Californians

Can California be optimistic and pessimistic at the same time?
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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Unaffiliated voters apparently don’t vote as much as Democrats and Republicans. So we have less NPPs and less young people heading to the polls, which doesn’t bode well for how representative elected officials actually are of the people they represent.

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New grant bolsters Asian American Pacific Islander community
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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For the first time, Advancing Justice-L.A. received a grant from the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), to provide English as a Second Language (ESL) and Civics classes to the AAPI communities of L.A.

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Futures Conference presents vision for a reformed California
 150 150 Ed Coghlan
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At Fullerton College in Orange County, a community college that is celebrating its first 100 years, the theme was to look to the future in business, education, science, technology and government.

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Californians grade the state with new report card app
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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A team from the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley and staff from Lt. Governor Newsom’s office created the first ever report card as a pilot project.

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San Jose invites citizen input on prioritizing city services
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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From street repairs, fire and police department staffing and response times, funding for community centers, public library hours, as well as potential bond or tax measures that could increase resources needed for critical services—topics, for residents to rank, are plenty.

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Minding your money (and improving our government) in 2014
 150 150 Jim Mayer
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One more holiday tradition has come and gone: The pundits have declared the important stories of 2013 and prognosticated on what to watch in 2014. But don’t be dulled by tradition.

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Californians sound off on CAFwd Facebook on what California needs most
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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On Christmas day on our Facebook page we decided to keep the wonk to a minimum and embrace something more light, which is why we asked our Facebook fans what the best gift California could receive from Santa would be.

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Fresno County Supervisor gives surprise pay raise back to county
 150 150 Cheryl Getuiza
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Fresno County Supervisors’ pay checks are tied to Superior Court Judges. So, if a decision is made, in Sacramento, to give those judges a bump in pay, it happens automatically for those on the local county level.

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Fixing DC: California’s innovations can help
 150 150 Lenny Mendonca and Thomas V. McKernan
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With strong citizen engagement, civic leadership and belief in the possibility of change, these reforms can shift partisan politics throughout the nation as well. Good governance matters, citizens deserve and should demand it.

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