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Until the 2018 election, elections for City Council seats were city-wide. In 2019, in response to a California Voting Rights Act lawsui...

The following are of course just my opinions, informed by various biased information sources (all sources are biased, including yours) Pr...

The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. What do you think? A man h...

Can you believe there are seventeen of these? That's as many as republicans who ran for president this year. Herewith my summary an...

In a recent Harper’s , Marilynne Robinson remarked that whereas our society used to have citizens (who may have a sense of identity bas...

<rant> OK, it's not the problem, but it is a big one. The short version is that the political establishment, I mean both demo...

The state ballot pamphlet came the other day, and here's my whack at November's propositions. Temporary taxes to fund education…...

Mitt isn't quite as much of a liar as Newt—at least this time around. This is an amazing fact: Fox News— Fox News! —says Romney'...

I recently read this op-ed pointing out that Cargill/DMB have bought and paid for the consultants writing 15 of 17 sections of the envir...

Newt, you say that a 30% income tax rate on the highest earning Americans would destroy jobs. I have three questions for you. We now kno...

My buddy Todd posted this the other day, with this note on facebook: Imagine what might be possible if we had a Rosetta Stone to help u...

Since I'm never gonna run for political office and will never be considered for supreme court justice or anything, I figure that how ...

My opinion only: this is not necessarily anyone else's position, and is certainly no official statement. In my elementary-school days...

Just saw this article on Boxer vs Fiorina for this fall's US Senate race: Boxer tries to highlight differences on abortion By JUDY...

The Saltworks folks posted an article saying Rosanne Foust, SAMCEDA interim CEO and Redwood City Council member, had no conflict of in...

There's a lot of confusion lately regarding what Proposition 16 is about. This is understandable, given that PG&E have spent upw...

The "bad guys" in this case being PG&E. The Mercury News summarize the bill with this headline: " Prop. 16 is PG&...

This time it's PG&E, saying you should vote yes on 16. They call it the "Taxpayers Right to Vote Act" but the attorney...

There are plenty of reasons to dislike software patents: they stifle creativity rather than enhance it, they're used by rich companie...

The oldest reference I can find (easily) to this essay is: http://newappeal.blogspot.com/2009/08/government-cant-do-anything-right.html ; ...