Get ready for March 3

Californians went to the polls three times last year, most recently to culminate a presidential campaign that was exhausting not just for candidates but for voters. In a few months, we will be called on to vote again, this time to determine the state's fiscal future in an as-yet-unscheduled spring special election featuring at least half a dozen complex ballot measures that leave to voters the decisions that in most states are made by elected representatives.

January 25, 2009