CA FWD NEWS

Election results bring landscape and climate change to education
 150 150 Paul Tran
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In the educational and social justice community, we hope the 2010 election results will bring literal and figurative climate change to Sacramento and California. Key election results present new hopes and opportunities for the communities we represent: low-income families, immigrants, and students of color.

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Speaking Up for California at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Los Angeles
 150 150 Gina Baleria
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Angelenos were just as passionate as those in D.C. on Oct. 30 about the desire to restore common sense, reasonable dialogue, communication, and fair compromise to government and society.

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Speaking truth to power
 150 150 Fred Silva
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Once again, Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor is playing the role of Toto in the Wizard of Oz. He pulled the curtain back and revealed for citizens of the state that little secret about the state budget that the great Wizards (Governor and Legislature) would not admit.

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Election results complicate efforts for structural reform
 150 150 Loren Kaye
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California voters demonstrated their famed misdirection on Nov. 2, stopping the Republican tsunami at the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but also sending a strong message about the size and reach of government, and just how far they will trust politicians, once elected to office.

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The bottom line – budgetarily speaking – on 3 propositions (that are now the law of the land)
 150 150 Fred Silva
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Now that the slate mailers are in the recycling bin, how did this election affect the State’s precarious fiscal condition? Is the 2010-11 state budget still in balance? Is the problem bigger or smaller than it was on Monday, Nov. 1?

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League of Women Voters of California hails voters’ confirmation of redistricting reform
 150 150 League of Women Voters
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On Nov. 2, California voters decisively rejected Proposition 27 and the attempt to destroy the far-reaching redistricting reform passed by the voters in 2008.

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