CA FWD NEWS

California elected leaders—not always open and transparent about their voting record
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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The Associated Press, this week, reported exclusively that it had analyzed every vote cast during the 2012 session and discovered California Assembly members changed and added their votes to legislation more than 5,000 times.

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San Francisco getting on Open Data bandwagon
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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A government at your fingertips. That’s what leaders in the city and county of San Francisco hope with new legislation to strengthen the city by the bay’s landmark Open Data initiatives.

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California voter registration en route to a record
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Over 1 million Californians filed voter applications online this fall and over 380,000 of them have already been qualified. All told nearly 700,000 Californians registered to vote in the 45 days leading up to the October 22nd deadline.

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The realignment story in California is still being written
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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“The hard truth is, despite what you hear from many people on both sides of the argument, we just don’t know yet,” Sharon Aungst, director of California Forward’s Partnership for Community Excellence told the Association for Criminal Justice Research in California.

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Looking at California’s jobs numbers from a step back
 150 150 John Guenther
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What does a drop in California unemployment but few jobs created mean?

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Redwood Coast injecting life into local economy
 150 150 Justin Ewers
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As recently as a decade ago, the sprawling redwood north of California, a region the size of Connecticut and New Jersey combined, had no broadband access, difficult transportation challenges across hundreds of miles of mountains, and a generation of workers who found themselves tempted to tell their children to move elsewhere to find good jobs.

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Santa Ana bolsters transparency efforts by approving Sunshine Ordinance
 150 150 Alexandra Bjerg
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Earlier this week, the City of Santa Ana agreed to let the sunshine in. On Monday the city council approved the community driven “Sunshine Ordinance” designed to bring transparency to City Hall.

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