If so, I’m fine with it. As a lifelong Californian, I’m acutely aware that my common-sense and compassionate life lessons could be viewed as wacko left-wing brainwashing by many.
The governor pushed an exemption that would undermine California's revolutionary law to phase out single-use packaging that's not being recycled or composted. It's not too late to get it back on track.
We volunteered to count the unsheltered people in our community. Our conversations with those who agreed to talk touched our hearts and demonstrated why homelessness is so difficult to solve.
The state is overreliant on wealthy taxpayers as it is. If even if a fraction of this group is motivated to move, the consequences for the state's financial health will be enormous.
But it is unlikely — and certainly no reason to dump a system that, if replicated in all states, would mean no member of Congress would ever have to tremble in fear of being "primaried" by vengeful president.
But the recent decision is unlikely to be the last word on the state's gun regulation because the 9th Circuit’s decision misreads Supreme Court precedent, misinterprets history and ignores the strong public safety interest.
If local, state and federal leaders have learned anything in the year after the Eaton and Palisades fires, they haven’t done a very good job showing it.
The long implementation period belies the urgency of the crisis. By the time California's ban on dangerous ultra-processed takes full effect, today's school kids may have school-aged kids of their own.
Gain power, give it away
In the Sacramento Bee, Robin Epley has perhaps the most triumphalist of the immediate post-Prop. 50 commentaries I could find, but I wouldn’t