After spring break, Claremont McKenna College junior Ritika Puri will be moving up from her position as the manager of our Kosmont-Rose Cost of Doing Business Survey to being the next student manager of the entire Rose Institute. We are happy to report that she has also received recognition for her equally excellent work outside… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rose Report
City of Pasadena Working to Endorse Reform
The Pasadena Star-News reports that the Pasadena city council is working towards a resolution in support of the Voters First initiative: The City Council is aiming to be the first in the state to endorse a plan to change the way state assembly and senate districts are drawn up. The council, at the prompting of… Continue Reading
Dr. Pitney on FPPC Report
From Steve Geissinger’s article as it appeared in the Daily Democrat: Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College, said the report’s findings were to be expected. “As long as interest groups want to influence the government,” Pitney said, “curbing their spending is like holding back the Pacific Ocean with a chain-link fence.” Continue Reading
Dr. Pitney Featured in Daily Bulletin
From Will Bigham’s article in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: When Jack Pitney speaks about politics, people listen.The Claremont McKenna College government professor is frequently quoted in national and local publications on the subject. Pitney’s career in politics started in 1978, when he worked as a researcher for a New York state senator. He soon… Continue Reading
Douglas M. Johnson on Voters First
From Fred Ortega’s article in the Pasadena Star News: But Common Cause’s approach may have a better chance at becoming law than past proposals, said Douglas Johnson of the Rose Institute for State and Local Government at Claremont-McKenna College. “This is a complicated issue, so when the powers that be throw in millions of dollars… Continue Reading
More on Governor and Redistricting
KQED’s John Myers has a very detailed report of Schwarzenegger and Westly working together supporting the Voters First redistricting measure: This morning, Schwarzenegger went back to Natomas … to launch another initiative campaign to reform redistricting. Working the early lunch/late breakfast crowd at a Mimi’s Cafe, the governor promoted a new redistricting initiative, this one… Continue Reading
Governor Collecting Signatures
The AP has a story, here in the SF Chronicle, on Schwarzenegger’s new effort to collect signatures to qualify the Voters First initiative. The full text is below: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has begun a drive to qualify a November ballot measure that would take away legislators’ ability to draw their own districts.The Republican governor says… Continue Reading
Maryland Redistricting
The Capitol Editorial Board recently published an opinion peice on Maryland’s redistricting that sounds very familiar to what we have seen in other states, including California: “When Maryland’s political powers-that-be gathered behind closed doors in 1992 and again in 2002 to draw new political districts, they carved up Anne Arundel County like a Christmas turkey.Once… Continue Reading
"Super Fast Geospatial Analysis"
From the James Fee GIS Blog: If this working “on-demand†model were available it would be a gold-mine for political interest groups and consumer marketing firms. Continue Reading
Bass and Steinberg Re: Term Limits and Redistricting
From a Sacramento Bee editorial: Bass and Steinberg will have a lot on their plates in coming months, and the state’s fiscal troubles must be their first priority. But if they can set the state on a multiyear plan for resolving its structural deficit, which they absolutely must do, they should turn their attention toward… Continue Reading