Who’s Afraid of Proposition 13?
California cannot continue to engage in battles each budget season. Because it could not find a supermajority to raise taxes, the state had to cut or reduce many of the…
Thoughts on the Budget Process
Over the last 10 years, I have been involved in the City's budget process, first as the organizing director of Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, then as staff for…
Newsom Dumps Jaye?
What is clear, Eric Jaye’s campaign style is soooo 2007 and Newsom, who is behind Jerry Brown in the polls, has not been able to raise much in the way…
New Rule: Not Everything in America
Has to Make a Profit
Bill Maher By Bill Maher July 26, 2009 How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there…
Court Jester’s Class of 2000
h. brown Photos by Luke Thomas By Harold Brown July 25, 2009 D-2’s Gavin Newsom Presently the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco and a leading candidate…
Healthcare 101
Health care crisis as depicted by pirates. By Jill Chapin July 23, 2009 Healthcare reform really isn’t as complicated as we are led to believe, but that is exactly what…
Iranian You
Leila Radan By Leila Radan July 22, 2009 I am part Iranian, part Danish. Mention of my Iranian blood stops people in their tracks these days. It used to be…