Dan Weintraub’s column in the Sacramento Bee lays out the case for redistricting reform and its logical relation to term limits reform: Bottom line: Term limits reform is a good idea, but without reform of the way district lines are drawn, it could make a bad system even worse. Continue Reading
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Myers on the CommonCensus Project and Redistricting
Thanks to KQED’s John Myers of the Capitol Notes blog for the link; check out his comments on the post below: Whether this research turns out to be valid remains unknown… but just a quick glance at the California map suggests that like-minded people aren’t bound by traditional borders. And that’s one of the challenges… Continue Reading
Rose Report in Sacramento Bee's Capitol Alert
A belated thanks to Shane Goldmacher from the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert. Last week Goldmacher recommended The Rose Report as a “top blog covering the California political scene.” The Rose Report is now a link on the Capitol Alert website. Continue Reading
The Boundaries You Feel: the CommonCensus Map Project
Found via the Marcus P. Zillman blog: The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your input, to reveal the boundaries people themselves feel, as opposed to the state and county boundaries drawn by politicians. View the maps to see how the country is divided into ‘spheres of influence’… Continue Reading
Walters on Prop. 93 & Redistricting
Dan Walters’ Sac Bee column today on Prop. 93, the now controversial term limits initiative, says in part: …once the term limit ballot measure was launched, they reneged on redistricting reform, without so much as an explanation. What that means, in effect, is that they are asking voters not only to give them longer careers… Continue Reading
Happy Thanksgiving
We will return on Monday. Continue Reading
Partisan Fun with Redistricting Analysis
The Daily Kos has a potentially interesting post for redistricting buffs entitled “Did GOP Gerrymander Itself Out of Power?” Continue Reading
Business Climate: Location, Location, Re-Location
PPIC has another report out this month, Business Location Decisions and Employment Dynamics in California, which sounds interesting: Much recent debate about the state’s economy has focused on the narrow issue of whether California businesses are moving to other states—taking jobs with them. In this report, PPIC researchers Jed Kolko and David Neumark examine the… Continue Reading
Changing Birth Rates in CA
Dan “Propagandist for the extremists who control today’s GOP” (see below) Walters has an interesting post up pointing to a PPIC report detailing the ever changing demographics of our fair state. The PPIC summary says: Teen birth rates in California are dropping dramatically, and last year were the lowest the state has ever recorded. In… Continue Reading
Unruh’s Disputed Legacy
Nevermind the biased press Bill Cavala sees while observing coverage of the ill-fated Proposition 93. In another recent post about Sac Bee columnist Dan Walters’ aforementioned book review, Cavala claims that “‘Pop’ historians like Walters are really propagandists for the extremists who control today’s G.O.P.” As one might guess, redistricting history is a part of… Continue Reading