California Forward
As he inherits California’s chronic budget problems, Gov. Jerry Brown says he wants to try a new approach to dealing with the state’s massive deficits: a broad restructuring of the relationship between the state and local governments…
read moreCalifornians want a path forward – one right step after another. We need to stop the bleeding and start the healing, make government work again, and support…
read moreThe direness of California’s budget crisis has one silver lining: efforts to reform state government are finally gaining traction with voters and lawmakers…
read moreAs California begins another year with a huge budget deficit, let me make some predictions. Before the confetti from the New Year’s party hits the floor, the Legislature will slide into its time-honored gridlock…
read more“Game changers.” In Silicon Valley, we use this term for cutting-edge products and processes that leapfrog the competition…
read moreNext week, Jerry Brown will take the helm of the maligned entity known as the Golden State. Much of the state’s glimmer has been lost since the last time…
read moreOver the last few weeks, much has been written about our current Governor’s legacy and the recall election which swept him into office…
read moreConcern increases daily among soon-to-be high school graduates, their parents, the more than 670,000 current University of California and California State University students, and millions of Californians, as they watch…
read moreAs we wrap up 2010 and prepare to enter 2011, The Bay Citizen’s Jonathan Weber breaks down the good and the bad for the Bay Area (and California) economy.
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