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Growing chorus calling for special elections reform in California
 150 150 Christopher Nelson
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There’s a growing chorus of elections officials, voter advocates and lawmakers questioning the way California fills mid-term vacancies in the state legislature. They often carry a price tag of over $1 million in tax dollars and uniformly see less than 30 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.

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Year of the Summit: A look ahead
 150 150 John Guenther and Justin Ewers
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Taking inventory of Summit success and future

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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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The California economy and the triple bottom line
 150 150 Justin Ewers
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A new Summit report released this week, Advancing the Triple Bottom Line for All California, offers a first glimpse of how leaders from the state’s urban coasts to its rural interior will use a basic economic principle to bolster regional economies

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Year in Review: Voting and elections
 150 150 Matthew Grant Anson
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Continuing with our review of the past year, we sat one-on-one with Caroline Vance Bruister of CAFwd’s Partnership for Public Accountability.

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