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1 min read 2020-12-17 21:02:37

Black Bart Winners for 2020—The Crisis and the Chief Responder

Covid-19 pockmarked California’s political landscape like no politician or ballot measure ever could. It ended or damaged lives, put a dagger into

1 min read 2020-12-17 21:01:15

Norm King served as city manager in three Southern California cities and is the former executive director of the San Bernardino Transportation

1 min read 2020-12-17 21:00:08

Santa, California children need more this Christmas than you can fit in the sleigh. But could you at least give every Californian under 18 their very

1 min read 2020-12-16 21:03:47

In attempting to decide what action or actor on the California political scene had the greatest effect on the state’s policy and politics,

1 min read 2020-12-16 21:02:04

It’s a difficult year to pick a Black Bart, at least among the living in California. Gov. Gavin Newsom made a good start against homelessness and

1 min read 2020-12-16 21:01:47

(Latest in a series since March on the pandemic’s employment impacts, and rebuilding America’s job base. The previous ones are here.) As the

1 min read 2020-12-15 21:04:01

Granted, Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot on his plate now, but hasn’t he noticed the flow of business leaving California is turning into a tidal wave?

1 min read 2020-12-15 21:03:09

Gov. Gavin Newsom has governance problems. He’s struggled with finding a consistent response that local officials will follow. He’s failed to fix

1 min read 2020-12-15 21:02:47

The 2020 election year has been a roll call of voting disasters. The Iowa caucus. The New York primary. High-visibility legal battles in Wisconsin,

1 min read 2020-12-15 21:01:40

I thought I might nominate Donald J. Trump for this year’s Black Bart Award. But it’s time to retire our lame-duck President’s number. Instead,

1 min read 2020-12-14 21:03:27

Gov. Gavin Newsom best not plan to appoint a new attorney general too quickly because there is a very distinct possibility that current Attorney

1 min read 2020-12-14 21:02:12

For the past eleven years frequent contributors to this page Joe Mathews, John Wildermuth and I have nominated candidates for Californian of the Year

1 min read 2020-12-14 21:01:45

Clausewitz famously said war was “politics by other means.” In California, politics is water wars by other means. Although it isn’t always

1 min read 2020-12-14 21:00:29

California’s AG resisted any temptation to join those of 18 sister states led by the Texas AG seeking to have the Supreme Court overturn

1 min read 2020-12-11 21:03:57

California voters pulled the teeth out of Assembly Bill 5, the labor classification legislation that outlawed gig work, when they approved