FAILS IN SAN DIEGO CATHOLIC CHURCH BANKRUPTCY TRIAL

April 21, 2007

Democratic Radio Address: Celebrate Earth Day By Pitching In

April 21, 2007

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JOHN GARAMENDI: REFLECTIONS ON FIRST 100 DAYS IN OFFICE

April 20, 2007

"Will Vote by Mail Elections Increase Turnout?" is our site of the day

April 20, 2007

California Senate District 21 Preview: Frommer v. Liu

April 20, 2007

It's Now Up to UC Board of Regents to Examine the BP Deal in Detail

April 20, 2007

Governor Rebuffed in Freeze for 375,000 Low Income Californians Who Care for Disabled and Elderly

April 20, 2007

Biggest Increase in Gambling in U.S. History Quickly Passed by California Senate With Little Debate

April 19, 2007

"California's Commitment to Adult English Learner: Caught Between Funding and Need" is our site of the day

April 19, 2007

Field Poll: Voters Have Sunny Feelings About State--Younger Voters Think of California as a Nation-State

April 19, 2007

REPUBLICAN ‘VOTE FRAUD’ ALLEGATIONS CONCEAL POLICY OF DENYING THE FRANCHISE TO POOR AND MINORITY VOTERS

April 19, 2007

Kuehl's "Medicare for All Californians" Passes Senate Health Committee Before Standing Room Only Crowd

April 19, 2007

Stanford Report and Recommendations Show Need for a Sentencing Commission in California to Complete Reform Already Under Way

April 18, 2007

California Assembly Speaker Nunez Announces Redistricting Proposal--Common Cause "Encouraged" After Being Briefed

April 18, 2007

Breaking News: Sacramento Area Congressmember John Doolittle's House Raided by FBI

April 18, 2007

Tribal Casinos Fast Tracked in California State Senate: Why?

April 18, 2007

‘CLEAN MONEY’ LEGISLATION CIRCUMVENTS THE FIRST AMENDMENT

April 18, 2007

Legislative Committees Churn Out Bills as Deadlines Loom in Sacramento

April 18, 2007

Prior Approval of Health Insurance Premium Increases Legislation Passes Committee--First Time in California History

April 18, 2007

Pete McCloskey Speaks Truth to Power: Campaign Finance Reform is Back and Passes First Committee

April 17, 2007

Grade the News is our site of the day

April 17, 2007

California Needs to Join Other States in Movement for Excellence in Higher Education

April 17, 2007

CALIFORNIA CHIROPRACTIC BOARD NEEDS A MAJOR ADJUSTMENT

April 17, 2007

ACTIONS ON HEALTH CARE THIS WEEK IN CALIFORNIA: RALLIES, HEARINGS, AND CALLS

April 16, 2007

Split in Assembly Republican Caucus Over Prisons as Spitzer Rebuked by Speaker and Republican Leader

April 16, 2007

Democrats Smell Blood in the Water for Doolittle--Good News for Democrat Charlie Brown in California CD 4

April 16, 2007

Key Electoral Reform Hearing Tomorrow in California Assembly on AB 1294

April 16, 2007

Welcome Pete McCloskey, Newly Registered Democrat in California

April 16, 2007

NOT FIRED! U.S. ATTORNEY ESTABLISHES NEW LOW FOR REPUBLICAN PROSECUTORS

April 16, 2007

Young Dems Host First Senate Debate Between Leno and Migden: Leno Gets Endorsement

April 16, 2007

ASSEMBLY REPUBLICANS HYPOCRITICAL POSITION ON REDISTRICTING “REFORM”

April 15, 2007

Chuckling with Schwarzenegger Before We Get Real on Global Warming

April 14, 2007

Internal Documents Show Nursing Home Workers And Patients Were Sold Out in California

April 14, 2007

UCLA Finds Gov's Prop. 36 Proposal $109 Million Short

April 13, 2007

"Who Pays Taxes in California?" The Answer May Surprise You

April 13, 2007

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JOE REPUBLICAN

April 13, 2007

Berkeley Chancellor Mischaracterized Dealings with BP as "Open"

April 13, 2007

New Study Shows Problems with Runoff Elections in L.A.--Instant Runoff Voting Proposed as Solution

April 13, 2007

N.R.A. FORCED TO SUPPORT PARKER V. D.C. – CASE WHICH MAY VALIDATE HANDGUN REGULATION AND ASSAULT WEAPON BANS IN CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES

April 12, 2007

CALIFORNIA HEALTH REFORM DEBATE REVS UP TO HIGH GEAR

April 12, 2007

"The Carbon Boom," a Report Released Today by Environment California, is our site of the day

April 12, 2007

Conoco Takes The Plunge: First Major Oil Company to Call for Regulation of Greenhouse Gases

April 12, 2007

Clean Money is NOT the Way to Clean Up California Politics

April 12, 2007

Poll Shows 79% Support for AB 32, California's Global Warming Law, That Only 1 Republican in Legislature Voted For

April 12, 2007

The Secret is Stockton!

April 12, 2007

Painting a Picture of War and Oil to My Children and Hoping We Can Vote Us out of Iraq

April 11, 2007

"Retiree Health Care Overview," newly launched, is our site of the day

April 11, 2007

Perata Letter to Schwarzenegger Administration Links Water Efficiency to Energy Use, Flood Control, and Global Warming

April 11, 2007

DON’T CALIFORNIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHO PAYS JOURNALISTS?

April 11, 2007

The South Will NOT Rise Again--The Peripheral Canal Will Not Float

April 11, 2007

Californians Facing Double-Digit Health Insurance Rate Increases in Sacramento Today Supporting Affordability Bill

April 11, 2007

Reforming Life Sentences for Youth Offenders in California

April 11, 2007

REPUBLICAN VOTING COMMISSION DISTORTS FACTUAL FINDINGS TO FURTHER ANTI-DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ENDS

April 11, 2007

Lesson from Offshore LNG Siting Decision: Winning Elections in "Down Ticket" Races Has Consequences

April 11, 2007

Take Back Blue California

April 10, 2007

The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research website is our site of the day

April 10, 2007

IN SAN DIEGO, EVEN THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE MAY BE CORRUPT

April 10, 2007

“POLITICIANS ARE ELECTED TO DO WHAT’S RIGHT, NOT WHAT’S POPULAR”. JON FLEISCHMAN, CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY OFFICIAL

April 10, 2007

California Voters Want Focus to be on Path to Legalization for Illegal Immigrants

April 10, 2007

Teamsters & Turtles Target Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Wages & Pollution

April 9, 2007

CALIFORNIA LEADER URGES OTHER STATES TO JOIN IN MAKING FEBRUARY 5, 2008 PRIMARY DATE A NATIONAL REFERENDUM TO END IRAQ WAR

April 9, 2007

Major Legislation to Protect California’s Delta Announced by Senate Democratic Leadership

April 9, 2007

Singlepayer.com is our site of the day

April 9, 2007

IF EARTHQUAKE, FIRE OR FLOOD HITS CALIFORNIA ANY RELIEF AID MUST BE PAID FOR BY CUTTING FUNDS FOR PRISONS, SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE. SO PLEDGE CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS.

April 9, 2007

California Legislature Returns Today for Busy Week—Now the Difficult Part Begins

April 9, 2007

THE NORTH WILL RISE AGAIN IN CALIFORNIA POLITICS

April 8, 2007

California Should Start a National Movement to Vote Us Out of the Iraq War

April 8, 2007

Environment California: Global Warming Could Wipe Out One Fourth of All Species

April 8, 2007

The “Year of Health Care” – Reforms should serve consumers, not fatten insurance industry profits

April 7, 2007

California Field Poll: Record Highs for Democrats in Congress and Senate—Even Republicans Disapprove of Congressional Republicans

April 7, 2007

Cervical Cancer Vaccine Available, Should Be Required in California

April 6, 2007

SAN DIEGO, THE CITY THAT “KNOWS HOW” TO FACILITATE – THEN, TO COVER UP CORRUPTION

April 6, 2007

April 6, 2007

Field Poll Today: Voters Approve of California Presidential Primary Move and Term Limit Initiative as Written

April 6, 2007

“A Permanent Drought Seen for Southwest” is our site of the day

April 6, 2007

Predatory Lenders and California’s Foreclosure Crisis

April 6, 2007

California Car Buyers Bill of Rights: A Sour Deal for Consumers

April 5, 2007

Vote Us Out of Iraq

April 5, 2007

Spring is a Good Time for Building Democratic Clubs in California

April 5, 2007

2007 May Be a Good Vintage for Open Government Legislation in California

April 5, 2007

WILL GEORGE W’S “FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE” DOOM THE REPUBLICANS TO YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS?

April 5, 2007

Record Lows for Bush in California Field Poll Released Today Will Impact State Politics

April 5, 2007

Cabrillo Port LNG Terminal Hearing Next Monday: Take Action Today if You Want Clean Air

April 5, 2007

DISABILITY BENEFITS ARE INADEQUATE FOR PERMANENTLY INJURED WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA: We Don't Need to Study This to Death

April 5, 2007

Time for a Moratorium on Commissions on Education in California

April 5, 2007

Another Social Security Breach at UC Leads to Further Call for Legislation

April 4, 2007

Giuliani Leads in California, But Dems Lead All Top Republicans for President in General Election

April 4, 2007

Bush at Record Low in New California Poll--23%! Just 5% of Democrats Approve of Iraq Policies While 94% Disapprove--Schwarzenegger by Contrast is Popular

April 4, 2007

Other States Leading on National Popular Vote--How About California?

April 4, 2007

SB 40: THE PRISON REFORM BATTLE CONTINUES IN CALIFORNIA!

April 3, 2007

9 to 5 Not Another Day in the Capitol as National Association of Working Women Lobby in Sacramento

April 3, 2007

SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT POLITICS TOOK PLACE IN THAT GOVERNMENT OFFICE…

April 3, 2007

California Term Limits Initiative Will Turn on Voter Perceptions

April 3, 2007

"More Californians are Working Later in Life" is our site of the day

April 3, 2007

Clinton Leads in Democratic Primary According to California Field Poll

April 3, 2007

Why California Will Elect a Democrat President on November 4, 2008

April 3, 2007

LET’S PENALIZE LAWMAKERS WHO INTRODUCE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION (FOR PUBLICITY)

April 3, 2007

Celebrate Labor History Week in California

April 3, 2007

A California Perspective on AG Alberto Gonzales’ Problems

April 2, 2007

Today's US Supreme Court Decision Will Help California in Cases Against Auto Manufacturers to Protect Our Environment

April 2, 2007

LEADER OF ‘HOWARD JARVIS TAXPAYER’ GROUP ADMITS HE’S A HIRED GUN WHO DEFENDED TERM LIMITS – WHICH HAS LITTLE TO

April 2, 2007

Central Valley County Chairs to Introduce Blue Strategy at California Democratic Convention

April 2, 2007

"Workers’ Compensation Reform: Employers Save, Insurers Profit, Injured Workers Suffer" is our site of the day

April 2, 2007

Cleaning Up Trucks at California Ports Clears the Air and Improves Truckers' Lives

April 2, 2007

California Regulators' Favors to Oil Warrant Broader Audit

April 2, 2007

LEGISLATORS SHIFT INTO GEAR ON CALIFORNIA CLEAN CAR DISCOUNT

April 1, 2007

Matthew Dowd: Chief Strategist for Bush and Schwarzenegger’s Reelections Says He's Lost Faith in Bush, Likes Obama, and US Should Pull Out of Iraq

April 1, 2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Take Action This Year to Honor Cesar Chavez

March 31, 2007

My Parents Worked the Fields--What Cesar Chavez Means to Me

March 31, 2007

Cesar Chavez Had a Different Vision of a Union Movement

March 31, 2007

Alternatives to Costly California Dams Discussed in Democratic Radio Address

March 31, 2007

Arnold's Appointees Make Harriet Miers Look Like A Good Pick

March 30, 2007

Oil Watchdog, newly launched this week, is our site of the day

March 30, 2007

Presidential Primary Reform Plan Will Be Topic at California Democratic Party Convention

March 30, 2007

Why Would Any California Legislator Vote Against a Bill Outlawing Driving While Smoking with Kids in a Car?

March 30, 2007

JUDGE TO CWR ON DELTA PUMPS: HEY RECKLESS DRIVER-- HAND OVER THE KEYS

March 30, 2007

California Transit Cuts Would Increase Congestion and Climate Change Problems for the State

March 29, 2007

Demise of the Middle Class: For SoCal Grocery Workers, It's Three Strikes and You’re Out

March 29, 2007

Chevron Talks Green But Won't Really Sell Alternative or Biofuel in California

March 29, 2007

Giuliani, Clinton Lead in California, Strong Support for Redistricting Changes but Difficulties for Term Limit Initiative

March 29, 2007

Bush at All Time Low in California Poll--Other Attitudes of the Golden State on State and National Issues and Officeholders

March 28, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Performance Wows Crowd as He Plays President--or at Least Presidential Politics

March 28, 2007

California Compassionate Choices Act, AB 374, Passed by Assembly Judiciary Committee

March 28, 2007

Powerful Testimony of Louise Schaefer on AB 374, the California Compassionate Choices Act

March 28, 2007

"Safe Place to Learn Act" Will Protect Students from Harassment Based on Sexual Orientation

March 28, 2007

California Children's Needed Dental Care One Step Closer

March 28, 2007

CALIFORNIA SENATE BEGINS NITTY GRITTY WORK ON IMPLEMENTING HEALTH CARE LAWS

March 27, 2007

Protecting California's Parks

March 27, 2007

"Subprime Lending is a Net Drain on Homeownership" is our site of the day

March 27, 2007

Collapse of the "Subprime" Mortgage Market in California

March 27, 2007

The Subprime Foreclosure Crisis: How Did We Get Here in California?

March 27, 2007

The Subprime Foreclosure Crisis: How Does California Get Out?

March 27, 2007

California Assembly Passes Stop Gap Measure on Sentencing in Criminal Cases

March 27, 2007

Real Life Balancing of Work and Family in California

March 26, 2007

Food Safety and E. coli--101 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, the great Progressive Republican President, in the wake of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, signed the Pure Food and Drug Act and regulated the food industry

March 26, 2007

California Needs to Regulate Food Safety

March 26, 2007

California Assemblymembers Bring New Hope Back from D.C. Lobbying Trip

March 26, 2007

SB 40 Will Not "Fix" California's Sentencing Scheme and is Unconstitutional

March 26, 2007

The California Gubernatorial Election of 1934 and Progressives

March 25, 2007

California State University and Faculty Optimistic Settlement Can Be Reached Based on Fact Finder's Report

March 25, 2007

JERRY BROWN FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA???

March 25, 2007

Legislation to End California's Sale of Social Security Numbers

March 24, 2007

Democratic Radio Address: Let The Sun Shine On California's Government

March 24, 2007

Electoral College Reform Would Give California Clout in November

March 23, 2007

School Finance Facts is our site of the day

March 23, 2007

WHY DID CALIFORNIA’S MOST INFLUENTIAL REPUBLICAN “INSIDER” OPPOSE THE FIRING OF US ATTORNEY KEVIN RYAN?

March 23, 2007

Breaking News: Judge Orders California Water Project Shut Down Because of Violation of California Endangered Species Act

March 23, 2007

REPUBLICANS DROP FROM PARITY WITH DEMOCRATS TO 35-50 DEFICIT IN PUBLIC ESTEEM – AND RIGHTLY SO!

March 23, 2007

Schwarzenegger Wants Presidential Candidates in California to be Specific and Answer Tough Questions

March 23, 2007

Hiding the Ball on E. coli: What We Now Know About Spinach and Other Leafy Vegetables Grown in California

March 23, 2007

Villaraigosa: A "Charismatic Visionary"

March 23, 2007

LIFTING THE FOG: PCL'S GUIDE TO THE FATE OF THE CALIFORNIA DELTA

March 22, 2007

Is a California Prison Reform Deal Imminent?

March 22, 2007

STUDY: ILLUSION OF HEALTH INSURANCE CAN FAIL TO PROTECT CALIFORNIANS

March 22, 2007

Bad News for California's Prisons This Week

March 22, 2007

THE RIGHT TO CARRY A CONCEALED WEAPON KILLED BY REPUBLICAN SHERIFF’S ASSOCIATION

March 22, 2007

Backup for Cavala on Gun Control from California's Leading Legal Expert

March 21, 2007

Largest University Strike in US History Looms as CSU Profs Overwhelmingly Vote to Walk Off the Job

March 21, 2007

Alberto Gonzales Must Go --For the Integrity of Those We Elect in California

March 21, 2007

Poizner Joins Limbaugh in Running Away from Schwarzenegger

March 21, 2007

California Joins Investors' Call for National Policy to Fight Global Warming

March 21, 2007

Wrapping the Mind Around 1,700 Pages of Reports on California's Public Schools

March 20, 2007

D.C. GUN CASE LIKELY TO VALIDATE CALIFORNIA’S FIREARM REGULATORY SCHEME – ENACTED BY DEMOCRATS OVER N.R.A. OBJECTIONS

March 20, 2007

Massachusetts Health Law Not a Model for California

March 20, 2007

Charges of Politics in California HP Pretexting Case and Lawsuit Against Auto Manufacturers is Laughable

March 20, 2007

"Focus on Results: Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges" is our site of the day

March 20, 2007

SENTENCING BILL WORSENS CALIFORNIA’S STATE PRISON CRISIS

March 20, 2007

Upset: California Federation of Teachers Elects Marty Hittelman to Replace President

March 19, 2007

A Modest Proposal for Big Oil and New Jobs in California

March 19, 2007

"Re-envisioning the Delta" is our site of the day

March 19, 2007

WILL NEW FPPC OFFICIALS OUTLAW THE USE OF “MAIL” IN GOVERNMENT?

March 19, 2007

Changes at California's Key Political Watchdog Agency

March 19, 2007

Cal Students Lobby Legislature on Tuition Increases

March 19, 2007

The War Comes Home to California

March 18, 2007

Obama in California--It's Real!

March 17, 2007

Assemblymembers Discuss Overhauling California’s K-12 Education in the Democratic Weekly Radio Address

March 17, 2007

The War on Drugs and Marijuana in California

March 16, 2007

"Gunfire Down Below"--What Can We Do In California About Gang Violence?

March 16, 2007

Three Different Perspectives on "Getting Down to Facts"--A Groundbreaking Report on California's Educational System

March 16, 2007

Californians Care About Public Transportation: Tell Us Why It Matters to You

March 16, 2007

How to Lose at Practically Anything (Politically)

March 15, 2007

It's Official: California Will Have Its Earliest Presidential Primary on February 5, 2008

March 15, 2007

THE NEW FEBRUARY PRIMARY LEAVES THE JUNE PRIMARY AN EMPTY STEPCHILD

March 15, 2007

ALEVIATING YOUR TOXIC BODY BURDEN: THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE EXPERIMENTS WITH "GREEN CHEMISTRY"

March 15, 2007

ALEVIATING YOUR TOXIC BODY BURDEN: THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE EXPERIMENTS WITH "GREEN CHEMISTRY"

March 15, 2007

ASSEMBLY REPUBLICANS HEALTH PROPOSALS UNDERMINE MANDATES IN EXISTING CALIFORNIA LAW

March 15, 2007

We're Lucky to Have Pedro Nava as Chair of the California Joint Committee on Emergency Services & Homeland Security

March 15, 2007

"Getting Down to Facts: A Research Project Examining California’s School Governance and Finance Systems" is our site of the day

March 14, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger to Sign Bill Tomorrow to Move California Presidential Primary to February 5, 2008

March 14, 2007

Paying to be Uninsured--An Almost "Only in California Story"

March 14, 2007

Garamendi's Speech on California Climate Change and Energy Policy to Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

March 14, 2007

"WHOSE KIDS ARE COVERED?" is our site of the day

March 14, 2007

As California State University Profs Vote on Strike, It's Time for Sunshine on Executive Compensation

March 14, 2007

California Republican Assemblymembers Healthcare Package DOA at Hospital This Morning

March 14, 2007

There is No Crisis in California's Pension System

March 13, 2007

California Can Shine Across the Nation By Enacting Performance Based Lighting Efficiency Legislation

March 13, 2007

The California Progress Report is One Year Old Today!

March 13, 2007

The California Secretary of State Report of Registration is our site of the day

March 13, 2007

Robert Reich on the UC Berkeley-BP Project

March 13, 2007

UC Berkeley Must Avoid Stanford Mistake That Allowed Big Oil “Greenwashing,”-- Stanford Should Make Its Research Public Immediately

March 13, 2007

Schwarzenegger Administration Wants "Voluntary" Compliance With Food Safety Laws?

March 13, 2007

Celebrate Sunshine Week in California--Hold Public Officials Accountable for Access to Information

March 13, 2007

Schwarzenegger and Chiropractic Board: Consumer--Watch Your Back!

March 12, 2007

“Women's Wage Gains Continue to Exceed Those of Men in California” is our site of the day

March 12, 2007

500 Volunteer on a Sunday to Help Obama's Upcoming Oakland Appearance

March 12, 2007

The Democratic Nomination for President: How California's Delegates are Selected

March 12, 2007

How to Treat Drug Addiction in California: A Doctor's Perspective

March 12, 2007

TIMELY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE REGULATIONS MANDATED BY 2002 CALIFORNIA LAW STILL NOT ADOPTED

March 12, 2007

Powerful Assembly Chair Says Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) No Longer Fits in With California's Clean Energy Plans

March 11, 2007

California Springing Forward, Not Falling Back: How the Presidential Primary is Shaking Out

March 10, 2007

California Health Department Delaying Release of Report on E. Coli Outbreak--Fireworks Expected at Monday Senate Hearing

March 10, 2007

California’s Role in Selecting Presidential Nominees Discussed in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

March 9, 2007

"State and Local Government Employees: Where Does California Rank?" is our site of the day

March 9, 2007

Help Me Put Cleaner Cars on the Road in California

March 9, 2007

First "Blogger" Gets Press Credential With Blessing of Capitol Correspondents Association of California

March 9, 2007

Why I Support The California Compassionate Choices Act

March 9, 2007

As Refinery Profits in California Soar and Gas Prices Rise, Will Someone Do Something About it in Sacramento?

March 8, 2007

California Field Poll Shows It's Just a Matter of Time Before We Have Same Sex Marriage in State

March 8, 2007

The ninth annual report on the Oregon Death with Dignity Act is our site of the day

March 8, 2007

After the Applause, Action Needed To Close the Justice Gap in California

March 8, 2007

The California Compassionate Choices Act: Provisions and History

March 7, 2007

CDCR Reforms for Safer Communities is our site of the day

March 7, 2007

Early California Presidential Primary Gets Final Legislative Approval on 46 to 29 vote in State Assembly: What This Means

March 7, 2007

The Arguments Against Moving the California Presidential Primary: The Debate in the State Assembly

March 7, 2007

Party of Fear in California Favors Punishment Over Help to Kids

March 7, 2007

FEDERAL FUNDING FIGHT FOR CALIFORNIA'S CHILDREN HEALTH COVERAGE

March 7, 2007

Medication Errors Cost State $17.7 Billion and Cause Harm to 150,000 Californians Annually

March 6, 2007

CALIFORNIA BURNING: The Struggle for Political Power in the California Democratic Party

March 6, 2007

Bill to Expand "Vote by Mail" Elections in Local California Races

March 6, 2007

Leno Squares Off Against Migden in State Senate Primary

March 5, 2007

"Budget Practices and State Expenditures: Lessons for California" is our site of the day

March 5, 2007

John Edwards' Perfect Moment at UC Berkeley

March 5, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Lead Zeppelin of a Ballot Proposal

March 5, 2007

Lettuce, Vioxx, and Cigarettes in California

March 4, 2007

"Year of Health Care Reform" in California Will Be Between Governor and Democrats in the Legislature

March 3, 2007

Thoughts of Speaker Nunez About California, Global Warming, and Washington, D.C. in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

March 3, 2007

"Gold Built California, Green Will Sustain It"--Speaker Nunez Before Congress on Global Warming

March 2, 2007

CALIFORNIA’S CONGRESSMAN HOWARD BERMAN BRINGS SENSE TO DEBATE OVER IRAQ

March 2, 2007

The Budget Brief "Governor's Health Proposal Raises a Number of Questions" is our site of the day

March 2, 2007

Perata's Testimony Before Congress on Global Warming

March 2, 2007

The Republican Solution to E. Coli Outbreaks: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and Don't Have California Government Do Anything

March 2, 2007

Consumer's Union Blasts "Marketing Agreement" Approach in California Senate Hearing on E. Coli Contamination of Vegetables

March 2, 2007

California Legislature Deals With Issues Important to Seniors, Disabled, and Families

March 1, 2007

REPUBLICANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED AS “SEVERE POVERTY” FLOURISHES

March 1, 2007

California Hearings on E. Coli Outbreaks Begin With Strong Statement From Senator Florez

March 1, 2007

Nursing California Back to Health With SB 840, a Cure That Will Work

March 1, 2007

Huge Container Ships--One of the Most Poorly Regulated Air Pollution Sources in California

March 1, 2007

LET THE GAMES BEGIN: CARD CARRYING CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS DEAL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

February 28, 2007

"How Immigrants Affect California Employment and Wages" is our site of the day

February 28, 2007

Senator Kuehl Tells Press She is Sure Her Universal Health Care Act Will Pass Intact and Be on the Governor's Desk This Year

February 28, 2007

In Her Own Words: Senator Kuehl on the Reintroduction of SB 840, "The California Universal Health Care Act."

February 28, 2007

Anybody Want to be Schwarzenegger's Secretary of Education?

February 28, 2007

HUNDREDS OVERFLOW CAPITOL HEARING ROOMS IN RE-LAUNCH OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BILL--SB 840

February 27, 2007

California Primary Move to the Assembly Floor for Final Passage on Thursday--Cost Estimated at $51 Million

February 27, 2007

SACRAMENTO’S ONLY ELECTED REPUBLICAN USES TAX DOLLARS TO PAY RENT TO HIMSELF FOR AN “OFFICE” WITHOUT PUBLIC ACCESS??

February 27, 2007

California's Chief Justice Had a Lot to Say in State of the Judiciary Speech--Urgent Action Needed to Save Our Courts

February 27, 2007

Climate Change Debate Evolves in California: New Bills Target Sea Rise Impacts and Water Conservation

February 27, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Record Compared with National Press Club Speech

February 26, 2007

Balancing Work and Family is our site of the day

February 26, 2007

Would Schwarzenegger Really Challenge Boxer?

February 26, 2007

CAPITOL PRESS CORPS DENIES BLOGGER ACCESS TO LAWMAKERS WHILE CONCEALING THEIR OWN SOURCES OF INCOME?

February 26, 2007

We Already Know How to Fix California's Health Care Crisis!

February 26, 2007

WAKE-UP CALL FOR CALIFORNIA’S ENDANGERED CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS

February 26, 2007

California Public Employees Want Retiree Health Problem Fixed.

February 25, 2007

Important First Amendment Considerations on Press Credentials to Cover the California Legislature

February 24, 2007

SHEILA KUEHL RE-INTRODUCES HEALTHCARE BILL WITH WIDE LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT--SAME BILL NUMBER--SB 840

February 24, 2007

LITTLE HOOVER COMMISSION EXAMINES CALIFORNIA HEALTH COVERAGE PROPOSALS

February 24, 2007

Learn About Earned Income Tax Credit From California Democratic Weekly Radio Address

February 23, 2007

California Safe Schools is our site of the day

February 23, 2007

Schwarzenegger May Run for US Senator or LA Mayor; Will Endorse a Republican for President But Only After the Convention; Maria Shriver Will not Run for Governor 0r Other Office

February 23, 2007

The History of Schwarzenegger, AB 32, and Global Warming

February 23, 2007

California Senate Democrats Unveil “California First” Global Warming Bill Package

February 23, 2007

THE ROAR OF ROLLBACKS? FUTURE OF WILDERNESS PROTECTION AT STAKE IN OFF ROADER CONFRONTATION

February 23, 2007

Schwarzenegger's Raid of $1.1 Billion from Public Transit

February 22, 2007

“What Would the President’s Proposed Budget Mean for California?” is our site of the day

February 22, 2007

Share the Road

February 22, 2007

California Cities Rank Low in Environment Report But Get Good Marks on Global Warming

February 22, 2007

SEX OFFENDERS USED AS POLLING PLACE OFFICIALS? REPUBLICANS TO THE RESCUE!!

February 22, 2007

Moving the California Presidential Primary: Some Critics Are Missing the Ball

February 22, 2007

LAO Report Warns About Schwarzenegger's Prop 36 Funding Cuts, Advises Rejection

February 21, 2007

California Needs Immigrants: Some Startling Facts

February 21, 2007

The LAO Analysis of the California 2007-08 Budget Bill is our site of the day

February 21, 2007

COALITION REACTS TO GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER’S "PUBLIC EMPLOYEE POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS COMMISSION"

February 21, 2007

GOVERNOR'S HEALTH PLAN IN HOT SPOTLIGHT IN ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE HEARING

February 21, 2007

From Red to Blue: California Assembly District 15 in 2008

February 21, 2007

CALIFORNIA TERM LIMITS AND LEGISLATIVE REFORM PUTS POWER BACK IN HANDS OF THE PEOPLE

February 21, 2007

Wrong Solution To Term Limits in California

February 20, 2007

The State of Black California is our site of the day

February 20, 2007

Prisoner Transfers Out of California Ruled Illegal

February 20, 2007

Guarantee Price and Quality of Health Coverage Before Requiring Californians to Buy

February 20, 2007

ALL MAIL ELECTIONS IN CALIFORNIA?

February 20, 2007

What a California Sentencing Commission Might Do

February 20, 2007

California Paid Sick Leave Bill to be Signed by Governor of Youth & Government Program

February 20, 2007

California Teacher Credentialing Changes Cost Students $, Do Not Improve Schools

February 19, 2007

MAKING CALIFORNIA COUNT: A Case for Presidential Accountability

February 19, 2007

"Still Toxic After All These Years: Air Quality and Environmental Justice in the San Francisco Bay Area" is our site of the day

February 19, 2007

Hate Groups in the California Immigration Debate

February 19, 2007

US and Local Voter Turnout: Nearly Lowest in World's Democracies

February 18, 2007

Why California Needs Immigrants as Our Population Ages

February 17, 2007

Assemblymembers Berg, Levine and de León Discuss Compassionate Choices Act in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

February 16, 2007

Drafting of Initiative on Term Limits May Prevent Perata, President pro Tem of California Senate, from Running for Re-election Next Year

February 16, 2007

CALIFORNIA SENATE COMMITTEE REVIEWS GOVERNOR’S HEALTH PROPOSAL--QUESTIONS ABOUT AFFORDABIITY EMERGE--AND SO THE PROCESS BEGINS

February 16, 2007

Why I am Reintroducing the California Compassionate Choices Act

February 16, 2007

Strange Sightings Around the Capitol in Sacramento--The Crab and John Garamendi

February 16, 2007

Can Global Warming Control Be Our Generation's Apollo Mission?

February 15, 2007

Initiative to Modify California Term Limits Filed with Attorney General's Office--Strange Bedfellows Join Forces on Measure That Could be on Early Primary Ballot

February 15, 2007

Remember These Facts the Next Time a Claim is Made that Businesses are Leaving California Because of "Job Killing Bills" and "The Business Climate"

February 15, 2007

KICKING ONE HABIT TO START ANOTHER: ALTERNATIVE FUELS MUST BE WATCHED CAREFULLY IN FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING POLLUTION

February 15, 2007

HEARING TODAY ON SCHWARZENEGGER HEALTH PROPOSAL AS SACRAMENTO HEADS INTO BUSY CALENDAR ON MAJOR ISSUE OF THE YEAR

February 14, 2007

It's OUR Healthcare! is our site of the day

February 14, 2007

Perata's Observations on Moving the California Presidential Primary: Who Wins and Loses and What Else May Be Involved

February 14, 2007

“The Year of Health Reform” in California Gets Another Boost From New Group

February 14, 2007

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS SUPPORT WAR, TAX HIKES AND DEFICIT SPENDING?

February 14, 2007

Thoughts of a California Correctional Officer About Prisons, Inmates, and Their Keepers

February 14, 2007

Team Romney in the California Republican Primary--the Orange County Connection

February 13, 2007

Busy Day in Sacramento: Bills to Move Presidential Primary and Prison Sentencing Response to Recent US Supreme Court Decision Pass CA Senate; Perata Expansive at Press Conference-Term Limits, Redistricting, Banning Lobbyist Gifts; Healthcare Group Forms

February 13, 2007

“Promoting Health Information” by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office is our site of the day

February 13, 2007

New Poll on California Presidential Primary Shows Clinton Ahead of Obama 36% to 33%; Guiliani Leads Republicans with 33%

February 13, 2007

GOT WATER? CALIFORNIA'S TOP COURT REJECTS APPROVAL OF FRINGE DEVELOPMENT FOR FAILING TO ANALYZE LONG TERM WATER SUPPLY

February 13, 2007

Primary Scramble Prompts Calls to Slow Down by National Association of Secretaries of State

February 12, 2007

Uniform Term Limits--What We Need in California Now

February 12, 2007

San Francisco Values: Pelosi’s Faith and Immigrant Labor Rights

February 12, 2007

Is the GOP Machine Trying to Steal the OC Special Election?

February 12, 2007

California Needs Systemic Prison Reform, Not Exporting Prisoners Out of State

February 11, 2007

Obama Is In... Now Is California (and America) Ready?

February 11, 2007

Full Text of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Speech to State Republican Convention--What Do You Think?

February 10, 2007

REDISTRICTING ‘REFORM’ COULD TOPPLE DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER PELOSI – PRO TEM PERATA IS RIGHT TO OPPOSE IT

February 10, 2007

Republican Lawsuit Seeking to Nullify Jerry Brown's Election as California Attorney General Loses in Court--Judge Bases Ruling on Plain Language of the Law

February 10, 2007

Key California Assembly Democrats Back Redistricting Reform in Weekly Radio Address

February 9, 2007

California Republican Legislators--A Gang that Can't Shoot Straight on Prisons

February 9, 2007

Bill to Move California Presidential Primary Remains on Fast Track for Senate Floor Vote Next Tuesday

February 8, 2007

"CALPIRG 2006 State Legislative Scorecards" is our site of the day

February 8, 2007

ARE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS IN SUPPORT OF THE ‘PERIPHERAL CANAL’?

February 8, 2007

What an Early California Primary Means to the Nation

February 8, 2007

With Student Fees Rising and Professors at California Universities Talking of Strike Because of Low Pay, Legislation Introduced to Require Openness in Executive Pay Process

February 7, 2007

The Skids are Greased to Move California's Presidential Primary to February

February 7, 2007

Oceanic Microplastics Outweigh Plankton: California State Hearing Tomorrow on Bold Plan Against Plastic Litter and Waste

February 7, 2007

John Edwards Meets Arnold Schwarzenegger & Uses T Word

February 7, 2007

"Envisioning Futures for the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta" is our site of the day

February 7, 2007

State of Education Address by California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell

February 7, 2007

An Open Letter To The Democratic Leaders of the California Legislature for a Prop 103 Approach to Health Care Reform

February 7, 2007

Questions Raised About $500 Million BP-UC Berkeley Alternative Energy Deal

February 7, 2007

Biofuel and the BP-UC Berkeley Research Deal: A "Win-Win" Agenda?

February 6, 2007

"In His Own Words" on Capital Notes by John Myers is our site of the day

February 6, 2007

LEO T. McCARTHY

February 6, 2007

Why Newsom's Wi-Fi Deal Should Be Rejected and What Other California Cities Can Learn From San Francisco's Experience

February 6, 2007

Perata to Schwarzenegger on Taped Remarks : Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me

February 6, 2007

Bush Budget Would Cut California Health Care

February 6, 2007

Respecting the "Will of the People" is a Fickle Thing: Schwarzenegger, Prop 36, and the Taped Conversations

February 5, 2007

“Moving Forward: What Does the Governor’s Proposed 2007-08 Budget Mean for California” is our site of the day

February 5, 2007

How Far Will Redistricting Changes Get This Year in California?

February 5, 2007

Bush’s “Citizenship Tax” Reminiscent of Texas Poll Tax

February 4, 2007

Thoughts on Super Bowl Sunday About Super Bowl Tuesday in 2008

February 4, 2007

A Greener and Safer Future for Dry Cleaners Because California Acted

February 3, 2007

State of African Americans in California Examined in Weekly Democratic Radio Address

February 2, 2007

California Highway Patrol Report Clears Angelides Campaign and Faults Schwarzenegger for Lack of Security Over Tapes--But Not Without A Sense of Humor

February 2, 2007

"California Tribal Casinos: Questions and Answers" by the Legislative Analyst's Office is our site of the day

February 2, 2007

MAYOR NEWSOM MAKES TODAY’S SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE A COLLECTOR’S ITEM

February 2, 2007

A Third Cup of Coffee with Phil Angelides

February 2, 2007

The State of Black California

February 2, 2007

Californians Injured on the Job Are Suffering

February 2, 2007

Republicans: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee in Orange County!

February 1, 2007

The webcast of "The 2006 Governor's Race: An Inside View" is our site of the day

February 1, 2007

Package of Major Food Safety Bills Introduced by California State Senator Dean Florez

February 1, 2007

Remarks of California Senator Florez on Introducing Bills on E. coli Outbreak and Food Safety

February 1, 2007

A Second Cup of Coffee With Phil Angelides

February 1, 2007

Want Your District To Go From Red to Blue...Go Door-Door And Register Voters!

February 1, 2007

Irish E-voting--A Neocon Approach to be Avoided in California

January 31, 2007

California Moving Fast To Earlier Presidential Primary With New Signs that Term Limits and Redistricting Changes Are Also Coming

January 31, 2007

A Cup of Coffee with Phil Angelides

January 31, 2007

A February California Presidential Primary: Groundhog Day All Over Again

January 30, 2007

"23% - The New Online Political Elite" from the Pew Research Center is our site of the day

January 30, 2007

California Senate Republicans Offer Outline of Their "Health Care Plan"

January 30, 2007

Beware of the California Prison-Industrial Complex

January 29, 2007

New Poll Shows LA Voters Strongly Support "Living Wage Ordinance"--Implications for Other Parts of California

January 29, 2007

The "Web Resource Page for State Services" by Assemblymember Hayashi is our site of the day

January 29, 2007

A Primer on Dams and Water in California

January 29, 2007

With Democratic Congress, Lobbyists Turn Their Attention to States, Including California

January 29, 2007

The Iron Rainbow: Lack of Diversity at Some Local Fundraisers

January 28, 2007

Villaraigosa Speaks Against Iraq "Surge" in National Democratic Radio Address and Emphasizes How States and National Guard are Affected

January 28, 2007

Californians Want Their State Government to Spend More Money and Provide More Services, According to Poll

January 27, 2007

Assemblymember Nava Talks About “Infrastructure Bond Accountability” in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

January 26, 2007

Governor, You Need to Give Transit a Much Higher Priority to Protect the Environment

January 26, 2007

ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A CONTRIBUTOR TO AN ORGANIZATION IDENTIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURE AS “TERRORIST”?

January 26, 2007

New Poll and Yet Another Bipartisan Report Lead to the Same Conclusion: We Need to Reform Sentencing in California

January 26, 2007

"California Jobs Have Shifted Inland" from the California Budget Project is our site of the day

January 25, 2007

Californians Support Universal Health Care, Cost Sharing Plan In State, and Single Payer at Least at the Federal Level: Interpreting the New PPIC Poll

January 25, 2007

An Open Letter on California Prisons From Federal Court Receiver Robert Sillen

January 25, 2007

BUSH IRAQ POLICY BACKED BY 60% OF CALIFORNIA’S GOP--OPPOSED BY 70% OF THE ‘INDEPENDENTS’ AND 87% OF THE DEMOCRATS

January 25, 2007

Triple Play in the Works for California? Early Presidential Primary, Redistricting Reform, and Term Limit Loosening

January 25, 2007

A RISING SEA OF SUITS: PACKED HOUSE HEARS LATEST PLANS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CALIFORNIA’S GLOBAL WARMING LEGISLATION

January 24, 2007

The Sacramento Bee's new website for California Politics, "CapitolAlert," is our site of the day

January 24, 2007

Peter Schwartz Delivers the California State of the Union Speech of the Future

January 24, 2007

STATE PENSION SYSTEM INVESTS IN CALIFORNIA'S LARGEST PLANNED SPRAWL DEVELOPMENT

January 24, 2007

Different Views of the California Economy: Consider the Words of Senator Jim Webb Last Night and Those of Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt From the Past

January 24, 2007

President's Health Plan in State of the Union Address Would Gut California's HMO Patient Bill of Rights and is "Dead on Arrival"

January 24, 2007

While California Moves Forward, Bush Pushes Back on Health Care

January 24, 2007

Bush Health Ideas Would Help Too Few and Harm Middle Class--California Can Do Better

January 23, 2007

California Assembly Committee Appointments and Leadership Now Set

January 23, 2007

California Presidential Primary in February May Not Be the Best Move--Besides, There's a Much Better Way to Really Increase Our Clout

January 23, 2007

Moving the California Presidential Primary Up is a Terrible and a Good Idea

January 22, 2007

Apology from Reporter to Bloggers in Tauscher Brouhaha Shows a Pulse of...Democracy, if not a Bit of Heat

January 22, 2007

Why California Needs a Sentencing Commission

January 22, 2007

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER HOLDS ALL THE CARDS IN ANY REAL DISPUTE WITH MINORITY LEADER VILLINES

January 22, 2007

2008 Presidential Race Will Have a Western Accent and Be Good for California Democrats

January 21, 2007

January 21, 2007

January 21, 2007

Maria Shriver Enjoys Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue

January 20, 2007

2006 California Governor's Race Dissected by Panels of Top Campaign Strategists

January 20, 2007

Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King and Labor Leader Miguel Contreras Honored in Democratic Weekly Radio Address by Speaker of California Assembly

January 19, 2007

"Searching for Healthy Food: The Food Landscape in California Cities and Counties" is our site of the day

January 19, 2007

Politics or a Post-Partisan Approach to Prisons? A Sentencing Commission with Teeth Independent of the Department of Corrections is the Answer

January 19, 2007

Centrism in California: Just Some Political Form of Bipolar Disorder?

January 18, 2007

Will We Have Hospitals in California When the Big Quake Hits?

January 18, 2007

LABELING OF CLONED FOOD WILL GIVE CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS CLEAR CHOICES

January 17, 2007

California State Senate Committee Appointments Just Announced

January 17, 2007

Medical Students Back at the Capitol En Masse in Support of Single Payer n California

January 17, 2007

The Dirt on a Toxic Dry Cleaning Chemical: Why the State Must Act Quickly to Phase Out This Air and Water Contaminant

January 17, 2007

Making Voter Contact Data and Systems in California Elections Personal and Progressive

January 17, 2007

"Expanding Transitional Services for Emancipated Foster Youth: An Investment in California's Tomorrow " by the Children's Advocacy Institute is our site of the day

January 17, 2007

Orange County Republican Control Eroding Like Southern California's Seaside Cliffs

January 16, 2007

The Reality and the Rhetoric of Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Proposal

January 16, 2007

The Drum Major Institute 2006 Year in Review is our site of the day

January 16, 2007

Think It Doesn't Matter That We Have a Democratic Legislature? Think Again After Last Week--and Wait Until June!

January 15, 2007

A California Prison Proposal That is Disturbingly Akin to Eugenics

January 14, 2007

EARL WARREN SCHWARZENEGGER

January 13, 2007

California Assembly Budget Chair John Laird Discusses the Governor’s State of the State, the Budget, and Bipartisanship in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

January 12, 2007

The Legislative Analyst's Office Overview of the Governor’s Budget: 2007-08 is our site of the day

January 12, 2007

January 12, 2007

Go to a California Democratic Party Caucus Meeting This Weekend to Revitalize the Party--Invest Your Time in the Future

January 12, 2007

GOVERNOR, THE “PRICE IS WRONG” FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA

January 12, 2007

John Chiang's Speech Upon Taking Office as State Controller of California

January 12, 2007

Governor Slashes Prop. 36 Drug Treatment Funds, Turns Back On Prison Reform

January 12, 2007

How the AMT Became an ATM, Especially for California: The REAL STORY behind the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

January 12, 2007

How the AMT Became an ATM, Especially for California: The REAL STORY behind the Alternative Minimum Tax

January 12, 2007

AMT Failure: Congress Abdicates Responsibility Once Again by Failing to Follow California's Example

January 11, 2007

White Coats Outside the Capitol on Night of the State of the State Address: Future Doctors Concerned About Health Care

January 11, 2007

REDISTRICTING REDUX – A PRIMER FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS ISSUE WON’T GO AWAY

January 11, 2007

What the Governor's Budget Means to Californians and Democratic Party Values

January 11, 2007

California Republican Legislators Voice Different Views on the State Budget

January 11, 2007

Health Care in California: An Essay by Senator Sheila Kuehl

January 11, 2007

The California Budget: Health in Particular

January 11, 2007

The "Quick and Dirty Summary" of the Governor's Proposed Budget of the California Budget Project is our site of the day

January 10, 2007

Key Senator Lauds Inclusion of Food Safety Funds in California State Budget After Deadly E. Coli Outbreak, But Says Proposed Marketing Order "Leaves Fox Guarding the Hen House"

January 10, 2007

REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDERS SHOULD TREAD LIGHTLY IN THEIR CRITICISMS OF SCHWARZENEGGER

January 10, 2007

"Post-Partisan" Reactions to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address

January 10, 2007

A HICCUP IN "STATE OF STATE" SPEECH--NEW DAMS---IS GOVERNOR GETTING AMBUSHED BY PARTISAN SUPPORTERS?

January 10, 2007

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2007 State of the State Speech, Verbatim

January 10, 2007

California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer: Inaugural Address

January 10, 2007

STEPS FORWARD AND BACKWARD IN GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED CHANGES IN HEALTHCARE

January 9, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address—Reading the Lines

January 9, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger’s State of the State Address—Reading the Lines

January 9, 2007

GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER LEADS “NEW” REPUBLICAN PARTY AGENDA: MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR TAX INCREASES??

January 9, 2007

"Stay Healthy California" from the Office of the Governor is our site of the day

January 9, 2007

Too Much Politics, Partying, and Policy to Absorb in One Day: California State Inaugurations in Three Cities and the Governor's Health Proposal

January 9, 2007

DEBRA BOWEN SWORN IN AS CALIFORNIA SECRETARY OF STATE; WASTES NO TIME IN NAMING CRITIC OF E-VOTING, ATTORNEY LOWELL FINLEY, AS "'DEPUTY FOR VOTING SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY"

January 9, 2007

Schwarzenegger Proposal Spotlights Need for Health Reform But Places Risks and Burdens on Individuals

January 9, 2007

Schwarzenegger Health Care Plan a Mix of Good and Bad According to National Progressive Organization

January 9, 2007

California Nurses Describe Schwarzenegger Health Plan as "Fresh Coat of Paint on Collapsing House"

January 9, 2007

California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell Hearkens to Times of Change of Hiram Johnson and Pat Brown in Inaugural Address

January 8, 2007

Garamendi Sets Big Goals in Inaugural Speech as California's Lieutenant Governor

January 8, 2007

MAJOR CHANGES IN WATER POLICIES NEEDED TO AVOID CALIFORNIA ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

January 8, 2007

The live webcast of Debra Bowen's Inauguration as California Secretary of State is our site of the day

January 7, 2007

It's About Health Care, Stupid: The Frame in the California Debate

January 7, 2007

ACKERMAN: REPUBLICANS WILL OPPOSE SCHWARZENEGGER HEALTH PLAN UNLESS IT SCREENS OUT THE CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS WITHOUT DOCUMENTS

January 7, 2007

The Hopi Prayer Read by Maria Shriver at Inaugural Ceremony

January 6, 2007

2006: A Year of Growth for Clean Money in California

January 6, 2007

Health Care and Bipartisanship Are Themes of Speaker of the California Assembly in Weekly Democratic Radio Address

January 5, 2007

Governor Schwarzenegger's Second Inaugural Address--Complete Prepared Text

January 5, 2007

Irrigating Your Vegetables With Treated Sewage Water? Still Not a Good Idea if You Are Concerned About E. Coli

January 5, 2007

California Legislative Women's Caucus Celebrates as Pelosi Breaks the "Marble Ceiling"

January 5, 2007

Working Californians is our site of the day

January 5, 2007

THE NEW YEAR IN CALIFORNIA STARTS QUICKLY ON HEALTH REFORM AS GOVERNOR'S HEALTH PLAN DETAILS BEGIN TO LEAK OUT

January 5, 2007

California State Democratic Party Digging Out from Avalanche of Papers Submitted to Run for State Delegates: Elections on January 13 and 14

January 5, 2007

Looking at the Glass Another Way: What is California's "Employment Rate?"

January 4, 2007

Company that Certified Diebold Voting Machines in California Loses Federal Certification Because of Lax Procedures

January 4, 2007

SCOTT BAUGH GETS OFF ‘SCOT’ FREE IN REPUBLICAN VOTE FRAUD SCANDAL – THANKS TO SPEAKER WILLIE BROWN

January 4, 2007

Startling Field Poll Results Just Released on California Healthcare--Part Two of Extensive Survey

January 4, 2007

"Health Savings Accounts: No Solution for the Uninsured" by the California Budget Project is our site of the day

January 4, 2007

Why I'm Running for California Democratic Party Delegate

January 4, 2007

Report Card Shows California Kids' Status Undermines Public Health and Economy

January 4, 2007

ROLLING TO VICTORY IN THE NEW YEAR: GOOD NEWS FROM THE CALIFORNIA DELTA

January 4, 2007

Schwarzenegger Won't Attend Pre-Inaugural Events Today Due to Health But Other Events in State Capitol Are On Track for This Week and Next

January 3, 2007

New Field Poll Finds High Level of Concern About California's Health Care System--Strong Support for Government Action and Insuring as Many as Possible

January 3, 2007

Schwarzenegger Reappointment of Rachelle Chong to California Public Utilities Commission Comes Under Stinging Attack from Consumer Groups

January 3, 2007

Reduction of Greenhouse Gases in California Through Waste Prevention and Recycling

January 2, 2007

Attention California Democrats: Deadline to Run for Governing Board of Your State Party Extended to This Wednesday, January 3, Because of President Ford's Funeral

January 2, 2007

Compare Hiram Johnson's Inaugural speech of 1911 to the sorry spectacle we have of the intermingling of our state government and private interests with Governor Schwarzenegger using business contributions to pay for his inauguration and staff salaries

January 2, 2007

"Teacher Pay Reforms: The Political Implications of Recent Research" is our site of the day

January 2, 2007

California at the Crossroads--What Do We Want to Be?

January 2, 2007

Meddling, Pandering and Muddling in California Teacher Preparation

January 2, 2007

Death of Developmentally Disabled Man Exemplifies Need for Proper Care Whether in Institutions or Community Based Settings in California

January 1, 2007

Universal Health Care Run by Psychotics is our site of the day

January 1, 2007

Happy New Year from the California Progress Report

December 31, 2006

Reflections on California Policy and Politics in 2006: Stories to Read

December 31, 2006

Fixing the California Democratic Party--From the Bottom Up

December 30, 2006

Will Insurance Contributions Dictate California's Health Care Coverage Legislation in 2007?

December 30, 2006

Sharp Debate Over Crosses for Iraq War Dead in Lafayette, California

December 30, 2006

Speaker Nunez Wishes Californians a Happy New Year, Advances Effort to Slow Global Warming in the Democratic Weekly Radio Address

December 29, 2006

2006 for California Health Consumers: Big Victories & Momentum for Major Reform

December 29, 2006

SCHWARZENEGGER SHOULD HIRE A “GENERAL COUNSEL”

December 28, 2006

"Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Actions Needed to Clarify Responsibilities and Increase Preparedness for Evacuations" is our site of the day

December 28, 2006

The Ultimate Outsourcing of California State Government: Governor's Office and Legislature Now Funded by Special Interests

December 28, 2006

“SO VOTERS CAN CHOOSE POLITICIANS, NOT POLITICIANS CHOOSING VOTERS.” – ANALYSIS BY PHRASE

December 28, 2006

CALIFORNIA REDISTRICTING: MY THOUGHTS

December 28, 2006

Some Assembly Bills That Will Take Effect as California Law on January 1, 2007

December 27, 2006

The Utility Consumers' Action Network is our site of the day

December 27, 2006

“COME ONE STEP CLOSER AND I’LL SHOOT THE REPUBLICAN”--Mike Villines, GOP leader

December 27, 2006

REDISTRICTING: THE THIRTY YEARS WAR IN CALIFORNIA

December 26, 2006

Update on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Health

December 26, 2006

PROGRESSIVE SLATE FOR CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY DELEGATE is our site of the day

December 26, 2006

Secretary of State Faces Tough Tests, But Bowen is Up to the Task

December 26, 2006

REPUBLICANS IN THE LAND OF CALIFORNIA, 2006

December 24, 2006

California Legislature Gets Houses in Order for New Session: Committee Chairs and Schedules

December 24, 2006

CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY AND SENATE COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR 2007 SESSION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DISABLED AND SENIOR COMMUNITIES

December 23, 2006

Speaker Nunez Outlines Fair Share Health Care Proposal to Cover All Californians In Democratic Weekly Radio Address

December 22, 2006

Schwarzenegger's Press Office Admits Prison Guards Union Was Calling the Shots Last Year

December 22, 2006

"Governing the Academy: Who’s the Boss?" is our site of the day

December 22, 2006

HOW HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PROPOSAL OF CALIFORNIA SPEAKER OF ASSEMBLY NUNEZ STACKS UP AGAINST OTHER PROPOSALS

December 22, 2006

WOULD “RANDOMLY CHOSEN CITIZENS COMMISSION” RE-INVENT REDISTRICTING COMMISSION, TAX-PAID CAMPAIGN SCHEMES?

December 22, 2006

Water Returns to Owens River, Reclaiming "the Switzerland of California" from the Desert

December 21, 2006

A "Fair Share" Health Care Plan That Puts Children First

December 21, 2006

PERATA ANNOUNCES CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE COMMITTEE CHAIRS

December 21, 2006

"An Analysis of Pre-election Field Polls Regarding Proposition 86, the Tax on Cigarettes Initiative" is our site of the day

December 21, 2006

INDUSTRY THREATENS TO MAKE THE HOLIDAYS SLUSHY, ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES FIGHT BACK

December 21, 2006

So Much for "Moderation": A Vote for Arnold was a Vote for More Prisons

December 21, 2006

California Legislature Should Make Badge Rule Clear and Review Problems Statewide

December 20, 2006

"Can Where People Vote Influence How They Vote? The Influence of Polling Location Type on Voting Behavior" is our site of the day

December 20, 2006

“Son” of Prop 90--Right-Wing Extremists Are Back to Gather Signatures

December 19, 2006

"Health Insurance, Health Care Use, and Health Status in Los Angeles", released today by the Public Policy Institute of California, is our site of the day

December 19, 2006

Senator Florez Questions Industry Self-Regulation on Food Safety

December 19, 2006

You Want Bipartisanship? An Open Letter to Governor Schwarzenegger to Fire Cabinet Secretary Because of Memo Attacking Civil Servants, Consumer Advocates, and Legislators

December 18, 2006

Analysis of Final Election Returns in California “Down Ticket Races”

December 18, 2006

VILLONES CALLS FOR “REFORM”: STACK THE GAME TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR REPUBLICANS TO WIN (?)

December 18, 2006

The 2008 Presidential Primaries: Another Inconvenient Truth

December 17, 2006

Let’s Hope Speculation That California’s Budget Will Be Balanced on the Backs of the Poor is Incorrect

December 16, 2006

Perata Speaks of Expanding Health Care Coverage to All Working Californians in Democratic Radio Address

December 16, 2006

Primary Campaign Brewing Against Ellen Tauscher in California Congressional District 10

December 16, 2006

"Californians Aware" Has Banner Year of Protecting Open Government and Free Speech

December 15, 2006

BORDER FENCE BUILT TO KEEP ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OUT WAS CONSTRUCTED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS?

December 15, 2006

Analysis of the Final Returns on California Ballot Propositions Including Strange Factoids

December 14, 2006

"California's Minimum Wage Policy Points" is our site of the day

December 14, 2006

IMMIGRATION REFORM BACKLASH AIDS DEMOCRATS IN CALIFORNIA AS IT DID NATIONALLY IN BONILLA CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN TEXAS

December 14, 2006

Final California Election Returns Reveal Interesting Patterns and Quirks in Statewide Office Races Starting with Schwarzenegger's Win

December 14, 2006

California Voter Turnout Was 56.2% in November--Not a Record Low and Higher Than Many Reported

December 14, 2006

Setting the Record Straight on Gun Control in California

December 13, 2006

WILLIE BROWN TO EMCEE INAUGURAL OF GOVERNOR??

December 13, 2006

Perata's Health Care Plan: Preliminary Analysis From A Consumer Advocate

December 13, 2006

Poll Shows Support for California "Citizens Assembly" to Recommend Changes Designed to Give Voters More Choice Including "Independent" Candidates

December 12, 2006

Perata Announces Comprehensive Health Care Plan--Speaker and Governor Issue Statements--California Stage Being Set for Big Deal in 2007

December 12, 2006

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A ‘BAD’ BOY. PRISON REFORM IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

December 12, 2006

"Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism, 2006" is our site of the day

December 12, 2006

California's Public Hospitals in Crisis: Failure to Meet Earthquake Standards Will Put Us in the Lurch When We Need Them the Most

December 11, 2006

Election Day Registration from the Progressive States Network is our site of the day

December 11, 2006

Law and Public Policy Support Lockyer's Suit Against Auto Manufacturers for CO2 Emissions

December 11, 2006

TIME FOR THE N.R.A. TO BE SOMETHING OTHER THAN A REPUBLICAN PARTY SUBSIDIARY?

December 11, 2006

California's Desperate Need for Prison and Sentencing Reform

December 10, 2006

California Should Not Leave Us Vulnerable to Election Year Market Manipulation by Our State's Oil Refinery Oligopoly

December 10, 2006

Oil Companies’ Record 3rd Quarter Profit Reports Omitted “October Surprise” Profit Drop Matches Gasoline-Pricing Pattern of Two Previous Election Years

December 9, 2006

CADEM Assembly District Info

December 9, 2006

Silent Revolution: Become The California Democratic Party

December 9, 2006

Speaker Nunez Lays Out Assembly Democrats’ Goals and Tone for Session in Weekly Radio Address

December 8, 2006

A Small Victory for Ordinary Taxpayers in California

December 8, 2006

HOW SCHWARZENEGGER DID IT

December 8, 2006

2006 General Election Voter Profiles is our site of the day

December 8, 2006

Civil Rights Act of 2007 Introduced in California Assembly

December 8, 2006

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AIDS JERRY BROWN LANDSLIDE

December 8, 2006

Hold the Applause for the Disney Company on Marketing Food to Children

December 7, 2006

"IMMIGRATION" FIVE TIMES MORE IMPORTANT THAN PUBLIC EDUCATION TO NON-LOS ANGELES VOTERS??

December 7, 2006

Proponents of Public Funding of Elections Have Work Cut Out for Them According to New PPIC Poll

December 7, 2006

Public Policy Institute of California Post-Election Voter Survey

December 7, 2006

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF CITIZEN JOURNALISM VIDEO

December 6, 2006

Work Comp Fraud; Stop the Hypocrisy

December 6, 2006

HEALTH CARE IS BACK--AT THE TOP OF CALIFORNIA'S LIST: NEW LEGISLATORS, NEW BILLS

December 6, 2006

Digging Up Trouble: The Health Risks of Construction Pollution in California is our site of the day

December 6, 2006

13 MONTHS AFTER A DECISIVE DEFEAT AT THE POLLS SCHWARZNEGGER RECESITATES ‘REDISTRICING REFORM’- TO “GUARANTEE…THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE”!?

December 6, 2006

Remarks of Fabian Nunez Upon Being Chosen Speaker of the California Assembly for Third Time

December 5, 2006

"Toward Fair Cures: Integrating the Benefits of Diversity in the California Stem Cell Research Act" is our site of the day

December 5, 2006

California Assembly Begins 2007-2008 Session

December 5, 2006

DEUS EX MACHINA – WILL REDISTRICTING RESTORE THE CONTROL OF “KEN MADDY” REPUBLICANS?

December 5, 2006

Redistricting and the California Democratic Party

December 5, 2006

Democratic State Senators Caucusing at Retreat--Most Committee Chairs Not Announced Yet

December 5, 2006

Perata Chosen to Lead California State Senate Again and Looks for Results in Final Two Years

December 5, 2006

New Committee Chairs and Leadership Team Appointed in California State Assembly

December 4, 2006

REDISTRICTING – BEWARE REFORMERS BEARING ‘GIFTS’

December 4, 2006

Redistricting Reform is Not Stupid, Driven by Self Interest, or a Confession That Democratic Ends Are Not Important

December 3, 2006

Interregnum: Technically, There is No California Legislature Today

December 2, 2006

The Future of California Education: Research and Resources

December 2, 2006

Fair Shake for California in Federal Funding Asked for in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

December 1, 2006

O'Connell's Approach to Education Funding Should be the Way We Look at All of California Government

December 1, 2006

Children NOW poll on California education funding and reform is our site of the day

November 30, 2006

Size of California Legislature Should be Increased--Districts Are Too Large

November 30, 2006

Assemblymember Wilma Chan's Exit Interview--Until 2008

November 29, 2006

CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE DEBATE HEATS UP

November 29, 2006

"The Crossroads" at the Sacramento Bee is our site of the day

November 29, 2006

Schwarzenegger is Really an "Immigration Liberal" According to Joe Mathews

November 28, 2006

Peripheral Pipeline Bill to be Reintroduced When Legislature Reconvenes

November 28, 2006

"California's Community College Students", a report by the Public Policy Institute of California is our site of the day

November 28, 2006

Schwarzenegger Challenged to Make Health Care Affordable By Limiting HMO & Drug Company Profiteering

November 28, 2006

REPUBLICANS GET ‘IN TOUCH’ WITH THEIR CONSTITUENTS

November 28, 2006

California Republicans Don't Need to Audit Where Campaign Money Went

November 28, 2006

Building a Progressive Majority in the States

November 27, 2006

Election Proves Instant Runoff Voting Is Catching On in California and Other States

November 27, 2006

Attempt to Silence Blogger a Pattern in Orange County?

November 26, 2006

Why Do We Have Elections in California?

November 25, 2006

CORREA WINS…BY FRAUD? A TRICK?

November 25, 2006

California Democratic Legislators Express Thanks for Opportunity to Serve and Urge Communities to Help Others During this Thanksgiving Holiday in Radio Address

November 24, 2006

Digital Fishwrap Reconsidered: Should Newspapers Delay Release of Their Content on the Internet?

November 23, 2006

Californians: Give Thanks If You Have Health Insurance and Protect Others Who Do Not

November 22, 2006

Protecting Water Quality in California's Delta, or "Hey Reckless Driver, May I See Your License?"

November 21, 2006

HEALTH ACCESS: Expanded Blog for Expanded Debate on Health Reform

November 21, 2006

State Senate Race 34 Final Figures, Correa Wins, and a Post Mortem On All the Dirty Business Behind the Orange Curtain

November 20, 2006

A Challenge for California Progressives in the Next Two Years: Economic Inequality

November 20, 2006

California State University Executive Packages Out of Whack When Compared With Professors' Compensation

November 19, 2006

California Election Turnout Higher Than Reported--Real Analysis Should Await the Facts

November 18, 2006

Democrat Lou Correa Has Won Hotly Contested State Senate Race in Orange County--Now the Charges Fly

November 18, 2006

Bipartisan Cooperation in Closing Budget Gap Urged by Assemblymember Torrico in Democratic Radio Address

November 17, 2006

California Election Analysis and Update: Democrat Correa Pulls Ahead in State Senate Race; 80th Assembly District Race Between Clute and Garcia Too Close to Call

November 16, 2006

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM - A SHORT HISTORY AND A MODEST PROPOSAL

November 15, 2006

The Report of the Legislative Analyst's Office on projected state revenues and expenditures is our site of the day

November 15, 2006

Arnold Schwarzenegger and the “I Heart Spinach” Program or Has the “Terminator” Become the “Germ-a-nator”?

November 15, 2006

State Senate Race Even Closer--Many Ballots Left to be Counted in California

November 14, 2006

What We Learned in the 80th Assembly District Race: Bonnie Garcia vs. Steve Clute

November 14, 2006

The 2006 California Election Roundtable is our site of the day

November 14, 2006

34th Senate District Vote Count: A Real Cliffhanger Between Correa and Daucher

November 14, 2006

As Census Reports Deepening Racial Divide, California Legislators and Governor Fail to Provide Solutions

November 13, 2006

Do We Give Up on Campaign Finance Reform in California?

November 12, 2006

Debates Within California Democratic and Republican Parties on Election Performance

November 11, 2006

Assemblymember De La Torre Vows Continued Bipartisan Cooperation in Coming Year in Democratic Radio Address

November 11, 2006

What Does it Mean to be "Bipartisan" in California?

November 10, 2006

Setting the California Progressive Agenda for 2007

November 10, 2006

Reflections of a Consumer Advocate on the California Election

November 9, 2006

Speaker of the Assembly Nunez Lays Out Agenda for California in Context of State and National Election Results

November 9, 2006

Prop. 89: We’ve Opened a Door for Reform That Will Never Be Closed

November 9, 2006

Chiang's Victory Critical for California's Tax System

November 8, 2006

The California Secretary of State Live Elections Return page is our site of the day

November 8, 2006

POST-ELECTION OUTLOOK ON HEALTH REFORM IN CALIFORNIA

November 8, 2006

California Elected Team Celebrates in Oakland Amidst Smiles and Tears of Joy

November 8, 2006

Now That the Polls Have Closed: A New Idea for Improving the Voting Process

November 8, 2006

Big Tobacco Snuffs Out Cigarette Tax in California

November 8, 2006

In Closest California State Races, Garamendi is Elected Lieutenant Governor and Bowen as Secretary of State; Chiang Wins Controller by Comfortable Margin

November 8, 2006

Democratic Wave Did Not Stop at California Border

November 8, 2006

All California Statewide Bonds Pass as Does Proposition 83 on Sex Offenders. Propositions 85 through 90 All Fail

November 7, 2006

The Hot California Races and How the Election Will Trend From Early Evening to Tomorrow or Beyond

November 7, 2006

In California, It's Election Today--Action Tomorrow

November 7, 2006

My Thoughts on Election Day

November 7, 2006

Election Predictions from the Tehachapis

November 7, 2006

Vote Today to Change Our Country

November 7, 2006

High Level of Interest in Outcome of Election in California--But There's Work Cut Out for Us--Right Now

November 6, 2006

Field Poll Director Says Turnout Will Matter on Many California Races

November 6, 2006

The Stem Cell Research Report Card is our site of the day

November 6, 2006

California Voter Guides You Can Trust

November 6, 2006

Last Minute Dirty Trick--Harassing Robo Phone Calls in Pombo, Doolittle, and Bilbray Congressional Districts That Appear to be from Democratic Opponent

November 5, 2006

Debra Bowen's Voter Bill of Rights Demonstrates Bedrock Principles That Will Guide Her as Secretary of State

November 5, 2006

Below the California Governor's Race: Reasons to Vote and Information About Candidates and Ballot Measures

November 4, 2006

Two Lessons for California Voters: Don't Trust Phony Slate Mailers and the Tobacco Industry

November 4, 2006

John Chiang Discusses California Stem Cell Research in Democratic Radio Address

November 4, 2006

Reading the Tea Leaves: Democratic Vote in California Looks Strong Based on Early Absentee Ballots--But Votes From Election Day Will Be Crucial

November 4, 2006

Field Poll Shows Bonds Passing By Large Margins. Late Internal Polls Show Alternative to Oil Prop 87 Back in the Lead

November 4, 2006

Voters Should Delete Poochigian’s Spam Email Campaign

November 3, 2006

The McClintock and Strickland Record on Consumer and Auto Safety Legislation

November 3, 2006

Field Poll: Turnout to Determine 3 State Offices: Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, and Controller

November 3, 2006

As You Sort Out the Ballot, Protect Vulnerable Teens and Reject Proposition 85

November 3, 2006

Deadly Pathogens and Science vs. PR and Politics: Spinach in Monterey County

November 3, 2006

Why Rely on Newspapers for Endorsements? Create Your Own Voter Guide

November 3, 2006

Proposition 90: Limiting Regulation of Private Property – NO

November 3, 2006

"A Progressive California Voter Guide" from The Center for American Progress Action Fund is our site of the day

November 2, 2006

Tonight, Watch the HBO Documentary "Hacking Democracy" and Vote for Debra Bowen for California Secretary of State

November 2, 2006

Intuit’s Million Dollar Check: Pay to Play Politics at its Worst

November 2, 2006

Proposition 85 is Bad for the Health and Safety of Teens in California: Why I Oppose it as a Physician

November 2, 2006

Field Poll Shows Very Close Races on Propositions 85 (Abortion), 86 (Tobacco Tax), and 87 (Oil Severance Tax). Prop 90 (Government Regulation) is Now Losing 42-35.

November 2, 2006

Californians and Homeless Children Need Proposition 1C

November 2, 2006

Author of California's Stem Cell Research Initiative on the Importance of the Lieutenant Governor in This Election

November 2, 2006

Teachers are Supporting Steve Clute Over Bonnie Garcia in 80th Assembly District

November 1, 2006

A Timely Study on Oil Influence in California Politics

November 1, 2006

Chiang is the Best Candidate for California Controller--The Reasons Behind the Last Minute Independent Expenditures Against Him Only Confirm This

November 1, 2006

Chameleon of Convenience: A Republican Governor in California

November 1, 2006

Citizen Voice is our site of the day

November 1, 2006

It Will Save Lives--Think About That if You Are On the Fence on Prop 86

November 1, 2006

Field Poll Shows Schwarzenegger Ahead of Angelides 49% to 33% and Feinstein Winning Senate by Even Larger Margin

October 31, 2006

McClintock's Unbroken Opposition to Stem Cell Research is Reason Enough to Vote for Garamendi for California Lt. Governor

October 31, 2006

Stem Cells, Democrats, and Moral Vision: California Election is Crucial to Medical Advances

October 31, 2006

IN CALIFORNIA, OUR "ELECTION DAY" IS UNDERWAY

October 31, 2006

"What Are Americans Voting For?" is our site of the day

October 31, 2006

Arguments Against Prop 87 (Oil Severance Tax) Crumble Under Analysis--Even That of a Conservative Economics Professor

October 30, 2006

California League of Conservation Voters 2006 California Environmental Scorecard is Very Revealing

October 30, 2006

California African Americans Organize Against Big Tobacco and for Prop 86

October 30, 2006

McClintock and Strickland - Too Extreme for California: The Record

October 30, 2006

Proposition 85: Parental Notification for Minors Getting Abortions – NO (Again)

October 30, 2006

California Political News and Opinion for Monday, October 30, 2006

October 29, 2006

Voting for Bonds: Why California Propositions 1A Through 1E and 84 Make Sense

October 29, 2006

California Political News and Opinion for Sunday, October 29, 2006

October 29, 2006

Republican Microtargeting -- and Race Baiting in California

October 28, 2006

BlacksforProp86.org is our site of the day

October 28, 2006

Reach Out and Tip Someone: A Challenge for All Politically Active Californian Progressives

October 28, 2006

Steve Westly Discusses California's Clean Tech Economy and the Governor's Race in Democrats' Weekly Radio Address

October 28, 2006

Prop 90 in the 4th Assembly District Race: Stark Differences in Vision and Leadership

October 27, 2006

Debra Bowen for California Secretary of State: Honest Abe Lincoln Without the Stovepipe Hat?

October 27, 2006

Large Out of State Donors Backing Prop 90 Conceal Identity

October 27, 2006

Why Prison Reform Doesn’t Happen

October 26, 2006

The Proposition Song Video by the California Voter Foundation is our site of the day

October 26, 2006

State Controller Candidate John Chiang is "Victim of Political Drive-by Shooting" Says Speaker of the Assembly: Read the Facts Behind This Charge, It May Affect Your Vote.

October 26, 2006

California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres' Surprisingly Frank Discussion at the Institute of Governmental Studies

October 26, 2006

Latest PPIC Poll Has Schwarzenegger Ahead of Angelides 48 to 30%, Bond Package Ahead, Prop 84 Slightly Behind, and Much Food for Thought

October 26, 2006

LATEST SURVEY UNDERSCORES IRRELEVANCY OF SURVEYS WHEN VOTERS SPEAK

October 26, 2006

Letterman's Top Ten list of "Questions to ask yourself before voting for Schwarzenegger"

October 25, 2006

Attention California Voters on Prop 90: New Poll Shows Oregon Voters Now Regret Similar Measure They Passed in 2004

October 25, 2006

Appointed Incumbent's Failure to Appear on Radio Shows and Debates in Tight Secretary of State's Race is Baffling

October 25, 2006

Why I am Running for California State Treasurer

October 25, 2006

California Air Board Faces Pressure From Schwarzenegger and Others on Global Warming and Implementing AB 32

October 25, 2006

Garamendi Wins Debate for Lieutenant Governor and Endorsement of San Francisco Chronicle

October 25, 2006

"Pete Rates the Propositions" is our site of the day

October 24, 2006

Schwarzenegger Election Flip on Driver's License

October 24, 2006

OLD CAMPAIGN HABITS DIE HARD

October 24, 2006

Yes On Props 86 and 87--Follow the Tobacco and Oil Money and Consider the Arguments

October 23, 2006

Worries of a Mother About Prop 85

October 23, 2006

Perata Blasts Governor Over Global Warming Bill

October 23, 2006

Proposition 90: The Most Evil Ballot Measure for the Environment California Has Seen

October 23, 2006

Debra Bowen for California Secretary of State: It's a Word of Mouth, One Voter at a Time Campaign

October 23, 2006

Different Stories on the Orange County Voter Intimidation Letter

October 23, 2006

The Election 2006 Blog and Hot Topics of the Institute for Governmental Studies is our site of the day

October 22, 2006

Debra Bowen Adds Today's SF Chronicle Endorsement to Advantages in Tight Race for Secretary of State

October 22, 2006

Thoughtful Comments of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Who Says He May Not Run for Reelection

October 21, 2006

Prop 90—A Trojan Horse for California

October 21, 2006

PBS Show Shines Light on Los Angeles and Long Beach Port Air Pollution and Its Devastating Health Effects

October 20, 2006

Attempted Swift Boating of Jerry Brown Backfiring on Republican Candidate for AG Poochigian

October 20, 2006

Leno's Top Ten List on Angelides and Schwarzenegger

October 20, 2006

TOP 10 CRITICAL REASONS WHY EVERY DEMOCRAT MUST SUPPORT ANGELIDES FOR GOVERNOR

October 20, 2006

"Can Clean Elections Save Our Democracy?" National TV Covers California Clean Money Prop 89 Tonight

October 20, 2006

Why Debra Bowen Should be the Next California Secretary of State

October 19, 2006

Steve Westly: Why I Support John Chiang for State Controller

October 19, 2006

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNS NAMED AS SOURCE OF VOTER INTIMIDATION IN ORANGE COUNTY

October 19, 2006

Bowen Shows She Will Protect Voters in Chronicle Secretary of State Debate With McPherson

October 19, 2006

Message to Locals in California Disasters: YOYO--You're on Your Own

October 19, 2006

Anti-Choice Voters Will Flock to Polls on Prop 85 and Pass Measure Defeated in Special Election if We Don't Get Our Vote Out

October 19, 2006

PAID SICK DAYS ON SF BALLOT MAY BE MODEL FOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA

October 19, 2006

The Stalking Horse of California--No on Proposition 90

October 18, 2006

California Now Paying More for Poorer Quality Medical Care for Prisoners

October 17, 2006

A Vetoed Bill California Should Reconsider to Implement AB 32 on Global Warming

October 17, 2006

People Love New Prop 89 Ad "Stop the Pounding"

October 17, 2006

The Proposition Song is our site of the day

October 17, 2006

A Few Questions About Schwarzenegger's Latest Out of State Trip

October 17, 2006

Power to the People: New Web Database Allows You to Make Connections Between Money and Politics in California

October 16, 2006

The live interview of Phil Angelides, Democratic candidate for governor, by the San Francisco Chronicle is our site of the day

October 16, 2006

“How Big Should That Campaign Donation Be, Bonnie?”

October 16, 2006

Garamendi Uses McClintock's Own Words to Hoist Him on His Own Petard in Race for California Lt. Governor

October 15, 2006

What's at Stake in November's Election in California and Why it is Even More Important That We Turn Out the Vote

October 14, 2006

President Clinton: Why I Support Proposition 87 and Why the Oil Companies are Wrong--The Complete Speech Delivered at UCLA

October 14, 2006

Meet the Press Covering the California Governor and Clean Money Campaigns

October 14, 2006

Senator Debra Bowen Urges Californians to “Register, Vote and Review” in Democrats Weekly Radio Address

October 14, 2006

Angelides Won That Debate-- Too Bad It May Not Matter

October 13, 2006

Monterey Cover-up on Cause of Spinach and Lettuce Contamination?

October 13, 2006

"One in Five Californians uninsured, Despite Modest Gains in Coverage" is our site of the day

October 13, 2006

The Role of the Attorney General in Stem Cell Research and Why I Support Jerry Brown

October 13, 2006

Leadership, Not Catch Up, Needed in California Secretary of State Office

October 12, 2006

October 12, 2006

NEW AD IN SUPPORT OF PHIL ANGELIDES CALLING HIM A “GOVERNOR WE CAN TRUST” AND THE FACTS THAT BACK IT UP

October 12, 2006

The SF Chronicle Debates in the State Controller and Insurance Commissioner Races is our site of the day

October 12, 2006

Schwarzenegger's Statement on Assimilation--A Campaign Ploy or Pie en Boca?

October 12, 2006

Food Safety Expert Testifies at California Senate Hearing on Need for State Action on E. coli Outbreak

October 11, 2006

Schwarzenegger on the Leno Show: Consider the Pattern

October 11, 2006

DISGUSTING COMMERCIAL PROVES POOCHIGIAN IS AN EXTREMIST

October 11, 2006

Debra Bowen: A Powerhouse California Secretary of State Rather Than an Appointed Placeholder

October 11, 2006

Schwarzenegger Veto of Attorney General Corporate Scofflaw Bill is Bad News for Environment, Families, and Taxpayers

October 10, 2006

TotalCapitol.com is our site of the day

October 10, 2006

Why Do We Abandon Science in Favor of PR? Orange County Follies

October 10, 2006

The California Republican and Arnold Schwarzenegger Message: Don't Bother To Vote (Like You Did in the Special Election)

October 10, 2006

In the Wake of the Foley Scandal There’s Another California House Seat In Reach: Bill Durston Has a Shot at Dan Lungren

October 10, 2006

Sierra at the Crossroads: Bringing the Environment Back into Politics

October 9, 2006

Powerful Ad by Al Gore in Support of Prop 87 Speaks Directly to the Camera and Voter

October 9, 2006

The Schwarzenegger and Angelides Gubernatorial "Conversational Debate" is our site of the day

October 9, 2006

E. coli: Why Monterey County Made a Poor Decision on the Type of Water to Use for Irrigation of Their Croplands

October 9, 2006

E. coli: Is There a Cover-up of Poor Decisions on the Type of Water Used for Irrigation of Croplands in the Salinas Valley?

October 9, 2006

California Republican Legislators Benefit After Pushing Casino Deal At End of Session--Abramoff Scandal Déjà Vu?

October 9, 2006

Governor's Veto of California Child Safety Seat Bill Ignores Federal Recommendations

October 8, 2006

A Preliminary Analysis: Both Schwarzenegger and Angelides Reflected Their Party's Perspectives in Last Night's Debate

October 7, 2006

Angelides "Debate Watching Party" Buoyed by Phil's Performance

October 7, 2006

Angelides Debate Watching Party Buoyed by Phil's Performance

October 7, 2006

The Schwarzenegger-Angelides "Debate" Tonight--Not Exactly the Lincoln-Stephens Debates of 1858

October 7, 2006

Assemblymembers De La Torre and Jones Highlight Efforts to Protect Private Property in Democrats Weekly Radio Address

October 7, 2006

California Young Democrats Hope to be the Margin of Victory

October 7, 2006

Consumer, Health Groups, and Chair of California Assembly Health Committee Call for Withdrawal of Anti Prop 86 Ads, Citing Public Health Concerns

October 6, 2006

The Clearest Choice on the California November Ballot: Lt. Governor

October 6, 2006

DENNIS HASTERT’S CROW PLATE SPECIAL

October 6, 2006

When Ideology Rules, Consumers Pay: The Schwarzenegger Public Utilities Commission Decision to Deregulate Phone Service

October 6, 2006

Analysis of Schwarzenegger's Vetoes Shows a Very Partisan Pattern: 94.3% of Bills Were By Democrats and only 5.7% by Republicans

October 5, 2006

Today's Debate Between AG Candidates Jerry Brown and Chuck Poochigian is our site of the day

October 5, 2006

Do you think as Attorney General, Senator Chuck Poochigian would enforce California's gun laws?

October 5, 2006

A Grandmother's Totally Digital Campaign for Re-election to the California State Assembly

October 4, 2006

"Propositions 1B, 1C, 1D, and 1E: The Public Works Bond Package" by the California Budget Project is our site of the day

October 4, 2006

CHRONIC UNDERSTAFFING OF DNA LAB ALLOWS THOUSANDS OF CRIMES TO GO UNSOLVED IN CALIFORNIA

October 4, 2006

Democrats Get Tired of Being "Product Placement" Props for Schwarzenegger in Public Appearances

October 4, 2006

SCHWARZENEGGER RECORD MIXED ON ENVIRONMENT BILLS PER PLANNING AND CONSERVATION LEAGUE

October 4, 2006

New Field Poll Shows Cigarette and Oil Companies Impact on Props 86 and 87--What Do the Numbers Mean?

October 4, 2006

Easy Voter Guide and www.easyvoter.org simplify election information for California voters

October 4, 2006

Schwarzenegger Veto of National Popular Vote Bill Keeps Californians Untermenschen

October 3, 2006

The "Just News" Blog is our site of the day

October 3, 2006

Squaring the Polls With What Angelides Must Do in the Remaining Days Before the Election

October 3, 2006

Speier Calls on President Bush to Pay $6.5 Billion Tab

October 3, 2006

Speak Out California Voter Guide

October 2, 2006

THE 2006 GENERAL ELECTION VOTER GUIDE from Speak Out California is our site of the day

October 2, 2006

KEY CALIFORNIA HEALTH BILLS SIGNED & VETOED IN 2006

October 2, 2006

KEY CALIFORNIA HEALTH BILLS SIGNED & VETOED IN 2006

October 2, 2006

The Importance of Vetoes in Judging Schwarzenegger's Record: Waiting to be Written

October 2, 2006

John Chiang Is Right Choice for State Controller

October 2, 2006

DOES NON-VOTING CONDEMN OUR POLITICS?

October 1, 2006

This Sunday Morning: A Time to Reflect on California and Its Future

September 30, 2006

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER JOHN GARAMENDI CALLS FOR REFORM OF STATE’S BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN WEEKLY RADIO ADDRESS

September 30, 2006

San Francisco Chronicle's Bold Move Opening Up Endorsement Process May Be Wave of the Future

September 30, 2006

GOVERNOR SIGNS SB 1379 (PERATA-ORTIZ) TO CREATE NATION’S FIRST STATE BIOMONITORING PROGRAM

September 30, 2006

Mobile Voter Uses Text Messaging for California Voter Registration

September 30, 2006

KEY CALIFORNIA BILL SIGNED TO PREVENT HOSPITAL OVERCHARGING

September 29, 2006

GOVERNOR VETOES BOWEN INITIATIVE REFORM MEASURE, SAYS LETTING VOTERS KNOW WHO IS BANKROLLING MEASURES IS “EXPENSIVE AND ONEROUS”

September 29, 2006

End of Time Approaching for Governor to Sign or Veto Hundreds of Bills in California

September 29, 2006

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNS LANDMARK PRESCRIPTION DRUG DISCOUNT PLAN

September 29, 2006

The "2006 Healthcare Quality Report Card:Rating California's HMOs and Medical Groups" is our site of the day

September 29, 2006

Turnout of Voter Subgroups Can Have Dramatic Impact on Governor's Election: New Poll Shows Schwarzenegger Problems with Spanish Speaking Likely Voters

September 29, 2006

New Landmark Laws Overhaul California's Troubled Conservatorship System

September 29, 2006

KEY CALIFORNIA HEALTH BILLS STILL ON GOVERNOR'S DESK

September 28, 2006

"The Fiscal Impact of Proposition 90," just released, is our site of the day

September 28, 2006

PPIC Voter Survey Shows Larger Schwarzenegger Lead, But Also Opportunities for Angelides: Voters' Thoughts on Candidates and Ballot Measures Are More Nuanced and Complex.

September 28, 2006

The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Poll: What They Say About Schwarzenegger and Angelides Race for Governor, the Voters, and Other Issues

September 28, 2006

Opponents of Prop 89 and Clean Money Weave a Tangled Web

September 28, 2006

A New Government for California--Parliamentary

September 27, 2006

Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California is our site of the day

September 27, 2006

No Doubt About it--Good Poll News for Schwarzenegger. Are There Any Rays of Hope for Angelides?

September 27, 2006

Support Voters First Pledge Nationally and Prop 89 Here in California

September 26, 2006

Even The California Taxpayers’ Association Votes to Oppose Proposition 90

September 26, 2006

View New Ads on Schwarzenegger's Legacy of Distrust and Broken Promises and Read the Supporting Facts

September 26, 2006

In Prop 86 Fight Between Hospitals (Pro) and Tobacco (Con), Tie Could be Broken by Consumer Groups in Favor

September 26, 2006

California Nurses Remember the Old Schwarzenegger and Continue To Hound Him

September 25, 2006

CATCH 22 on Party Registration and the Way Campaigns are Run in California

September 25, 2006

What Would Proposition 88 Mean for California? is our site of the day

September 25, 2006

Immigration: Too Hot To Handle Thoughtfully for Many California Politicans, Especially in an Election Season

September 24, 2006

Schwarzenegger's Partisan Record of Vetoes Emerges: So far 96.4% of Bills Vetoed Are Democratic and 3.4% Republican

September 23, 2006

Angelides and Schwarzenegger Differences On Environment: Endorsements, California Coastal Protection Records, and Yesterday'sVeto of SB 927

September 23, 2006

Senator Kuehl's Statement on Schwarzenegger's Veto of Universal Health Care: Innacuracies of Veto Message Cited

September 22, 2006

MEDICARE PART D "DONUT HOLE" DAY IN CALIFORNIA: OVERSIGHT OF PART D PLANS URGED. LEGISLATION ON THE GOVERNOR'S DESK FOR MORE STATE OVERSIGHT

September 22, 2006

California Insurance Commissioner Candidate Steve Poizner's Claim He Has Not Received Insurance Company Money is Simply False

September 22, 2006

Why Californians Who Know About Prop 90 are United in Opposing It

September 21, 2006

The California Observer is our site of the day

September 21, 2006

Lockyer’s Court Action on Global Warming is Bold and Needed

September 21, 2006

Letter from a Republican: Why I am Voting for Jerry Brown for Attorney General

September 21, 2006

SCHWARZENEGGER SIGNS AND VETOES HEALTH BILLS; MANY HEALTH STILL PENDING

September 21, 2006

CALPIRG Supports California Ballot Propositions 87, 89, and 86

September 20, 2006

New Study Shows Big Donors Wrote $1.7 Billion in “Major Check” Campaign Contributions in California in Last Five Years

September 20, 2006

Attorney General Lockyer Files Lawsuit Against “Big Six” Automakers for Global Warming Damages in California

September 20, 2006

EXPOSE OF A DISMAL RECORD OF SUPPORTING THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION’S POSITION ON GUN LEGISLATION CALLED UNETHICAL” BY BROWN’S AG OPPONENT

September 20, 2006

"What Would Proposition 86 Mean for California?" is our site of the day

September 20, 2006

Winning And Waiting – Good Environment Bills Still On The Governor’s Desk

September 20, 2006

Teaching Democracy: High School Students as Election Day Poll Workers

September 20, 2006

Healing the Black-Brown Divide

September 19, 2006

Who is Afraid of the Big, Bad Nurse? And Why? Prop 89

September 19, 2006

The Pew Hispanic Center, with its new publications, is our site of the day

September 19, 2006

Another Odd Down Ticket Race in California: Schwarzenegger vs. McClintock

September 19, 2006

Why Jerry Brown Has So Much Law Enforcement Support for Attorney General

September 19, 2006

Assemblymember Nava’s Concerns About Environmental Impacts of Proposed Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals Off California Coast

September 19, 2006

Meet the Press and Schwarzenegger

September 18, 2006

“How Is Transportation Funded in California?” is our site of the day

September 18, 2006

Chuck Poochigian: An Example of Republicans Running for “Down Ticket” Races in California

September 17, 2006

“Contracting Out”

September 16, 2006

Assemblymember Nava Calls for Action After Audit Reveals Inadequate State-Level Emergency Preparedness

September 15, 2006

Sobering Thoughts of a State Senator on California Post 9/11 and Katrina

September 15, 2006

Swift Boats Arrive in Sacramento

September 15, 2006

What Would Proposition 87 Mean for California is our site of the day

September 15, 2006

Judge Upholds Vote of Californians on Prop 36 Drug Courts Against Schwarzenegger Demanded Legislative Changes

September 14, 2006

Why We Will Get Universal Health Care in California and the Importance of What We Call it.

September 14, 2006

The Report of the California State Auditor “Emergency Preparedness: California's Administration of Federal Grants for Homeland Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness is Hampered by Inefficiencies and Ambiguity," is our site of the day

September 14, 2006

Schwarzenegger Economic Claims Contradicted by Data and New Reports

September 14, 2006

AS CONGRESS INVESTIGATES HOSPITAL OVERCHARGING, KEY BILL ON GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER'S DESK

September 14, 2006

Recycling Plastic Bags Helps Protect California’s Natural Resources

September 13, 2006

California’s Nonvoters Could Radically Change Outcomes Across the Board, Study Released Today Shows

September 13, 2006

It Takes a Package of Bills for California to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

September 13, 2006

The California Online Voter Guide for the November 2006 Election is our site of the day

September 12, 2006

“I SPY” ….Chapter 29: The Schwarzenegger Tapes

September 12, 2006

WOULD CALIFORNIA'S "GREEN" GOVERNOR VETO A COMMON-SENSE CLEAN-AIR BILL?

September 12, 2006

Sneak Preview of Testimony on Exploding Independent Expenditures Before California Assembly Committee.

September 12, 2006

Angelides Campaign Downloaded Schwarzenegger Comment, Says It Was Available to the Public. Governor’s Office Says it was “Unauthorized.”

September 12, 2006

Political Muscle: Blogging the Governor and Capitol Politics by Robert Salladay is our site of the day

September 12, 2006

NEW ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE CHAIRS ON HEALTH ISSUES ANNOUNCED FOR NEXT YEAR

September 12, 2006

Eminent Domain in Reverse: A Twist on Prop 90

September 11, 2006

Saving Lives in a Post 9/11 Era and Preserving Economic Stability of California’s Ports

September 11, 2006

The New “Sleeping Giant” in California Politics: The Growth of Asian Americans is our site of the day

September 11, 2006

A Time for Californians to Reflect on Our State’s Preparation for Disasters

September 11, 2006

Connecting the Dots Between Global Warming Bill and Health of Those Exposed to Carbon-Based Gases

September 11, 2006

$300 Million in Political Contributions This Year to Date in California! Reason to Support Prop 89

September 10, 2006

One Debate on a Saturday Night Between Angelides and Schwarzenegger—That’s All?

September 9, 2006

Democrats Call on Governor to Expand Cal Grants in Weekly Radio Address

September 8, 2006

A BUMPER CROP OF GREEN LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA

September 8, 2006

Schwarzenegger’s Remarks: The Part That is Offensive

September 8, 2006

Just as “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” according to Samuel Johnson, vetoing progressive legislation and calling them “job killers” is “a big lie!”

September 8, 2006

Will Schwarzenegger Side With Taxpayers and the Attorney General or Scofflaw Special Interests? The Anatomy of SB 1489

September 8, 2006

Proposition 1A of 2006: What would be the impact of “locking in” the proposition 42 Transfer? is our site of the day.

September 7, 2006

Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Bill to Stop Corporate Tax Cheats

September 7, 2006

Proposition 89: Take the “For Sale” sign off the State Capitol

September 7, 2006

Schwarzenegger Veto of a Simple Bill to Outlaw Discrimination in Schools and Curriculum on Basis of Sexual Orientation Makes No Sense Other Than Politics and Pandering

September 7, 2006

CALPIRG Sees Good News, Bad News on California Health Bills

September 7, 2006

A View From Inside the California Prisons by a Doctor Who Treats Prisoners

September 7, 2006

California’s Healthcare Crisis Calls for Real Leadership

September 7, 2006

The newly redesigned website of Phil Angelides’ campaign for Governor is our site of the day

September 6, 2006

“One Person, One Vote”--Why I’m for AB 2948

September 6, 2006

“Every vote Equal”

September 6, 2006

The Basis for AB 2948 Now On Governor Schwarzenegger’s Desk: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote

September 6, 2006

Schwarzenegger Health Care Veto Laden With Insurance Industry/HMO Scare Tactics

September 6, 2006

A CALL TO ACTION ON REMAINING HEALTH LEGISLATION AFTER SCHWARZENEGGER VETO ANNOUNCEMENT

September 6, 2006

The Press Conference of Senate Pro Tem President Don Perata the morning after the end of session is our site of the day

September 5, 2006

Angelides Gets Strong Endorsement for Governor by LA Mayor Villaraigosa

September 5, 2006

Schwarzenegger Announces Veto of Universal Health Care Bill, SB 840; Reaction by Senator Kuehl and Others Indicate Era of Good Feeling is Receding

September 5, 2006

Angelides Fires Up Crowd and Challenges Governor in Alameda County Labor Day Speech

September 5, 2006

Bill to Create New California Department of Public Health, Important for Katrina Like Disasters, Passed Legislature on Last Day of Session

September 5, 2006

“Green Acres” is What Los Angeles Calls 254,000 Tons of Sewage Sludge Dumped and Spread in Kern County

September 5, 2006

Student Asks Governor to Sign AB 523 and Save Public Television Station KOCE From Sale to Televangelist

September 5, 2006

LABOR DAY 2006: JOB AND WAGE GROWTH LAG DESPITE ECONOMIC RECOVERY is our site of the day

September 4, 2006

Labor Day in California: A Time for Reflection and Relaxation

September 3, 2006

History is Being Written About the California Legislative Session Just Concluded: You Have a Role to Play

September 2, 2006

Assemblymembers Bass and Torrico Highlight Legislative Accomplishments in Democrats’ Weekly Radio Address

September 2, 2006

2006 SESSION RECAP: HEALTH HIGHLIGHTS OF BILLS SENT TO GOVERNOR

September 1, 2006

California Assembly Adjourns After Midnight, Governor Gets a Blizzard of Bills

September 1, 2006

CA LEGISLATURE PASSES LANDMARK HEALTH BILLS;

September 1, 2006

Governor Schwarzenegger Will Have Until September 30 to Sign or Veto Hundreds of Bills—The Process

August 31, 2006

The Politics and Policy Behind the Legislature’s Rejection of Last Minute Tribal Gaming Pacts and Prison Bills

August 31, 2006

California State Assembly Passes Historic Global Warming Bill, AB 32 Now Heads to Governor

August 31, 2006

California Senate Passes Universal Single Payer Health Bill, Assembly Passes Minimum Wage Increase and Send Them to Governor; Flood Bill is Alive and Will Be Voted on; Prison Bills to Be Voted on Last in Assembly—Intense Labor Opposition

August 31, 2006

Schwarzenegger Blinked in Negotiations on AB 32, the Global Warming Bill

August 31, 2006

The Budget Brief, “New Study Overstates Effectiveness of Enterprise Zones,” is our site of the day

August 31, 2006

A Bit of An Overview of What Happened Yesterday in the California Legislature and Some Observations as We Approach the End of the End of Session

August 31, 2006

OH, WE OF LITTLE FAITH! CALIFORNIANS IN FUNK OVER FUTURE

August 31, 2006

END OF SESSION COUNTDOWN: Major Health Bills Pass California Legislature, More to Come

August 31, 2006

CALIFORNIA POISED TO BE THE FIRST STATE IN THE NATION TO ENACT BIOMONITORING PROGRAM

August 30, 2006

Global Warming Bill Passes California State Senate With Democrats in Support and Republicans in Opposition

August 30, 2006

Historic Agreement on Greenhouse Gases: California Legislative Leadership Negotiates Agreement With Governor on What Could Be Model for Country and Other States

August 30, 2006

End of the California Legislative Session—The Latest on AB 32 on Global Warming, Flood Control, Prisons, Tribal Gaming Pacts, and TV Cable/Phone Bills—Breaking News

August 30, 2006

California State Assembly Passes Electoral College Reform--AB 2948 is Now Going to the Governor

August 30, 2006

Prisons, Drug Discounts, Casinos, Flood Control, Gas Gouging, Prohibition of Anti Gay Curriculum, Hands Free Cellphone Driving, Initiative Reform, Student Aid for Undocumented Workers’ Children, Los Angeles School Reorganization All in Play Yesterday in

August 30, 2006

Prison Bills Being Rushed Through California Legislature the Product of Politics, Time, and Lack of Will

August 30, 2006

“New Census Data Show Few Gains for California,” the just released report of the California Budget Project is our site of the day.

August 30, 2006

Prescription Drug Bill Passes California Senate, Report on All Health Care Bills with Two Days Left in Session, New Census Shows California Uninsured Rate Rising

August 30, 2006

Rotting Flood Cars Should be Banned from California

August 29, 2006

Move in California Legislature to Approve Massive Tribal Casinos Without a Hearing!

August 29, 2006

“Katrina Cars,” Those Damaged by Floods, Dumped in California—Why AB 1854 Needs Approval This Year

August 29, 2006

The California Legislature Four Days From the End of Session: A Quick Review of Some of Yesterday’s Action

August 29, 2006

Prison Bill Package Introduced in Senate and Assembly: Schwarzenegger’s Proposals a “Non Starter”

August 29, 2006

WHAT DO PAPER TRAILS AND THE GESTATION PERIOD OF A BABY ELEPHANT HAVE IN COMMON?*

August 28, 2006

California State Assembly Surprises and Votes Down Agua Caliente Tribal Gaming Compact

August 28, 2006

California Assembly Passes Universal Health Care Insurance Bill on Party Line Vote

August 28, 2006

Where are California’s Progressive Democrats on Flood Control on the Anniversary of Katrina?

August 28, 2006

Real Health Care Reform Appears Headed to Governor—Plans Already Started on How to Get His Signature on Bill

August 28, 2006

Crucial Day in Sacramento for Major Legislation: Assembly Votes on Universal Health Care, Senate on Cable TV/Internet Bill

August 28, 2006

Crucial Day in Sacramento for Major Legislation: Assembly Votes on Universal Health Care, Senate on Cable TV/Internet Bill

August 28, 2006

FOUR DAYS LEFT TO PASS MAJOR REFORMS & PROTECTIONS FOR UNINSURED

August 27, 2006

Describing the Chaos at the End of the California Legislative Session

August 27, 2006

MORE REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA FROM DAN WALTERS

August 26, 2006

Most of the Money Against Clean Money Initiative Prop 89 Comes from Insurance Companies—Wonder Why?

August 26, 2006

Speaker Núñez Praises Bipartisan Prescription Drug Plan

August 26, 2006

Bill Will Mandate Public Discussion of Liquefied Natural Gas and Coordination With California Clean Energy Measures

August 25, 2006

“Right to Work Colonies” in California Tribal Casino Compacts to Be Voted on Monday in Assembly

August 25, 2006

Bowen Bill Requiring Disclosure of Backers When Signatures Are Sought for Ballot Initiatives is Close to Going to Governor

August 25, 2006

The documentary film “Nurses vs. Arnold” is our site of the day

August 24, 2006

Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich Explains Importance of Angelides Middle Class Tax Cuts and Failures of Bush and Schwarzenegger to Help All Except Those at the Top

August 24, 2006

Have it Your Way: Should Some Corporations Get to Choose How Much of Their Income is Taxed in California? Is our site of the day

August 24, 2006

California Prison “Sunshine” Bill Passed by Wide Bipartisan Margins Now Goes to the Governor

August 24, 2006

Turning Red California Blue

August 23, 2006

Speaker Nunez Draws the Line on AB 32 on Global Warming—Will Only Send Governor a Bill That is Enforceable and Supported by Environmental Community

August 23, 2006

The California Majority Report is our site of the day

August 23, 2006

California Close to Being First in Nation to Enact Measure to Reform Electoral College

August 23, 2006

Angelides Gets Tax and Economic Policy Right

August 22, 2006

Schwarzenegger Conference with Democratic Legislative Leadership Announces What Was In Yesterday’s News: Minimum Wage Increase

August 22, 2006

Major Prescription Drug Discount Bill in the Works for California

August 22, 2006

Spin on California Minimum Wage Compromise Will Be Interesting This Morning

August 22, 2006

Outrageous Facts on the minimum wage by the AFL-CIO is our site of the day

August 22, 2006

Last Weekend Schwarzenegger Tried to Have It Both Ways With Judicial Appointments

August 21, 2006

Compromise to Raise California Minimum Wage Struck While Rumors Fly Around Capitol About Agreement on Workers’ Compensation Medical Treatment

August 21, 2006

California Assembly Passes Bill Against Discriminaton in Schools and Instructional Materials on the Basis of Sexual Orientation Strongly Opposed by Republicans

August 21, 2006

A-Historical Reform: Redistricting in Perspective

August 21, 2006

California Drug Courts: A Methodology for Determining Costs and Benefits is our site of the day

August 21, 2006

Is Redistricting Reform Really Dead This Year?

August 21, 2006

Resources and Environmental Protection in the California Budget: Part of a Series of Essays By Sheila Kuehl

August 20, 2006

Schwarzenegger Placates Right Wing of Republican Party by Playing the “Illegal Immigrant Card”

August 19, 2006

Schwarzenegger Moves Right to Placate Republicans at State Convention

August 19, 2006

Assemblymember De La Torre Vows Continued Support of Redistricting Reform in Weekly Radio Address

August 18, 2006

Schwarzenegger Use of “Enterprise Tax Zones” is Classic Republican Trickle Down and a Sharp Contrast With Angelides Plan

August 18, 2006

California Assembly Has Passed a Prison Reform Bill—Allowing Reporters Access to Prisoners

August 18, 2006

California Universal Health Care, Prescription Discounts, Hospital Overcharging, and Other Health Bills Pass Committees and Head for Floor Votes

August 18, 2006

“Cargo on the Move Through California: Evaluating Container Fee Impacts on Port Choice” is our site of the day

August 17, 2006

CALPIRG Issues New Study on Corporate Tax Avoidance: Urges Schwarzenegger to Sign Bill to Increase Transparency in Corporate Taxes

August 17, 2006

Economic Growth and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in California is our site of the day

August 17, 2006

Channel 89 Has Footage From Sacramento Fundraisers

August 16, 2006

Phil Angelides Delivers Major Policy Speech on Tax Relief for Californians and “Renewing the Promise of California:” The Complete Speech

August 16, 2006

Details of Angelides Plan for Tax and Other Relief for Millions of Californians

August 16, 2006

Growth in the Foreign-Born Workforce and Employment of the Native Born is our site of the day

August 16, 2006

Agua Caliente Puts Governor and Legislature in Hot Water Over Casino Compact While Big Lagoon Tribe is Left Out in the Cold

August 16, 2006

New Poll Delves Deeper Into Busby Loss, Finds Major Rifts Among Republican Voters

August 16, 2006

THE HOME STRETCH: California Health Consumer Legislation in Appropriations, on Floor

August 15, 2006

Redistricting Reform Should Be Separate From Any Term Limit Changes

August 15, 2006

Will Durst on “The Republican Sissy Box”

August 15, 2006

89Now.org is our site of the day

August 14, 2006

California Can Make Real Progress on Renewable Diesel Fuels With SB 1675

August 14, 2006

"Greening the Bottom Line" from Environment California is our site of the day

August 14, 2006

The Importance of the Roadless Rule to Californians and the Environment: We areTruly at the Fork in the Road

August 14, 2006

Major California Health Insurance Bill on the Cusp of Legislative Approval

August 13, 2006

Cancelled Schwarzenegger Fundraiser: Why We Need Clean Money Prop 89 and a New Governor

August 12, 2006

Speaker Urges Passage of Historic Legislation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Weekly Radio Address

August 12, 2006

Dean Stumps California for Angelides as Polls Show Bush is Hurting Republicans in State Races

August 11, 2006

Schwarzenegger to Star in New Movie! “Nurses Vs. Arnold: Terminating Political Corruption” Premieres August 24

August 11, 2006

Sudden Conference Committee on Redistricting—Everyone is Guessing What is Going to Happen

August 11, 2006

Hummer King on a "tightrope"

August 11, 2006

Governor Phil is our site of the day

August 11, 2006

Still Waiting for Arnold to endorse a Democrat?

August 10, 2006

Angelides’ Emerging Unified Theory of the Campaign and Global Warming

August 10, 2006

Who’s In Prison? The Changing Demographics of Incarceration is our site of the day

August 10, 2006

Massive Rally on State Capitol Steps as California Legislature to Vote on Major Universal Health Insurance Bill This Month

August 10, 2006

Failed Bush SBA Administrator Barreto, Described by Washington Post as “The Next Michael Brown,” Joins Schwarzenegger Team

August 9, 2006

Once Again California Assembly Resolution for Bipartisan Immigration Approach Passes Committee Vote Without a Single Republican Vote

August 9, 2006

The California Early Care and Education Workforce Study is our site of the day

August 9, 2006

Today’s California News: Exhibit 1 in the Case for Clean Money and Prop 89

August 8, 2006

Speaker of the California Assembly Has a Lot on His Mind as “End of Session” Begins

August 8, 2006

Voices of Reform Coalition Welcomes Support by Both Schwarzenegger and Angelides for Redistricting Reform, Urges Action in Time for November ’06 Ballot

August 8, 2006

Restoration of Democracy in California and Populism of Hiram Johnson to Be Central Themes of Angelides Campaign

August 7, 2006

SUMMER RECAP: CAMPAIGN SEASON BEGINS WITH HEALTH CARE FOCUS

August 7, 2006

Barry Gordon’s “From Left Field” is our site of the day

August 7, 2006

Hopefully at Last We Will Begin to Clean up the Mess in California’s Prisons

August 7, 2006

State Senate President Pro tem Don Perata’s Views on Prison Reform

August 7, 2006

Angelides Speaks Out for California Redistricting Reform, Supports Bipartisan Plan

August 7, 2006

More News and Opinion Sources Added to the California Progress Report

August 6, 2006

Arnold’s Waffle Shop

August 6, 2006

California Democratic Party is “Neutral” on Prop 89, Clean Money Initiative, Despite Strong Democratic Club Support for the Measure

August 6, 2006

Oakland Voters To Decide Whether to Join Other California Cities in Using Instant Runoff Voting

August 5, 2006

Speaker Vows Bipartisan Solutions to Legislation that Affects Californians

August 5, 2006

Will Durst To Republicans: The Minimum Wage is Supposed to Increase Wages

August 4, 2006

Battle for Soul of California Democratic Party Begins Tonight on Prop 89—Clean Money

August 4, 2006

Arnold's Flip-Flops is our site of the day

August 4, 2006

Schwarzenegger is Left With Defending Dirty Money and Issuing Dirtball Attacks on Angelides Through His Operatives

August 4, 2006

Prop 90 is Classic Bait and Switch: Why It Must Be Defeated to Protect California's Environment, Public Safety, and Consumers

August 4, 2006

Californians Want Action on Global Warming—Our Challenge as Legislators This Month is Passage of AB 32

August 4, 2006

Perata on Polling and Infrastructure Bond Ballot Propositions

August 3, 2006

News Flash: Angelides Supports Clean Money Ballot Proposition 89

August 3, 2006

The State Controller Office Report on the Health Care Delivery System in the California Prisons is our site of the day

August 3, 2006

MOUNTJOY TO GET A THIRD OF THE VOTE AGAINST FEINSTEIN?

August 3, 2006

Schwarzenegger’s Wild Spending Spree

August 3, 2006

California Leading the Human Rights Charge – Again

August 2, 2006

State Controller Audit Confirms Massive Wasteful Spending and Abuse in California Prison Medical System

August 2, 2006

Investigative Poll Explains Busby Loss in San Diego: May Help in November and in Other California Congressional Races

August 2, 2006

The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice is our site of the day

August 2, 2006

“JESSICA’S LAW” PROTECTS CHILDREN, REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS.

August 2, 2006

After the Headlines: California Editorials Say “Summit” was “Hot Air from Arnold and Blair”

August 1, 2006

A Day After Global Warming “Summit”—What Was That All About?

August 1, 2006

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN DOWNTICKET BLUES

August 1, 2006

Federal Judge in Sacramento Adds Schwarzenegger Finance Director as Defendant and Orders Governor to Ask Special Legislative Session to Fund Mental Health Workers in Prisons

August 1, 2006

The Summary Report from the California Climate Change Center is our site of the day

July 31, 2006

A Load of “Hooey” is Coming Out Against Prop 89: I Say “Get the Money Changers Out of the Temple”

July 31, 2006

Index the Minimum Wage: California is At a Level 12% Lower Than the Last Time This Floor Was Set In 2002 and One-Third Lower Than It Was in 1968.

July 31, 2006

California’s Prison Crisis 2006: Is the System Beyond Help?

July 31, 2006

Single Payer: Answers and Facts About Health Care for All is our site of the day

July 31, 2006

Why 61% of Californians Support Prop 87 on Alternative Energy

July 31, 2006

“Eminent Absurdity” and the Out of State Origins of Prop 90 on California Ballot

July 30, 2006

How do Californians Get Their News, Information, and Opinions About State Government?

July 29, 2006

Assemblymember Levine Rips Schwarzenegger on Energy in Democratic Weekly Radio Address

July 29, 2006

Remember the Infrastructure Bond Measures? They May Not Pass In November Unless Action is Taken

July 28, 2006

The State of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of Political Activity in Northern and Central California is our site of the day

July 28, 2006

Gas Prices a Pain? What California Can Do About It

July 28, 2006

The One Real Solution to Overcrowding in California’s Prisons

July 28, 2006

Powering California Forward with Energy Efficiency: AB 2021

July 27, 2006

Message to Schwarzenegger From PPIC Poll: Don’t Mess With AB 32 on Global Warming

July 27, 2006

Triple Witching Time for California in Political Polls

July 27, 2006

CAN YOU FOOL MOST OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME?

July 27, 2006

Market Stability and Conservation Are Keys to California Energy Solution

July 26, 2006

California Prison Receiver To Meet With Schwarzenegger, Perata, and Nunez

July 26, 2006

California On The Brink Of Blackouts

July 26, 2006

DANCE OF THE ELEPHANTS IN CALIFORNIA

July 26, 2006

The Official Voter Information Guide-Public Display is our site of the day

July 26, 2006

Rhetoric vs. Reality: How Conservatives are Failing Latinos

July 26, 2006

California’s Common Cause and League of Women Voters announce support for Proposition 89

July 25, 2006

ANGELIDES UNVEILS ENERGY PLAN: Says Schwarzenegger Has Broken Promises

July 25, 2006

Sacramento Should Reject Kings Arena Deal and Set an Example for California on Priorities and Gifts to Billionaires

July 25, 2006

Today's Outlook from the California ISO is our site of the day

July 25, 2006

New poll results may – or may not – presage Angelides defeat

July 25, 2006

Proposals by Schwarzenegger’s At “Health Care Summit” Influenced by Campaign Contributions Not Interest of Consumers

July 25, 2006

Prisons and Transportation in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 24, 2006

The Hetch Hetch Restoration Study is our site of the day

July 24, 2006

New Zogby Poll Has Angelides Slightly Ahead of Schwarzenegger, But Within Margin of Error

July 24, 2006

Debate on Health Care for All Gets Real in the United States and California

July 24, 2006

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Health Summit” Is Not a Public Relations Gimmick

July 24, 2006

Community Media Advocates Influence California Cable, Phone and Broadband Bill

July 23, 2006

New Proof Today That Schwarzenegger Views Prison Mess as Just a Political Problem

July 22, 2006

Importance of the Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Passage Discussed in California Democrats Weekly Radio Address

July 22, 2006

Test Your Schwarzenegger Health Care IQ

July 22, 2006

Thoughts From the Hospital About Universal Health Care: A Personal Story

July 21, 2006

California Can Show the Nation How to Do Health Care Right: SB 840 and Universal Coverage

July 21, 2006

California Politics Today and their interview of Dr. Shelley Luce on Prop 87 is our site of the day

July 21, 2006

Garamendi Sued by Insurance Industry For Implementing Prop 103 On Automobile Rates

July 21, 2006

Am I my Senator’s Keeper?

July 21, 2006

Will Durst: “The Fratlomat"

July 20, 2006

Does Ben Stein Know The Real Tom McClintock?

July 20, 2006

Office of Inspector General Reports California Prisons Waste Millions—It’s “Like Auditing Spaghetti”

July 20, 2006

Paper Ballots Needed to Avoid Election Fraud

July 20, 2006

DirtyMoneyWatch.org is our site of the day

July 19, 2006

Breaking News: Schwarzenegger Comes Out Against Clean Money Proposition 89—But May Not Even Know It

July 19, 2006

Public Campaign is our site of the day

July 19, 2006

A Powerful Argument in Today's LA Times for Clean Money and Prop 89

July 19, 2006

Schwarzenegger’s Record of Vetoes and Blocking Healthcare Reform and His Election-Year “Summit”

July 18, 2006

DOWD JOINS ARNOLD AT THE TROUGH

July 18, 2006

From Poverty, Opportunity, a new report of the Brookings Institution is our site of the day

July 18, 2006

HEALTH CARE IS HOT IN JULY: SUMMITS AND CONVENINGS

July 18, 2006

Social Services in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 18, 2006

Cruz Bustamante’s Thoughtful Speech On Issues of Importance to Latinos

July 17, 2006

ANGELIDES UNVEILS PLAN TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE

July 17, 2006

What If Maldonado Was Right? Why Angelides Will Get The Latino Vote

July 17, 2006

Paying the Price: The High Cost of Prescription Drugs for

July 17, 2006

Health in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 17, 2006

California Public Schools Better Than Private Schools According to Suppressed Study

July 16, 2006

Schwarzenegger Seen as Just Another Pandering Politician in Two Surprising Columns Today

July 16, 2006

INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING--COMING TO OAKLAND?

July 15, 2006

Senator Bowen Comments on State Supreme Court's Pro-Privacy Ruling

July 15, 2006

Higher Education in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 15, 2006

WILL DURST ON POLITICS: “HE’S BACK!”

July 14, 2006

California Law Enforcement Getting Testy With Schwarzenegger Over His Latest Comments—Apology Demanded

July 14, 2006

The 2006 National Survey of Latinos: The Immigration Debate, by the Pew Hispanic Center, is our site of the day

July 14, 2006

New Poll Shows Angelides Ahead of Schwarzenegger 46%-44%--Why Arnold’s Camp Has Much to Fear

July 14, 2006

K-12 Education in the California State Budget: Part of a Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 14, 2006

Judge Puts Hold on Schwarzenegger’s Law Gutting Prop. 36 the Day After He Signs It

July 13, 2006

The California Democratic Party PARTY LINE is our site of the day

July 13, 2006

Why This Gold Country Democrat Believes Clean Money Politics Is Needed For Democracy in California

July 13, 2006

Schwarzenegger Not Coming Clean on His Environmental Record and Ties to Bush Policies: “The Roadless Rule”

July 12, 2006

Susan Kennedy May Be Deposed as California Prison Mess May Be Turning into a Scandal for Schwarzenegger Administration

July 12, 2006

Instant Runoff Voting – A Step Towards A Healthier Democracy in California

July 12, 2006

Schwarzenegger Now 0 for 3 With Prison Experts

July 12, 2006

The new Consumer Federation of California webpage is our site of the day

July 12, 2006

New Survey Shows Uninsured Californians Pay Higher Prices for Prescription Drugs

July 11, 2006

The Will Durst page is our site of the day

July 11, 2006

Angelides’ Clear Stand on Same Sex Marriage Shows Courage

July 11, 2006

Local Races in California are NINO—Nonpartisan in Name Only

July 11, 2006

AB2987-Not Just About Video but California’s Digital Infrastructure

July 10, 2006

The Webcast of arguments on same-sex marriage before the California Court of Appeals is our site of the day

July 10, 2006

Schwarzenegger Watered Down the Lemon-Aid in Car Buyers Bill of Rights

July 9, 2006

Is Schwarzenegger a “Karma Chameleon Politician?”

July 8, 2006

The California State Budget in Context: A Series of Essays by Sheila Kuehl

July 8, 2006

Bowen to Chair New Senate Select Committee on California Election Integrity

July 7, 2006

DAN WALTERS SHIFTS BLAME FOR CALIFORNIA’S ENERGY DEBACLE

July 7, 2006

SCHWARZENEGGER BACKS DOWN ON UNIVERSAL COVERAGE

July 7, 2006

The Economic Promise of Investing in High-Quality Preschool is our site of the day

July 7, 2006

Schwarzenegger and Prison Reform—“Where’s the Beef?”

July 6, 2006

The receiver’s first bi-monthly report in the case of Plata v. Schwarzenegger is our site of the day

July 6, 2006

MAKING BOOK ON THE GOVERNOR’S RACE?

July 6, 2006

California Prison Medical Care a Major Scandal and Disgrace According to Receiver Appointed by Federal Judge

July 6, 2006

Small Phone Consumers in California Will Pay for Video Dreams of Telephone Companies

July 5, 2006

Angelides Accepts Eight Debate Invitations—Will the “New Schwarzenegger” Agree, or Will There Be Excuses?

July 5, 2006

Take Back Red California is our site of the day

July 5, 2006

Reforming the California Prison System Requires More Than Posturing and Finger Pointing

July 5, 2006

California Prisons Must be Therapeutic To Protect the Public

July 4, 2006

What makes me an American

July 4, 2006

Health Care After Governor Signs 2006-2007 California State Budget

July 3, 2006

Some Republican Legislators Have Never Voted for a California Budget

July 3, 2006

Reforming For-Profit Nursing Homes is our site of the day

July 3, 2006

California Members of Congress Who Voted for Oil and Gas Drilling Off Our Coast

July 2, 2006

WHY SIERRA CLUB SUPPORTS PHIL ANGELIDES FOR GOVERNOR

July 1, 2006

State Budget ‘Compassionate and Responsible’ Says Speaker

July 1, 2006

The Pork Barrel Protection Act: The Other Budget

June 30, 2006

Schwarzenegger Agrees to Pay $200,000 Fine for Failure to Report $25,600,000 in Campaign Contributions

June 30, 2006

Schwarzenegger admits he has "no plan to end the deficit"

June 30, 2006

The California Budget Project Summary of this year’s state budget is our site of the day

June 30, 2006

Don’t Expect Phil or Arnold to Rush to Endorse the Clean-money Initiative

June 30, 2006

Speaker’s Cable, Phone, and Broadband TV Bill Passes Out of Committee Unanimously

June 30, 2006

HOSPITAL OVERCHARGING LEGISLATION PASSES CALIFORNIA SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE

June 29, 2006

State Senate Committee Hearing on Cable, Phone, and Broadband Television Bill is Today’s Main Event in Sacramento

June 29, 2006

California Nurses Association Campaign Reform Initiative Not Affected By Recent US Supreme Court Decision

June 29, 2006

Blue Youth in the California Electorate

June 29, 2006

Chevron-Funded Schwarzenegger Sells Out The Environment

June 29, 2006

Understanding California Corrections, hot off the press, is our site of the day

June 28, 2006

The PPIC Special Survey of the Central Valley is our site of the day

June 28, 2006

Observations on Passage of the California State Budget

June 28, 2006

ARNOLD DODGES QUESTIONS, LABELS PRESS CORPS ‘PAPARAZZI’

June 28, 2006

California Budget Passes: Important Health Items Not Included

June 27, 2006

“California Compassionate Choices Act,” Modeled on Oregon Law, Dies in Senate Committee

June 27, 2006

The new Municipal Wireless Snapshot is our site of the day

June 27, 2006

CALIFORNIA BUDGET WRITERS NIX CHILDREN’S COVERAGE EXPANSION; Other Key Health Bills up This Week

June 26, 2006

It's Official - California to Vote on Clean Elections

June 26, 2006

Children Are Apparently the Losers in the California State Budget Fight

June 26, 2006

After Three Years, Schwarzenegger Finally Ready To Act on Prison Reform (Hopefully): Calls Special Session of Legislature

June 26, 2006

“Fab Four” Leaders of California Legislature Announce Budget Agreement

June 26, 2006

Keeping it Clean: Public Financing in American Elections from the Center for Governmental Studies is our site of the day

June 26, 2006

Proposition 36 May Be Gutted As Part of California State Budget Deal

June 25, 2006

SCHWARZENEGGER’S FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

June 24, 2006

Assembly Speaker Says It's Our Job In Sacramento To Push For Reforms That Help Our Children Succeed

June 24, 2006

THE PLAY’S THE THING--Cavala's Take on Schwarzenegger's "Triangulation"

June 23, 2006

Californians for Clean Energy is our site of the day

June 23, 2006

DOING GOOD BY DOING WELL: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE ‘HASTERT’ WEAKNESS

June 23, 2006

THE PARTY OF NO IDEAS VS THE PARTY OF BAD IDEAS

June 23, 2006

MORE ELECTION-YEAR PANDERING: Arnold Rejects/Embraces Radical Right-Wing Values

June 22, 2006

Nature magazine and their newly released study on the San Andreas fault is our site of the day

June 22, 2006

“THEY JUST KEEP ON COMING….”--THE BILBRAY LESSON

June 22, 2006

BILL TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS AGAINST HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLANS FAILS

June 21, 2006

California Chamber of Chicken Little Reports “Sky is Falling” in State

June 21, 2006

California’s Global Warming Pollution Up 85% Since 1960

June 21, 2006

ARNOLD TEAMS UP WITH CORRUPT BUSH REPUBLICANS, REFUSES TO RETURN DIRTY MONEY

June 21, 2006

Major Drug Safety Bill Fails in Assembly Committee

June 21, 2006

The California Chamber of Commerce 2006 “Job Killer” Bill List is our site of the day

June 20, 2006

The California Budget Challenge online at Next Ten is our site of the day

June 20, 2006

Openness in the Schwarzenegger Administration

June 20, 2006

Even With Indexing, the Minimum Wage is Not Enough for Subsistence

June 19, 2006

A Budget Worth the Wait

June 19, 2006

UCLA Study Has Shocking Information on Discrimination in Admissions to University of California

June 19, 2006

Bill to Help “Put the Freeze” on ID Thieves Faces Uphill Battle Today in California Assembly Committee

June 19, 2006

The Nurses’ Initiative Clean Money Elections Page is our site of the day

June 17, 2006

Chair of Assembly Budget Committee Says Republicans Have "Agenda of Roadblock" on Califonia State Budget

June 17, 2006

BUDGET BLUES: CHILDREN'S COVERAGE IN SPOTLIGHT

June 16, 2006

And the Winner is…… The Environment

June 16, 2006

The David Glass Show on KSRO 1350 out of Santa Rosa is our site of the day

June 15, 2006

Schwarzenegger (2003): “We have to make sure that every child in California is insured.” How About 2006?

June 15, 2006

Absence of Live TV Coverage Might Cause California Budget To Be Passed On Time

June 15, 2006

Top 10 Reasons Why Republicans Refuse to Vote on State Budget by June 15th

June 14, 2006

Taxes and the California Budget: The “Roach Motel” Effect

June 14, 2006

The California Blog Roundup at Calitics is our site of the day

June 14, 2006

Schwarzenegger and Bush Budget Deficits: Key Issue in California General Election

June 13, 2006

Sacramento Circus: “The Big Republican Tent” and Surfers

June 13, 2006

Don’t Expect a State Budget on Thursday

June 13, 2006

California State Budget Update: Two Days Before the Vote

June 12, 2006

Republican Media Circus in Sacramento, Tents Included, Paid for With Taxpayer Dollars

June 12, 2006

Phil Angelides: A Democrat in the Mold of Harry Truman in 1948

June 12, 2006

Independent Spending Tarnishes Golden State Politics

June 12, 2006

PoliticsTV is our site of the day

June 11, 2006

Yearly Kos Convention: The Woodstock of 2006

June 11, 2006

Watch the Best of the Yearly Kos Convention on PoliticsTV.com

June 11, 2006

June 11, 2006

A ‘Free’ Speech on "Redistricting Reform"

June 10, 2006

Rigged Elections in California: The District 50 Elections

June 10, 2006

Assemblymember Torrico Calls for Cracking Down on Gas Price Gouging

June 9, 2006

Does Phil’s Position on Taxes Make Arnold a Lock? No.

June 9, 2006

The Yearlykos 2006 convention is our site of the day

June 9, 2006

Did Schwarzeneger Say He Might Endorse Democrats In State Races and Then Endorse Entire GOP Ticket in One Day?

June 8, 2006

Reporting Live on California Politics From the Yearly Kos Convention in Las Vegas

June 8, 2006

A POST-PRIMARY LOOK AT THE PROSPECTS FOR HEALTH REFORM

June 8, 2006

WHY THE CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAM WORKS

June 7, 2006

Angelides and Schwarzenegger Begin the General Election Battle Today With Tours of State

June 7, 2006

Yesterday’s Election, “Moderate Democrats” in the California Legislature, and Where We Go From Here

June 7, 2006

Both State Ballot Propositions Fail. Strickland Wins Republican Nod for Controller. Democrat Jack O’Connell Wins State Superintendent Race Outright in June.

June 7, 2006

The Live Election Returns Page from the Secretary of State is our site of the day

June 7, 2006

Angelides Wins Democratic Nomination for Governor, Other Statewide Nominations Decided Except Republican Nomination for State Controller

June 6, 2006

The California Secretary of State’s Office is our site of the day

June 6, 2006

Vote: There’s A Lot at Stake Today for California’s Future

June 6, 2006

Oakland-Alameda County Turnout Looks Higher Than Predicted

June 6, 2006

Give Me Fast Food, But Take the Time to Count the Votes

June 6, 2006

Education, Transportation, Housing, Clean Energy, and Health Legislation Passed by State Senate Keep Promise Made in December

June 5, 2006

Absentee Voting and Election Day Voting information from the California Voter Foundation is our site of the day

June 5, 2006

Today’s Field Poll Shows Schwarzenegger Should Not Be Gloating About November

June 5, 2006

TOO DUMB TO CHOOSE: VOTERS WITHOUT A PARTY SPLIT EVENLY ON EVALUATION OF THE GOVERNOR

June 5, 2006

Remembering Enron’s Impact on California

June 4, 2006

Using the Lessons of Historical Statistics to Predict Elections Shows That Campaigns are not Baseball Games

June 4, 2006

The California Democratic Primary: Still an Undecided Voter? Information for You to Decide.

June 4, 2006

The California Democratic Primary: Still an Undecided Voter? Information for You to Decide, Part 2.

June 3, 2006

SPEIER VAULTS INTO LEAD OVER GARAMENDI. SURPRISED?

June 3, 2006

Democrats to Governor: Sign Minimum Wage Indexing Legislation

June 3, 2006

Prescription Drug Safety Bill Stalls in California State Senate

June 2, 2006

The California Report is our site of the day

June 2, 2006

I BET ON BARBARO TOO…

June 2, 2006

A Case for Redistricting Reform

June 2, 2006

THE BRIGHTSIDE OF GLOBAL WARMING

June 2, 2006

Passage of Minimum Wage Bills Cap Busy Week in Sacramento

June 1, 2006

Schwarzenegger’s Decision to Deploy California National Guard to the Border

June 1, 2006

Real Lobbying Reform in California

June 1, 2006

Cavala Against "Redistricting Reform"

June 1, 2006

Kick the Oil Habit and the Energy Edition of State Progress are our sites of the day

June 1, 2006

State Senate Vote on Redistricting Reform Expected Today

June 1, 2006

INTENSE DEBATE IN CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY ON HEALTH MEASURES AT LEGISLATIVE DEADLINE

June 1, 2006

Assembly Passes Sudan Disinvestment Bill After “Camp Darfur” Tents Set up on Capitol Lawn

May 31, 2006

MORE REFORM FOR THE WEARY: This Time the Electoral College

May 31, 2006

National Popular Vote is our site of the day

May 31, 2006

California Assembly Passes Electoral College Reform

May 31, 2006

Perata’s View of the State Budget

May 30, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth is our site of the day

May 30, 2006

Facts Don't Lie: The Best Democratic Nominee for Governor

May 30, 2006

Make drug companies tell us the whole truth! Take Action Now

May 30, 2006

Lost in the Inland Empire: Ground Zero... Bacaland!

May 30, 2006

Court Rules Bloggers are Journalists Under California Constitution and Statute

May 29, 2006

Should Misleading Ads on Global Warming be Pulled from the Public Airways?

May 28, 2006

LA Times Final Poll on Demo Primary: Gov. and Secretary of State Close, Garamendi, Dunn, Brown, Bustamante, 81 and 82 Ahead

May 27, 2006

One-stop Guide for the Facts about Candidates and the Money Behind Them

May 27, 2006

Senator Dunn Highlights Solutions to Soaring Gasoline Prices In Radio Address

May 26, 2006

The California Tax Reform Association “Tax Policy for the 21st Century” is our site of the day

May 26, 2006

Speech of President Fox to California Legislature: A Wake Up Call for Dialogue

May 26, 2006

The Framing of Immigration

May 25, 2006

Text of President Fox's Address to California State Legislature

May 25, 2006

People 1, Politicians 0

May 25, 2006

Speak Out California’s 2006 Primary Election Voter Guide is our site of the day

May 25, 2006

Democratic Race for Governor is Up For Grabs—and the November Election Too

May 25, 2006

Arnold Plays Zelig on National Guard Deployment

May 24, 2006

Major Poll Out Tomorrow. Lots Going on In Sacramento.

May 24, 2006

Making Universal Health Insurance a Reality for California’s Children

May 24, 2006

Calitics Poll Headquarters is our site of the day

May 24, 2006

Time for Compassionate Choice in California

May 23, 2006

Legislation to Bring Sunshine to Compensation Meetings at UC

May 23, 2006

June Primary Will Decide Environmental Balance in Legislature

May 23, 2006

Republican Assemblymembers Unanimously Vote Against Resolution Urging Passage of “Comprehensive, Bipartisan” Immigration Bill

May 23, 2006

Fund Medicare Part D Co-pays for California’s Poorest Seniors and Disabled

May 22, 2006

Politics and Technology is our site of the day

May 22, 2006

Democratic Primary Fight Not Likely to Affect Race Against Schwarzenegger

May 22, 2006

The Angelides and Westly TV ads are our sites of the day

May 21, 2006

What Should California Do About Deployment of Our National Guard on the Border?

May 20, 2006

California Exit Exam Fails Kids and the State

May 20, 2006

Assemblymembers Nation and De La Torre Oppose Bush’s Border Plan in Weekly Radio Address

May 19, 2006

The Sacramento Press Club is our site of the day

May 19, 2006

Schwarzenegger Responds to Moral Issue of Minimum Wage With Election Year Gimmick

May 18, 2006

Time Warp in Arnold’s Rhetoric

May 18, 2006

The Coalition for Clean Air is our site of the day

May 18, 2006

Time to Integrate the State Government Bus

May 18, 2006

Clean Money Bill Hindered, but Not Killed in Senate Committee

May 18, 2006

HIGH DEDUCTIBLE PLAN PROTECTIONS HEADS TO ASSEMBLY FLOOR

May 17, 2006

Pictures and More Information on AB 583—Clean Money

May 17, 2006

Hancock's AB 583 on Clean Money Probably Dead, But Has Paved the Way for Nurse's Initiative Measure

May 17, 2006

Some Assembly Republicans Want Transportation Money Protected From Raids, But Nothing in the Kitty

May 17, 2006

California Nurses Submitting 600,000 Petitions for November Vote on Clean Money Elections

May 17, 2006

California Legislation to Protect Phone Record Privacy Needed Now More Than Ever

May 17, 2006

California Common Cause is our site of the day

May 16, 2006

Don’t Just Throw Money at Levees, Plan for Flood Control

May 16, 2006

Public Advocates, Inc. is our site of the day

May 16, 2006

Republican Legislators to Californians In Need of Medicare Drugs: “Let’s First See How Many of You Die Before We Help”

May 15, 2006

Can Democrats Win the Governor's Race in November?

May 15, 2006

Clean Money Bill (AB 583) Highlights Busy Week in Legislature

May 15, 2006

Lost in the Inland Empire: Signs of the Times

May 15, 2006

The Commonweal Institute is our site of the day

May 15, 2006

“A budget is all about values ...and what we really care about.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger, May 12) Why then are we balancing it by taking cost of living increases from the blind, aged, and disabled?

May 13, 2006

An Open Letter to Superintendent O’Connell on the California High School Exit Exam

May 13, 2006

Speaker Núñez and President Pro Tempore Perata Discuss California’s Future

May 12, 2006

Senate Leader Perata’s Thoughtful Statement on Revised Budget Proposed by Governor

May 12, 2006

Governor’s Revised Budget Pays Back Schools But Rips Off Transit Riders

May 12, 2006

Assembly Democrats Respond to Proposed State Budget Revisions

May 12, 2006

Is Democratic Dominance Threatened in California?

May 12, 2006

Poverty in California: Moving Beyond the Federal Measure is our site of the day

May 12, 2006

Poll Shows Redistricting Reform Has California Voter Support

May 12, 2006

Elderly and Disabled Spared From Proposed Cuts in Budget Revise

May 11, 2006

Improving the Transparency and Accountability of the State Budget is our site of the day

May 11, 2006

Westly and Angelides Trade Personal Attacks, But Agree on Most Issues in Debate

May 11, 2006

Assembly Passes First Bill In Nation to Protect College Newspapers From Censorship

May 10, 2006

Insurance Commissioner Candidates Should Stand Behind Garamendi Regulations To Protect Integrity of Office

May 10, 2006

DIEBOLD REVEALS NEW “SECURITY VULNERABILITY” WITH VOTING MACHINES CERTIFIED FOR USE IN CALIFORNIA

May 10, 2006

The application for an absentee ballot (Secretary of State’s office) is our site of the day

May 10, 2006

“Open Wound” In Republican Party Over Bond Package

May 10, 2006

New Polls Show Angelides and Westly Tied. Debate Tonight-- Live On Air & Online

May 9, 2006

Garamendi Asks FBI, US Attorney, and State Attorney General to Investigate Insurance Industry Blackmail Charges

May 9, 2006

The Strategic Growth Plan is our site of the day

May 9, 2006

Democrats Did Right Thing in Passing Bonds

May 9, 2006

Yes on Prop 82 For Equal Access to Preschool

May 8, 2006

Schwarzenegger and Legislative Leadership Barnstorm Around California on Bond Package

May 8, 2006

“Real Clear Politics, Arnold” is our site of the day

May 8, 2006

Levee Repairs Are Only Half of the Solution

May 7, 2006

California News This Sunday Morning, My Thoughts and Yours

May 6, 2006

What is it Going to Take to Pass Clean Money in California?

May 6, 2006

Speaker Blasts Oil Companies for High Gas Prices, Says "We Won't Be 'Enroned' Again"

May 5, 2006

While California Slept, Legislature Passes $37.3 Billion Bonds Package

May 5, 2006

Senate bond snapshot

May 5, 2006

The Smart Voter Guide from the League of Women Voters of California is our site of the day

May 5, 2006

perata Nunez

May 4, 2006

No Bonds Yet, Pizza Business Doing Great in Sacramento

May 4, 2006

Ripley’s Bond Package

May 4, 2006

Optimistic Words About a Bond Deal

May 4, 2006

Marching California to the Polls and a New Progressive Era

May 4, 2006

The California Online Voter Guide is Our Site of the Day

May 4, 2006

“Public Works” Bonds Happening Today and Other Breaking Stories

May 4, 2006

Dangers of Tsunamis to California

May 4, 2006

Deceptive Prescription Drug Marketing is Widespread and Dangerous

May 3, 2006

State Disaster Response Needs Overhaul, Clear Chain of Command

May 3, 2006

New Poll Points Way to Democratic Victory in California

May 3, 2006

Something is Up On Infrastructure Bonds

May 3, 2006

Televised Democratic Gubernatorial Debate Tonight (May 3)

May 3, 2006

PowerPAC.org is our site of the day

May 2, 2006

Where’s Arnold?

May 2, 2006

The Webcast of the 2006 California Democratic Convention is our site of the day

May 1, 2006

Little Hoover Commission Report Compares California’s Lack of Emergency Preparation with Katrina

May 1, 2006

Immigrants Are Not "Taking Jobs Away" From Americans

May 1, 2006

At Beginning of Immigration Day’s Events Democrats Are With The People and Republicans Are Up To Their Usual Shenanigans

May 1, 2006

Complete List of Candidates Endorsed at California Democratic Convention

May 1, 2006

All of the blogs who covered the California Democratic Convention are our sites of the day

April 30, 2006

April 30, 2006

More News From the Convention

April 30, 2006

Convention Wrap up—Sort of

April 29, 2006

Angelides Endorsement First Time in 16 Years Demo Party Has Endorsed in Contested Race for Governor

April 29, 2006

Angelides Gets Demo Party Endorsement

April 29, 2006

The gauntlet that delegates must negotiate before voting at CDP Convention

April 29, 2006

California Democrats Already United for Fall Campaign. Great Enthusiasm Amongst the Young

April 29, 2006

Progressives View From Coachella Valley

April 29, 2006

Day Two Begins: California Democratic Convention

April 29, 2006

Democrats Need a Strategic Message

April 29, 2006

Assembly Speaker Nunez Delivers Hispanic Radio Response This Saturday

April 29, 2006

Assembly Member Montañez Discusses Immigration Reform

April 28, 2006

Hamming It Up and Blogging from the California Democratic Convention

April 28, 2006

Pictures Without the Thousand Words From California Democratic Convention

April 28, 2006

From the California Progress Report Base Camp at CDP Convention

April 28, 2006

First Returns Trickle in From CA Democratic Convention

April 28, 2006

The California Democratic Party is our site of the day

April 28, 2006

We'll be at the State Democratic Convention This Morning

April 27, 2006

Attorney General Lockyer Subpoenas California Oil Refiners

April 27, 2006

New Survey Shows Education is Key Issue to Voters and in Race for Governor

April 27, 2006

Need A Laugh? Senator Obama's Gridiron Speech

April 27, 2006

The CALPIRG Citizen Agenda is our site of the day

April 27, 2006

Discount Prescription Dug Bill for Low-income Californians Passes Out of Committee

April 26, 2006

With $300K From Insurers, Vargas Pushes Bill to Overcharge Good Drivers

April 26, 2006

California Young Democrats Lobby for "American Plan" to Reform Presidential Primary Schedule

April 26, 2006

Restore Full Funding to Fair Political Practices Commission: What I Am Presenting to Legislature Today

April 26, 2006

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA is our site of the day

April 26, 2006

ASSEMBLY HEALTH COMMITTEE PASSES KEY CONSUMER BILLS

April 26, 2006

Biodiesel in California’s Future—Alternative to Petroleum

April 26, 2006

Ending Child Poverty in California: AB 2556

April 25, 2006

Progress Made on Gasoline Gouging in California

April 25, 2006

StateMaster is our site of the day

April 25, 2006

The Truth in Initiatives Act of 2006

April 24, 2006

What would Hiram Johnson do today—with Big Oil making record profits at the expense of the most vulnerable Californians?

April 24, 2006

Californians Against Waste is our site of the day

April 24, 2006

Will Arnold Support Any Efforts to Prevent Price Gouging by Oil Industry in California?

April 24, 2006

Speaker Núñez Calls for Investigation of Skyrocketing Gas Prices

April 23, 2006

Schwarzenegger on National Television This Morning: My Followup Questions

April 22, 2006

The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans on Levees—Helicopters

April 22, 2006

For Californians Who Want to Read and Reflect on Earth Day

April 22, 2006

Senate Democrats Celebrate Earth Day With 6 Bills for Clean Energy for California

April 22, 2006

Westly Celebrates Earth Day Unveiling New Solar Initiative

April 22, 2006

Angelides Celebrates Earth Day and Green Investment Initiative

April 21, 2006

The Speaker’s Commission on the Initiative Process is our Site of the Day

April 21, 2006

Discrimination Behind Low Admission Rate of African American Students to University of California Can Be Remedied

April 21, 2006

Perata Optimistic Clean Money Bill Will Pass With Amendments

April 20, 2006

Rep. Lofgren, Speaker Núñez Call on Governor to Deliver During President’s Visit to California

April 20, 2006

April 20, 2006

Is Chamber Really Supporting a Tax Increase for Education?

April 20, 2006

The Capitol Weekly is our site of the day

April 20, 2006

Speaker Núñez Makes Statement Regarding Workers’ Comp

April 20, 2006

Persistence by Senator Bowen Pays Off--Secretary of State Relents on Voter Registration

April 19, 2006

Notes From California Clean Money Hearing

April 19, 2006

Senate Health Committee Passes Groundbreaking Pharmaceutical Drug Safety Legislation

April 19, 2006

TWO-YEAR EVALUATION OF GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER’S WORKERS COMP. LAW

April 19, 2006

Democracy’s Daily Post from TheRestOfUs.org is our site of the day

April 19, 2006

California Department of Public Health-Persistence by Senator Ortiz Pays Off

April 19, 2006

Introducing the Courage Campaign

April 18, 2006

Bush and Schwarzenegger to Meet--Where's The Money?

April 18, 2006

New and Troubling Report on How Well California is Caring for Most Vulnerable Children

April 18, 2006

Making Changes in the Enterprise Zone Tax Credit—New Report Suggests Start With Tax Loophole

April 18, 2006

California Still Borrowing Despite Nationwide Trend and Surpluses in 42 States

April 18, 2006

The Field Report is our site of the day

April 17, 2006

Speak Out California is our site of the day

April 17, 2006

Interesting Insights on California Campaign Finance Reform

April 17, 2006

Who Pays Taxes in California?

April 16, 2006

Ads by US Chamber Were for Schwarzenegger and by His Key Backers, After All

April 16, 2006

California Nurses Scrub An Elephant

April 15, 2006

April 15, 2006

Differences Clearer Between Westly and Angelides on Taxes and How to Pay for Government

April 15, 2006

Assembly Member Montañez Discusses the Importance of Education

April 14, 2006

California's Structural Deficit--Key Issue in Race for Governor

April 14, 2006

Field Poll Released Today Shows Westly Leading Angelides, November a Close Election

April 14, 2006

The “Rage for Justice” video clips is our site of the day

April 13, 2006

What Our State Needs in an Infrastructure Bond to Protect Communities and the Environment

April 13, 2006

Continuing Changes In Voters’ Opinions on Immigration Reported in Field Poll

April 13, 2006

“Around the Capitol” is our site of the day

April 12, 2006

Schwarzenegger on Global Warming—“Rearrange the Deck Chairs"

April 12, 2006

How Can California Afford Health Insurance for All?

April 12, 2006

CA 50-Democrat Busby in June?

April 12, 2006

The Case of the Missing Emissions

April 12, 2006

Next Week Crucial for High Profile Prescription Drug Bills

April 11, 2006

The Krasny Show, KQED Forum, is our site of the day

April 11, 2006

Calitics is our site of the day

April 11, 2006

Universal Pre-School from the Perspective of a Parent

April 11, 2006

If You Want to Know Why Schwarzenegger Says He’s Not a Bush Republican Look At Today’s Field Poll

April 10, 2006

Help Put Clean Money on the November Ballot

April 10, 2006

The Amount We're Paying Now for Last Year's Special Election

April 10, 2006

The UC Berkeley Labor Center is our “Site of the Day.”

April 10, 2006

Arnold’s new campaign manager says the choice “will be reform and continuing to move forward vs. a failed status quo!” Maybe we have to excuse him since he hasn’t been around for the last two and a half years.

April 10, 2006

Opponents of AB 651 Include Extremists with Agenda to Dictate Patients’ Dying Choices

April 8, 2006

California Must Join Other States and Run Clean Elections

April 8, 2006

Democratic Weekly Radio Broadcast: Competition and Choice in Cable TV Market

April 7, 2006

The Politics and Policy on Flood Control: Banking Industry Opposition to AB 1898 Weakens Key Bill

April 7, 2006

National Center For Youth Law is our site of the day

April 6, 2006

Prescription Drug Reform Bills Need Your Help--Hearings This Month

April 6, 2006

HEARING SHOWS NEED FOR VOTER REG FIX

April 6, 2006

Good News From The Governor's Office? "We're Gonna Run On The Record."

April 6, 2006

The California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) is our site of the day.

April 5, 2006

Flash: Perata Supports AB 583, Clean Money Campaign Finance Reform Measure

April 5, 2006

BOWEN HEARING ON SECRETARY OF STATE’S POLICIES PREVENTING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM REGISTERING TO VOTE

April 5, 2006

Senator Ortiz’s Bill to Restore FPPC Funding Shot Down by Senate Elections Committee

April 5, 2006

Gas Prices: Regulate Oil Refiners' Market Behavior In California

April 5, 2006

Immigration Reform in Jeopardy- From American Progress Action Fund

April 5, 2006

The California Policy Inbox is our site of the day.

April 4, 2006

Health Insurance Wars Ready to Break Out: Let the Facts Win Out

April 4, 2006

California Would Become First State to Reduce All Greenhouse Gases Linked to Global Warming Under AB 32

April 4, 2006

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is our site of the day

April 4, 2006

Flood Protection Bill, AB 1898, Set for Stormy Hearing April 5

April 4, 2006

Perata’s Bills to Fund Clean Energy, Establish Air Pollution Standards for Greenhouse Gases Pass Senate Committee

April 4, 2006

New Poll Shows Schwarzenegger’s Rating Still Low, Race is Up For Grabs in Primary and General Election

April 3, 2006

Peter Shrag’s Article is our “site of the day.”

April 3, 2006

Why Schwarzenegger is Like a Deer Caught in the Headlights on Immigration

April 3, 2006

Two Brand New Polls Show Continuing Shift on Immigration in California

April 2, 2006

Does California really want things to work?: A Must Read Column by Peter Schrag

April 1, 2006

Democrats Condemn Divisive Republican Immigration Legislation in Weekly Radio Address

March 31, 2006

Californians for Compassionate Choices is our choice for site of the day

March 31, 2006

A Positive Agenda To Help Immigrants in California

March 30, 2006

AB 583, California Clean Money Bill Hearing Set on April 19—Action Needed Now!

March 30, 2006

The Blame Game, Governor vs. Legislature

March 30, 2006

Let Them Eat Cake, For a Few Years

March 30, 2006

Our site of the day is the California Nurse’s Association

March 29, 2006

Toxic Chemicals—One of the Upcoming Issues in California

March 29, 2006

Problem with State Voter Registration Database

March 29, 2006

Divorce Records Bill Raises First Amendment, Two Tier Justice Concerns

March 29, 2006

The Center for Governmental Studies is our choice for "site of the day."

March 28, 2006

Governor Schwarzenegger, the Politics of Immigration, and His Record

March 28, 2006

State Senate Hearing March 29 on Voting Machine Certification Process

March 28, 2006

Project California is our choice for site of the day

March 28, 2006

Developers Scapegoating Our Environmental Laws

March 28, 2006

Cost of Retired California State Employees’ Health Coverage Subject to Demagoguery

March 27, 2006

Time to Rattle the Cages on Bills Pending in Sacramento

March 27, 2006

Arnold threatens to veto minimum wage bill if it has cost of living increase in future years because it could “destroy the private sector!”

March 27, 2006

Speaker Lays Out Areas of Agreement and Disagreement with Republicans on Bonds

March 27, 2006

California Clean Money Campaign is our choice for Site of the Day

March 25, 2006

Slavery and Human Trafficking in California Today

March 25, 2006

Speaker Highlights Immigration Policy, D.C. Trip in Weekly Radio Address

March 24, 2006

Disturbing News About the Plight of Black Men

March 24, 2006

Good Luck On Your Trip to Washington D.C. Mr. Speaker, You'll Need It!

March 24, 2006

Senators Incredulous About Permanent Disability Regulations Adopted Without Data

March 24, 2006

The Directory of Links

March 23, 2006

Voters Injured At Work (VIAW) is our choice for “site of the day”

March 23, 2006

Injured Worker Says 99% Reduction of Permanent Disability Payments is a “Slap in the Face.”

March 22, 2006

New Study Shows Pollution Problems on Majority of Sierra Rivers

March 22, 2006

The California Channel is Our Site of the Day

March 22, 2006

Governor Should Keep His Promise That He Would Not Hurt Permanently Injured Workers

March 21, 2006

Rough & Tumble is Our Site of the Day

March 21, 2006

Prison Rehabilitation: A Name on a Door

March 21, 2006

Lawsuit Filed Against Secretary of State for Allowing Diebold Electronic Voting Machines

March 21, 2006

Bonds: A Look Back At What The Senate Voted On

March 20, 2006

Alliance for a Better California is Our Choice

March 20, 2006

State Prison Chief Resignation Calls into Question Governor’s Commitment to Reform

March 19, 2006

California Bill to Reform Electoral College: Issue Gets National Attention

March 18, 2006

Bee Frames Issue "Water's two religions, beware a clash of Birkenstocks, concrete"

March 18, 2006

Speaker Nunez Discusses Assembly's Efforts In Passing Infrastructure Bonds

March 17, 2006

The Buried Story: Democracy Lost in Rejection of Bonds This Week

March 17, 2006

The California Budget Project

March 17, 2006

Angelides vs. Schwarzenegger-Distinct Visions for State

March 16, 2006

Eye on Immigration: Real State Solutions

March 16, 2006

California Must Lead On The Environment By Steve Westly

March 16, 2006

Newspapers Across State Blame Schwarzenegger for Defeat of Bonds

March 15, 2006

State Senate Votes $1 Billion for Levees and Flood Control Out of General Fund. No Bonds Until November Unless Something Truly Extraordinary Happens.

March 15, 2006

Legislature Meeting on Bond Issues--Stay Tuned

March 15, 2006

Leadership Needed in State Child Welfare System. Help Pass AB 2216.

March 15, 2006

California Can Lead In Fighting "Conservative Message Machine" That Is In All 50 States

March 14, 2006

The Planning and Conservation League

March 14, 2006

The Policy and Politics of Infrastructure, Bonds, Levees, and Flood Control

March 13, 2006

Latest on the Bonds: Assembly Is Debating Tonight

March 13, 2006

Character or Issues in the Governor’s Race? Two Sides of the Same Coin.

March 13, 2006

Democrats Call for Quick Action on Bond Plan and Demonstrate Commitment to Core Values

March 13, 2006

Foundation for Consumer and Taxpayer Rights

March 13, 2006

Time to Give the Drug Companies a Prescription for Honesty

March 13, 2006

Giving Shareholders a Say Over Political Contributions

March 13, 2006

What is Progressive?

March 13, 2006

Angelides Unveils Plan To Protect Coast, End Schwarzenegger Neglect

March 13, 2006

Westly Discusses His ‘Clean Coast Initiative’

March 13, 2006

New CA Assembly Minority Leader Received $19,000 from Alleged Cunningham Co-Conspirator Briber

March 13, 2006

AB 651-California Compassionate Choices Act To Be Heard In Senate Committee Soon

March 13, 2006

A Better Cell Phone Bill of Rights for California

March 13, 2006

The Immigration Debate Heats Up a Notch

March 13, 2006

"Where's The Hearing On The Diebold Security Flaws Discovered By The Secretary Of State?"

March 11, 2006

Bowen Renews Initiative Reform Effort

March 1, 2006

Legislators Disappointed in Governor's Trip to DC

March 1, 2006

Angelides Vision on Environmental Issues

March 1, 2006

Angelides Plan for Higher Education

March 1, 2006

Protecting Against Floods Called "Job Killer!"

March 1, 2006

Emergency Panel Hasn't Met since 2002

March 1, 2006

Support for Prop 82 by Terry Preston

February 28, 2006

Levee Needs Not a New Issue for Legislators

February 14, 2006

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