Californians vote on many ballot measures, but rarely participate in significant public discussions about the measures’ contents and impacts. This isn’t just about apathy. Rather, it’s an example of “rational …
Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated the passage of Prop. 1 at a Downtown L.A. press conference on Tuesday, March 21, after tense weeks during which his $6.4 billion mental-health bond measure …
Opponents and proponents of Governor Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 1 mental health bond measure are seeking to correct rejected ballots from the March 5 primary — usually rejected due to a …
Governor Gavin Newsom’s mental health bond measure Proposition 1 continues to hang on to its narrow lead, prompting leaders of the opposition movement to concede likely defeat on Tuesday. The …
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $6.4 billion mental health bond measure held on to its very narrow lead on March 7, but final results were still too close to call in the …
Piedmont’s Measure F would increase the parcel tax property owners pay for city services by at least 20%. But nowhere in the official ballot materials for Measure F do city …
For nine years, I begged Alameda County agencies to give my intermittently homeless and schizophrenic ward the care she needed to stay alive and well. Last September, some 12 years …
After California became a state in 1850, one of its first acts was to establish the Insane Asylum of California in Stockton, the first of 12 state hospitals meant to care …
We are the people who live with serious mental illness. We are clients and providers in California’s public mental health system. We are voting “no” on Proposition 1, the mental health …
Our group of former members of the Alameda County Civil Grand Jury has devised a rating system to help voters recognize the deceptions in local measures on the March 5 …