December 2, 2020

Pet videos populate Facebook all the time, but one posted during this frenzied election season stood out: A service dog named Maggie Magoo had voted by mail in Santa Cruz, its owner said. Not just that, the owner claimed Maggie was registered to vote using her microchip number as a social security number.  The story, […]

A lot of Career Technical Education programs require a great deal of hands-on experience. In a situation where in-person teaching is inherently dangerous, that’s required a lot of innovation on the part of educators.

California’s churches are on a roll. After more than a year of legal tussling with state public health officials over restrictions on indoor gatherings, houses of worship — mostly evangelical or Catholic and politically conservative — have been on a winning streak at the nation’s highest court.  Their latest victory came late last week when […]

California elected officials are rapidly losing credibility at a critical point in the pandemic, with hospitalizations at an all-time high and Gov. Gavin Newsom expected to announce a state lockdown today. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle broke the news that Mayor London Breed attended a dinner party with seven other people at the three-Michelin-starred […]

We must leverage California’s expertise in science and technology to strengthen its resilience to multiple, simultaneous and interactive disasters.

After years of mounting failure to address affordable housing and homelessness at the scale of the need required, 2021 will be California’s big chance.

Read this article in English.     Mientras el gobernador Gavin Newsom prepara nuevas restricciones con respecto a las reuniones para combatir la escalada de casos de coronavirus, tiene otro obstáculo que superar: la cada vez más conservadora Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. La semana pasada, el tribunal más alto de la nación, junto con su juez más reciente, […]

Republicans' big comeback in California congressional elections this year sets the stage for another showdown in 2022.