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OPINION: Voters Must Cast Off the Shackles of Two-Party Control
On Page D1, April 14, in the Portland Press Herald, the headline on Jim Fossel’s column states: “Simplification of tax code would achieve bipartisan goals.” The other, on Brian Klaas’ commentary, read...
SANDAG Goes Back To The Future: The 2007 Vision For A "Grand Central Station"
An Update on the Lindbergh Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC) OptionBy Carl NettletonThe San Diego Association of Government’s (SANDAG) leadership in developing a proposed Grand Central Station to...
SANDAG Goes Back To The Future: The 2007 Vision For A “Grand Central Station”
An Update on the Lindbergh Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC) OptionBy Carl NettletonThe San Diego Association of Government’s (SANDAG) leadership in developing a proposed Grand Central Station to...
OPINION: Lincoln Was Wrong; Government Of, By, & For The People Was Always Aspirational
Seven score and sixteen years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most memorable speeches in all of human history in his Gettysburg Address, though he wrongly presumed the world would ...
Basketball Battles and Political Scores (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game)
With politics in a permanent state of chaos, we might have to look outside the political sphere to be grounded politically. At least I do. Sports is a good place to turn -- real sports, not the blood ...
The Impending Disaster of California's Confusing Presidential Primary
The 2016 presidential primaries in California didn’t go smoothly. The election was marred by widespread confusion and frustration as millions of voters had to navigate a complex and restrictive semi-c...
The Second American Revolution: 5-Minute Boot Camp For Unrigging Our Government
I’ve got some good news and some bad news. And once we put it all together, it’ll be news you can use — an easy way to join the Second American Revolution, now in progress.First, the bad news: You are...
GOP, Dems Double Down on Anti-Democratic Policies, But We're Not Having It
In 2017, a groundbreaking Harvard Business School analysis of the U.S. political system exposed the lie that we live in a “two-party system.” Written by business leader Katherine Gehl and the “father ...
Betrayed and Outraged: Winning The Rural Vote In Today's Political Climate
Let’s just call everything outside major urban centers, the rural vote. Betrayed by politicians of every political party, left out of every agriculture-related policy decision in every government agen...
State Court, Politicians Deny Voters the Open Primaries Reform They Demand
By all accounts New Mexico would seem to be a strong candidate for reform of their primary elections. At least that’s what we thought when we started working with local activists to build support ther...