Michael Loebs – California Globe

What Recall Candidates Say About COVID’s Personal Impacts, and Impacts to the State

September 12, 2021 2:34 amSeptember 12, 2021 10:52 am

It has been the driving force around the world for 18 months. It has killed millions of people, sickened tens of millions more, devastated economies, obliterated education, and sown fear and distrust on a monumental scale throughout the world. It...

What the Recall Candidates are Saying About Homelessness

September 5, 2021 1:07 pmSeptember 6, 2021 11:53 am

It is heart-wrenching and mind-boggling. It is self-harm and societal-harm. It is exasperating and infuriating. It is depressing and destructive. It is sympathy and dystopia. It is empathy and myopia. It is the homeless problem in California. With an estimated...

What the Recall Candidates are Saying About Infrastructure

August 30, 2021 2:31 amSeptember 1, 2021 11:41 am

There is a saying in California politics (popularized by Willie Brown) that, when it comes to big projects, one should just “start digging a hole and make it so big, there’s no alternative to coming up with the money to...

What the Recall Candidates Are Saying About the California Dream

August 16, 2021 7:15 amAugust 18, 2021 10:29 am

Over the past 40 years, at least, the topic of illegal immigration has played a central role in California politics. But now the topic of legal out-migration is rearing its depressing head. Despite attempts by many to either dismiss the...

What are the Recall Candidates Saying About the State of California Public Education?

August 9, 2021 2:20 amAugust 12, 2021 2:21 pm

Even before the pandemic, California’s public schools were not something to write home about. But what COVID, and the related mandates and closures and distance learning and union intransigence did to it, seems to have obliterated whatever shred of credibility...

What the Recall Candidates are Saying About the State’s Most Dysfunctional Agency

August 2, 2021 5:05 pmAugust 2, 2021 4:19 pm

One of the hot button issues of the entire recall effort has been California’s Employment Development Department’s disastrous handling of the massive unemployment increase, a result of the pandemic and its concomitant state-ordered business lockdowns. The mishandling – which managed...