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How Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Using the Budget Crisis to Wreck California's Futurenew
Schwarzenegger sees himself as a man with bold, sometimes even liberal ideas who is forced to propose massive budget cuts as a result of a broken government and a deadlocked legislature. The reality the governor is attempting to hide is much different.
Random Lengths News |
Robert Cruickshank |
07-18-2009 |
Commentary
California is in the Worst Mess in its History ... Who Will Save the Golden State?new
California's economy looks like it's driving off a cliff. But we've already crashed over the railing and are now free falling towards certain doom.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jessica Lyons |
07-16-2009 |
Politics
Single-Payer Advocates Crashing the Gatesnew
One of the main reasons I am running for Congress is to get single payer health care for all Americans. To push for it, I am running prime-time cable ads round-the-clock on CNN and MSNBC challenging my opponent, longtime incumbent Jane Harman, to sign on to Congressman John Conyers' bill for single-payer.
Random Lengths News |
Marcy Winograd |
07-05-2009 |
Commentary
A Chance for Meaningful Change in Sacramentonew
The skunking of all five special election budget measures backed by Gov. Arnold and the Can't Shoot Straight Legislature was a clear signal that voters are way beyond fed up with half-measures, marginal fixes and smoke and mirrors in Sacramento.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts |
05-29-2009 |
Commentary
A Historic Stalemate Results in a Revolving Door of Crisis in Californianew
California's Democrats and the Republicans can't seem to get their minds around the solutions of paying for a state that dwarfs the economies of all but six countries in the world and that is the most populous state in the union. A new path is necessary.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
05-22-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: California, recession
I've Got No Love for Seven Out of 10 Black Voters in Californianew
Yes, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, was a day when you truly felt proud to be an American. But then, on Nov. 5, I read something that changed all that. I read that California's black voters favored Proposition 8 by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, which means seven out of 10 black voters voted against gay marriage.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
11-12-2008 |
Commentary
Orange County Sings the Obama Bluesnew
Election night in California's bastion of conservatism: Frolicking Dems, Dana Rohrabacher unbound, praying for fag hags, and booze all around.
In California, the Mystery Voters Have Their Waynew
The record-breaking 13-million-plus voters proved to be a mercurial throng who followed no code or discernible ideology, placing into the state constitution a ban on gay marriage, even as they trampled a proposal to require notification of parents whose daughters seek abortions. It was an almost schizophrenic Coalition of Whatever.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
11-07-2008 |
Politics
An Interview with California Lt. Gov Garamendinew
John Garamendi was invited to speak to the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce on September 30 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel which is important to Harbor area residents and businesses because he sits as the Chair of the State’s Tidelands commission which oversees all of the ports of the state including LA and Long Beach.
Random Lengths News |
Staff |
10-31-2008 |
Politics
Tags: California, John Garamendi
Longtime California Congressmember Faces Challenge This Fallnew
To say Republican Matt Kokkonen is a long shot in his quest to unseat Lois Capps as the representative of California's 23rd U.S. Congressional District might be understating it.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Chris Meagher |
10-06-2008 |
Politics
SEIU Boss Andy Stern Wouldn't Mind if McCain Gets Electednew
America's most powerful labor leader finds himself in an unusual and ironic position where his own political interests may run contrary to those of the labor movement itself. Stern could conceivably find himself harmed, rather than helped, by an Obama victory.
Debbie Cook Takes on Orange County's Weirdest Republican Congressmannew
With little help from her fellow Democrats, Huntington Beach Mayor Debbie Cook takes on Orange County's weirdest Republican congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, a fight primarily motivated by the "Surfing Congressman's" ignorance of environmental issues.
Obama's Silicon Valley Volunteers Play Key Role in Battleground Statesnew
With California locked up, the national Obama campaign decided not to let the smoothly functioning, highly responsive high-tech organization go to waste. Now, they want the Palo Alto group to turn their energy toward Nevada, a shifty swing state with five electoral votes at stake.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Erin Sherbert |
08-21-2008 |
Politics
Rising Independent Voters are Really the Decidersnew
As California secretary of state Debra Bowen has tracked the increasing trend of declining to state party affiliation, presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain are probably paying attention, too.
Sacramento News & Review |
Greg Lucas |
07-24-2008 |
Politics
Aiming for the White House, Cynthia McKinney Goes Greennew
The controversial congresswoman brings her campaign for the Green Party presidential nomination to Northern California.
Sacramento News & Review |
Seth Sandronksy |
05-27-2008 |
Politics
