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Kamala Harris Calls for ‘Mental Health Justice’

December 1, 2019 10:03 amDecember 2, 2019 2:58 pm

“Our country is in a mental health crisis,” proclaims California Sen. Kamala Harris, and “over 45 million adults – nearly 20 percent of all U.S. adults – experience mental illness in 2017.” In 25 states, Harris explains, the suicide rate...

Newsom and the Nineties

November 16, 2019 2:42 amNovember 18, 2019 8:10 am

“America in 2019 is California in the 1990s,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently told Politico. “The xenophobia, the nativism, the fear of ‘the other.’ Scapegoating. Talking down or past people. The hysteria. And so, we’re not going to put up with that....

Sacramento Mayor Steinberg Deploys Budget Bludgeon

June 1, 2019 10:45 amJune 1, 2019 10:51 am

“Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is being accused of playing Chicago-style politics,” writes Theresa Clift in the Sacramento Bee, “seeking retribution against two critics on the City Council by ignoring their districts in a $16 million spending proposal.” According to the...