California Forward
Another week, another blast at the Citizens Redistricting Commission. But, all the Commission did was take a preliminary step to interpret an ambiguous area in redistricting law.
read moreCalifornians are speaking loud and clear during the ongoing series of Stakeholder Roundtables CA Fwd is hosting across the state. On April 27, CA Fwd held the Inland Empire Regional Stakeholder Roundtable, the first event of its kind …
read moreThe State Accountability Project is an unprecedented effort to create a 50-state ranking of government transparency and accountability.
read moreThe time has come to take this show back on the road. Over the last several months, in a series of stakeholder meetings in Sacramento and more than 50 Speak Up California civic engagement forums across the state …
read moreCA Fwd continues to visit events all over the state to hear from you about how best to restructure our government, and we want to hear from you.
read moreThe Sacramento Bee’s Kevin Yamamura takes a closer look at the gerrymandering of CA legislative districts which led to one district line being drawn right through a college campus.
read more‘I read the cover story in The Economist this week about what the reporter (Andreas Kluth) believes is a dysfunctional government in California. He essentially argues that there’s too much democracy, that the initiative process has created unwieldy ballot box budgeting and that has paralyzed the state. I thought it was very simplistic.
read moreSome of the same state legislators who benefited from the higher education system now won’t act to keep it whole.
read moreWherever we go in California, we hear the same themes again and again: The state’s current governance system is broken, it lacks a focus on results, it is too complex, and there are too many decisions being made in Sacramento that could be made better by our own community governments.
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