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It's still too close to call, but the ballot initiative to reform legislative redistricting is looking like a probable winner.
He finally said it. I saw him. Heard his words.
Please permit me some brief reveling in nostalgia and history. Then we'll move on to other things.
There's a small, innocuous bond proposal at the tail end of Tuesday's state ballot that could get trampled if voters are in a knee-jerk, no-spending mood. And that would be a shame.
The only argument of substance being raised against Proposition 11 is that taking legislative redistricting away from self-serving legislators would hurt minority communities. But now a nonpartisan think tank debunks that notion.
It would place California on the cutting edge of transportation in America. It would be a job creator. Environmentally clean. And fun.
Two energy propositions on the Nov. 4 ballot illustrate the pitfalls of trying to write state laws by "citizen" initiative.
The odd duck on the Nov. 4 California ballot is the measure calling for chicken rights.
There they go again -- the governor and Legislature, standing by gawking as the state begins to roll off a cliff.
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer couldn't stand it anymore -- that Republican mantra: "We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem." So the Democrat did some calculating.