Governor Jerry Brown announced this week that the deficit has ballooned to a monstrous $16 billion dollars, an amount equal to 17 percent of the state’s entire general fund.

So, California’s […]

Increasingly, we live in an age of all-or-nothing politics.  Too often, lines are drawn in the sand as rigid ideological positions deny real opportunities for practical solutions to complex problems.  A […]

In 2010, I supported Proposition 25 which was sold to the voters as a way to make Legislators accountable for passing a balanced budget.  Prop 25 said essentially if the Legislature did not pass a […]