Proposition 35, the Medi-Cal funding measure on the Nov. 5 ballot, presents another example of special-interest, ballot-box budgeting that limits the discretion of lawmakers and reduces flexibility to respond to …
California voters will be asked this fall to expand rent control with a statewide ballot measure similar to ones they wisely rejected in 2018 and 2020. Supply-and-demand economic principles today are …
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 …
Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. Three members of the Alameda County Board of Education face ill-prepared challengers in the March 5 election. None of those …
Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. After 24 years on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, Federal Glover will step down at the end of …
Click here for a complete list of our election recommendations. San Jose is recovering from the pandemic better than many other urban areas. Nevertheless, the city’s population has declined, office …
By Daniel Dale and Kate Sullivan | CNN Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed on Monday that he didn’t endorse Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the primary Republican negotiator of …
Over the past half century, the East Bay’s liberal state Senate district centering around Berkeley and Oakland has been represented by some of California’s leading legislators: Nick Petris, Barbara Lee, …
Martinez is among a small minority of California municipalities where voters still elect the city clerk. It makes little sense. The job is largely ceremonial, administering oaths of office and …
No other city in California except Santa Clara still has an elected police chief. Less than 20% of the municipalities in the state have an elected city clerk. It’s time …