After facing years of state budget cuts, the University of California’s higher education system will see an increase in funding in the state’s 2010-2011 budget agreed to
You read that headline right. In his weekly radio address on Saturday, Gov. Schwarzenegger said Republican legislators tried to block badly needed public pension reform. The reason for this seemed
How do you get official approval of large-scale fraud, theft, and racketeering? You become a mortgage originator (i.e. a “Too-big-To-Fail bank”) like me. No really,
Last week, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown (D) came under fire when a voicemail inadvertently recorded a private conversation in which a Brown aide suggests that Republican candidate Meg Whitman
While some pundits and politicians on the left have tried minimizing the Tea Party as an irrelevant sect in American politics, others on the left are saying otherwise. Media Matters,
It seems the natural gas industry is booming these days because of new technology to extract energy from shale down below the earth's surface. As a result, gas
While Proposition 14, California’s new open primary law, doesn’t take effect until June 2012, it’s still influencing this November’s elections. The measure, opposed by both the
With the Boxer-Fiorina race continually veering between a toss-up and a slight Democratic leaning, the battle for who will be California’s next junior Senator should be heating
Former 3rd party Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura claims that political parties, including third parties, should be abolished in order to root out corruption in a broken system.
In a recent
California has always been on the leading edge of sustainable agriculture policy with what has to be the largest and most diverse selection of food movement organizations. Last week, the
One of the most common criticisms of the two-party system is that the Democratic and Republican parties have become so polarized that they can no longer work together to