Governance Reform

Results are in: Surveyed Californians eager for a Path Toward Trust
 150 150 Christopher Nelson
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California Forward will often ask folks what they think on certain issues, but never have we gotten such an overwhelming response, however, than when we sent a simple survey asking people to give us feedback on our Path Toward Trust

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California ballot initiatives — keep them but fix them
 150 150 John Guenther
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California Forward, the League of Women of Voters of California and dozens of others civic groups have been meeting over the past year sharing opinions and ideas for changes in the initiative process.

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CA Fwd comments on today’s ethics legislation
 150 150 John Guenther
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We are committed to working with the Legislature to make sure these reforms can make a real difference.

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California Forward’s written testimony on the Rainy Day Fund
 150 150 Jim Mayer
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Much of California’s recent fiscal instability has been aggravated by short-term decisions that led to boom-and-bust budgeting.

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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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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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Initiative process scrutinized in PPIC roundtable
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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PPIC’s Reforming California’s Initiative Process event, held Thursday afternoon in Sacramento, was an analysis of California’s popular but flawed process of direct democracy

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California Economic Summit inches closer
 150 150 Justin Ewers
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A little over a month before the California Economic Summit on November 7-8 in Los Angeles, the final updates to the Signature Initiatives identified at the 2012 Summit have been added to the Summit’s Progress Tracker.

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Californians offer their critiques of the most recent Legislative session
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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While we judge the progress of the Legislature based on how effective they were at creating more middle class jobs and promoting cost-effective public services, we wanted to know what regular Californians like you thought

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