be rescheduled in July sometime. In the meantime ADA lawsuits are being filed left and right throughout the state. I think it is fair to say that most people in the business community supported SB ...

We completely screwed up California’s election system, and all we got was one lousy independent. After a decade of the miserable election experiment known as the top-two, the election to the state ...

Joel Fox was right in this space when he predicted that legislative Democrats may offer proposals to curb the power of the initiative and referendum process. He was right to say that Democrats may use ...

It appears Los Angeles taxpayers will continue paying for their health care and someone else’s—that of city workers. The Los Angeles Times reported right before the Thanksgiving holiday that, “Mayor ...

In recent times, the Legislature has passed several bills to deal with the state’s vexing housing problem – to no avail. The California Department of Housing (HCD) is simply a toothless advocate so ...

London Breed breezed through her re-election at the beginning of the month, taking almost 70% of the vote in San Francisco’s mayoral race. But in winning, she might have also lost. No big-city mayor ...

Fourteen years ago, California set up a new method for enforcing its complex wage and hour laws. The legislation, called the Private Attorneys General Act, or PAGA, allows private attorneys to sue ...

California seems to be running two elections, the one that concludes Election Day when the television ads and mailers finally stop and initial results are announced, and the second election with final ...

If only all workers enjoyed a form of the “California Rule”—that is that a worker’s retirement rights or even work positions or salaries remain in place despite changing financial circumstances ...

When I served as co-president of the Glboal Forum on Modern Direct Democracy in Rome earlier this fall, I was impressed by ideas from all over the world. But none more so than Gianluca Sgueo, a ...

Finally, Election Day has come and the deluge of mailings and television commercials will end. These fine-tuned messages, crafted in hopes of manipulating voters, in a strange way, reminded me of the ...