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It’s a sign of desperation. When anyone in politics starts making wild claims less than a month before an election, you know something is amiss. So it is with the proponents of Proposition 15, the ...

When we’re not studying state finances we read financial reports issued by cities and school districts. Recently we took a look at the City and County of San Francisco where annual cash spending on ...

Shoplifting and stealing are becoming a bigger problem in California, which is why small businesses are showing interest in two statewide ballot measures that deal with crime and justice. Proposition ...

The wildfire crisis gripping California has touched every corner of the state. Beyond the loss of lives and destruction in communities, a grim cascade of harms has unfolded for people living in both ...

Once in a while, a ballot initiative suggests a new idea. Former Assemblymember Mike Gatto, an L.A. Democrat, has come up with one. He has filed an initiative that seeks a middle way to dealing with ...

The flair up over moving transportation funds from fixing road projects to alternative transportation modes to fight climate change has the distinct feel of a bait and switch on the public even though ...

Plebiscites are bad. Elected officials shouldn’t sponsor ballot initiatives. But there are advantages to the fact that so many California politicians have sponsored measures. At the very least, they ...

Imagine you are a donor to a non-profit organization whose board members receive gifts from employees to whom the board, without your consent, promises retirement benefits. Now the organization is ...

Finally, Election Day has come and the deluge of mailings and television commercials will end. These fine-tuned messages, crafted in hopes of manipulating voters, in a strange way, reminded me of the ...

There is an undercurrent to the debate on San Francisco’s Proposition C that proposes to increase the gross receipts tax on big companies to pay for homeless services. On the surface the campaign is ...

Carl DeMaio, the leader of the Proposition 6 gas tax repeal campaign wants to recall Attorney General Xavier Becerra for what he termed a false title on the measure. While the title was vague, ...