November 10, 2020

With the failure of Proposition 15, the $140 million campaign to hike property taxes on businesses across the state finally comes to a close. Now begins a new statewide competition to explain what the results really mean.  For opponents, which include large business groups, commercial landlords and low-tax advocates, the lesson is clear: Forty years […]

 Lea este artículo en español. As if permanent markers didn’t already make enough of a mess, enter #sharpiegate. With votes for Biden mounting, a group of Trump supporters showed up to a ballot counting facility in Arizona’s Maricopa County last Wednesday and cried foul. Their claim: Poll workers were encouraging voters to mark their ballots with […]

Read this article in English.           Ya en 2009, el entonces presidente de la Corte Suprema de California, Ron George, preguntó: “¿Se ha convertido la iniciativa de los votantes en la herramienta del tipo de intereses especiales que se pretendía controlar y en un impedimento para el funcionamiento eficaz de un verdadero proceso democrático? “ Esa pregunta […]

Read this article in English.    Como si los marcadores permanentes no hubieran causado suficiente desorden, ingrese #sharpiegate. Con los votos en aumento a favor de Biden, un grupo de partidarios de Trump se presentó a una instalación de recuento de votos en el condado de Maricopa de Arizona el miércoles pasado y gritó una falta. Su […]

Ahora que el gobierno federal ha abandonado la protección para la mayoría de los lobos, el trabajo de protegerlos recae en los gobernadores, legisladores y comisiones de vida silvestre.

Read this article in English.   California ha adoptado de todo corazón la Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo Precio: la anuncia, invierte en ella, la protege. Incluso va a los tribunales por ella.  Eso es porque el Estado Dorado tiene mucho que perder si se revoca la ley, también conocida como Obamacare. Hoy, el tribunal […]

Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, November 10. Note: The newsletter will pause Wednesday in recognition of Veterans Day. I’ll be back in your inbox on Thursday. Health insurance on the line Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare — […]

Now that the federal government has abandoned protection for most wolves, the job of protecting them falls to governors, legislators and wildlife commissions.

Lea este artículo en español. California has wholeheartedly embraced the Affordable Care Act — it advertises it, it invests in it, it protects it. It even went to court for it. And won. Today, in a 7-2 decision in California et al. v. Texas, the Supreme Court voted to reject the latest challenge to the Affordable Care […]

California should create a citizens’ initiative review process to weigh in independently for the public interest when special interests are battling it out.