California’s Gun Medicine
Why we should be treating gun violence as a disease—and why most states can't.
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How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All
A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name.
Mentally Ill? Here’s a Bus Ticket
A Las Vegas hospital is transporting mentally ill patients via solo trips on Greyhound buses.
Prius Sales Suggest Californians Really Are More Eco-Friendly
When it comes to the environment, California car buyers are, if you’ll excuse the expression, walking the walk.…
The Game Done Changed, Governor Brown
Election Day is tomorrow, and Prop 30, a California ballot initiative notable for its tax hike on the…
Ditch Day Economics: California Schools Paying $35 a Day, Per Kid
In my coworker’s email this morning, from the school principal: Hi parents. My sources have told me that…
The Corrections
In 1896, William Randolph Hearst unleashed his pit-bull ace reporter, Ambrose Bierce, in the nation’s capital to expose the Railroad robber baron's grip on California’s Legislature. Reforms happened. The state was returned to its people. Trouble is, some of those fixes are bringing California to its knees.
Local Governance: Unlocking Realignment
Efforts to reform California’s governing system often focus on one or two ideas that can be turned into ballot initiatives. Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s Think Long Committee was different. Members agreed on a broader approach – offering a series of integrated proposals in seven major areas with the goal of designing a new governing system. Here are highlights of those recommendations, and how they fell a little short of hopes in squaring Sacramento's needs with those of local governments.
The Third Act: Professor Schwarzenegger
Can the former governor get state and local governments to do what the federal government can’t? And can he do it through a post-partisan academic think tank?
Citizens Council: The Third-and-a-half Branch of Government
Efforts to reform California’s governing system often focus on one or two ideas that can be turned into ballot initiatives. Billionaire Nicolas Berggruen’s Think Long Committee was different. Members agreed on a broader approach – offering a series of integrated proposals in seven major areas with the goal of designing a new governing system. Here are highlights of those recommendations, and how they reached them, in calling for the creation of a sitting citizens' council to help run the state.