According to a recent article in Capital Weekly, Twitter, the fast growing social networking messaging site has managed to make its way into coverage of Sacramento. John Myers of KQED started a Twitter account to cover the budget negotiations in Sacramento, and it quickly became one of the most important sources for the latest news:… Continue Reading
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Open Primary Text
Thanks to Rose Friend Tony Quinn for providing the text of SCA 4, California’s Open Primary measure for the June 2010 ballot. Also, Tony sent along the very interesting ballot label that the legislature ordered printed on the ballots: “ELECTIONS. PRIMARIES. GREATER PARTICIPATION 1N ELECTIONS. Reforms the primary election process for congressional, statewide, and legislative… Continue Reading
Doug Johnson on Open Primaries on New York Times Blog
Doug Johnson was featured today in a recently created New York Times website blog named, “Room for Debate” that follows and comments on the news as it happens. Today the blog is focusing on the recently passed California Budget. Doug comments on one of the last minute compromises in budget negotiations that led holdout Republican… Continue Reading
Opinion Piece in Arizona Daily Star Calls Independent Redistricting Success
A recent opinion piece in the Arizona Daily Star by Steve Lynn, the head of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, calls the commission’s work a success. Mr. Lynn particularly highlights the improved competition in Congressional districts: Over the last four elections, voter loyalties have shifted, both nationally and in Arizona. The Republican trends of 2002… Continue Reading
Kosmont Survey Featured in Orange County Register Article
The results of the Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey recently showed up in an article on states trying to lure California businesses in the Orange County Register. The article mentions the Kosmont Survey’s results showing many very expensive California cities. This comes on the heels of four consecutive years of substantially more Californians… Continue Reading
Frates on County Welfare Payments
Dr. Frates was quoted recently in the San Bernadino County Sun on the subject of the effect of the state withholding welfare payments to counties during the current budget crisis. Dr. Frates believes that counties have little recourse in this conflict: Whether counties sue the state or withhold revenue from it, the state ultimately has… Continue Reading
VA Governor and DNC Chair Calls for Redistricting Reform in VA
Tim Kaine, Governor of the state of Virginia and President Obama’s recent choice to be head of the Democratic National Committee recently called on members of the Virginia House of Delegates to pass a bill that would create an independent redistricting commission according to a report by WHSV Channel 3 in Virginia. The Virginia Senate… Continue Reading
Editorial Blasts Virginia House of Delegates Vote Against Redistricting Reform
A recent editorial in the Washington Post takes issue with a vote in the Virginia Legislature against redistricting reform. A subcommittee of the Virginia House of Delegates Privileges and Elections committee voted along partisan lines, with Republicans in the majority, to put a stop to bills that would change who draws congressional and state legislature… Continue Reading
Frates on the California Budget
Dr. Frates was recently quoted in the Orange County Register about what he thinks of the California budget crisis. Dr. Frates provides his analysis of how the situation might move forward: Sacramento’s choices almost always boil down to “tax increases or a decrease in the rate of increase of expenditures,” Dr. Steven B. Frates, senior… Continue Reading
Frates on the Power of Rolling Hills Estates
Dr. Frates weighs in in a recent Daily Breeze article about the fact that Rolling Hills Estates’ political leaders are well represented in influential statewide groups like the League of California Cities and the California Contract Cities Organization. “It’s unusual and it’s probably a reflection of the fact that these individuals are held in high… Continue Reading