Archive for March, 2008
The clock is ticking. California’s “Mr. Universe” Governor may have a few years left in office.. but he is starting to worry about his legacy. Various groups are hearing from his office about long forgotten initiatives that he may take up to help build a portfolio for historians. Expect some modest yet surprising policy initiatives over the [...]
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ARNOLD’S TIMING
In politics timing is everything. Today it wasn’t on the side of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger—and he knew it. The Governor appointed a panel three years ago to provide him recommendations on ways to better serve the 6.3 million students in California’s public schools. This morning the group unveiled their suggestions with Governor Schwarzenegger present in [...]
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You might call it the downside to winning election as California’s chief executive. Advancing to one of the highest profile political positions in the nation requires you to move to Sacramento.
I once lived there for a summer and attended college nearby at the University of California at Davis. I know the area. It is flat.. cold [...]
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First some full disclosure. My wife homeschooled my son for five years. He had attended private school from kindergarten through 4th grade. Over time it became clear that we could do a better job. My wife, who had left her job working for the County of Riverside’s Office on Aging, has a bachelors degree and a Masters in Social Welfare [...]
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BUDGET POLITICS
The system in which the state raises and spends money is broken. Most of the time we get buy but then every four or five years there is a downturn in the economy and the state gets slammed. Because there is no fiscal discipline in the system or with the politicians who work within it the crisis [...]
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TUESDAY’S OTHER WINNER
The Mayor of Los Angeles had a somber look Wednesday morning at the Universal Hilton Hotel. At least at the start. He appeared before a group of police chiefs from around the world to talk about cross-border cooperation in fighting deadly street gangs. The dramatic up-tick in gang shootings in Los Angeles over the past two weeks added to the [...]
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WHEN WILL THE ARROGANCE STOP?
Forget “son of super-Tuesday”.. try ”daughter of New Hampshire.”
This could all change by the morning. But at the moment it looks like Hillary Clinton may take three out of four and both of the big states. Of course there will be plenty who will point out that, because the DNC doesn’t believe in “winner-take-all”, she [...]
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This is a feminist state. The two US Senators are women. A majority of the Democratic members of the House of Representatives are women. The first female Speaker of the House is from here. Even the wife of the Republican Governor changed the title of the state’s history museum into the “California museum of history.. [...]
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Lets see:
- Huge crowds? Check.
-Lots of new voters enthused by the candidate? Check.
-Candidate who pledges to give the “special interests” the boot? Check.
-Candidate who claims to be an “outsider”? Check.
-Candidate who says he will .. on the first day of office.. change an unpopular policy taken by an equally unpopular incumbent? Check.
-A “historic” campaign capturing [...]
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