Amelia Timbers

JD/MBA candidate at Northeastern University specializing in energy and nonprofit law. Holds BA degrees in Legal Studies and Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz. Freelance writer.

Will Schwarzenegger lose the line item veto?

While Schwarzenegger's cold shoulder to social causes is readily apparent, his ability to cut spending from appropriation bills using the line item veto may be at risk today.

By Amelia Timbers

/ December 17, 2009

Schwarzenegger: Republican Climate Protector?

I’ve previously written that Schwarzenegger’s state failures on state parks, recycling, funding public education, opposing teachers, nurses and firefighters (not to mention his failures on abortion rights and

By Amelia Timbers

/ December 17, 2009

Divorce Ban Protects Marriage, Like It or Not

In a tart response to the Proposition 8 controversy, writer and web manager John Marcotte has made a tongue in cheek effort to encourage Californians in taking all measures to

By Amelia Timbers

/ December 7, 2009

Schwarzenegger's Recycling Fail Betrays His Conservative Hard-Line

California’s budget crisis has moved from a hemorrhage to a slow implosion, and now desperation is clearly setting in as the state slashes trademark programs. As of November, the

By Amelia Timbers

/ December 7, 2009

Term Limits: An Argument For Firing Everybody

Californians now, more than ever, may recognize how much of their state’s economy runs on the lifeblood of state spending. In the current economic freefall, as the state struggles

By Amelia Timbers

/ December 7, 2009

Who's Killing the Electric Train?

The California bullettrain, a high speed, electric train running a two-hour route betweenSacramento and San Diego, is a grand dream. It is a grand dream broughtcloser to reality by

By Amelia Timbers

/ April 17, 2009

Gays and Independents

A classmate of mine at Northeastern School of Law, Greg Huff, recently died. At his memorial, a professor read some of his legal work. To paraphrase one of Greg'

By Amelia Timbers

/ April 14, 2009

Giving Desalination a Chance

California is as good asout of fresh water. The state is thrown into drought conditions with everyless-than-abundant-rain year, and a series of dry years (like now) decimatereservoirs

By Amelia Timbers

/ April 13, 2009

Moderates We Are Not

Open primary advocates posit that an open primary could produce more moderate candidates. But why would we want that? California's value at least partially lies in its ability

By Amelia Timbers

/ March 19, 2009

Open Primary Totally Partisan

The open primary policyproposed by Sen. Abel Maldonado in the midnight hour of budget talks isnot beneficial to California's independent voters. It does not increasecandidate choice, it does

By Amelia Timbers

/ March 10, 2009