The following was a three part series on the impact of the California Environmental Quality Act on development in California and ways to potentially improve the law. It is written in response to hearings conducted over the past three months...
The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday against using affirmative action in the college admissions process. California passed its own Civil Rights Initiative, Proposition 209, in 1996, passed by voters 55% to 45%, which said that the...
Yesterday, a big newspaper ran a “think piece” about why the public doesn’t trust the media anymore. The day before, there was an “op-ed” on the subject. Last week, there was a 2,000-word analysis of the issue. In fact, over...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta just released the Hate Crime in California report Tuesday, prepared by the state Department of Justice. In early May the Globe reported on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s official launch of CA vs Hate, “a new...
Jargon has its place – quite often an important place. At sea, there is a reason for words like port and starboard, lines and yards, and fore and aft. Every communication must be specific, correct, and not open to misinterpretation....
UPDATE below The Globe receives unpleasant emails occasionally from people objecting to our coverage of state politics for myriad reasons. We received an email this week from someone displeased with our recent reporting. “Mike Lunsford” emailed me with some pretty...
A new law designed to stop price gouging by oil companies went into effect Monday, only three months after Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 2 into law. For years, Governor Newsom and other legislators have targeted oil companies for...