California unions whose members depend on the state budget for their salaries celebrated last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation aimed at plugging corporate tax loopholes.
“Giant, highly profitable,
Close the doors and batten the hatches, because El Niño isn’t the only tempest on the horizon. Senate Bill 79 (SB 79) and its threat of upzoned neighborhoods is
As a longtime resident and your City Councilman, I'm writing to urge you to
support Measure ES on the upcoming November 3rd ballot. Measure ES is the only
California’s Nov. 3 ballot contains 14 statewide ballot measures and five of them pertain to taxes, including the much-debated Proposition 40, which would tax the wealth of the
Nearly a half-century ago, while addressing a group of high school students, Jerry Brown enunciated his canoe theory of governance.
“The way you have to approach the political process
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously observed that the highest court in the land is rarely moved by the weather of the day, but it is inevitably shaped by
As Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Councilmember Nithya Raman vie to become the next mayor of California’s largest city, they are sparring over the wrong issues regarding public
To the Santa Monica City Council
On September 8, 2026, the majority of the City Council voted to move forward with Option 1: the immediate, unmodified implementation of SB 79&
Since the earliest years of its history, California has been a political battlefield over divvying up the state’s water. The intensity of the multisided conflict, like water itself, ebbs
Whether we agree politically, or whether we couldn’t disagree more — your vote is your sacred responsibility and right.
Recently, President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security claimed to
California politicians — Gov. Gavin Newsom in particular — are fond of portraying their state as an economic powerhouse of global stature.
“We dominate in every category,” Newsom bragged earlier this year,
On 12 April 2016, 3,806 days ago, the Pico Neighborhood Association brought suit against the City of Santa Monica for unfair elections. They sought to change the election of
