This week I got an interesting email from New York with a link to the Sacramento Bee article describing the fact that the Davis High Junior Homecoming court was comprised actually of two princes--as t ...

There is a thin line with paid canvassers between aggressive salesmanship and outright browbeating. Actually, I would have to say it is really not that thin a line at all. I remember more than 10 year ...

Guest Commentary by Bill RitterFollowing the 2000 presidential election in which Al Gore received more than 500,000 votes nationwide than George W. Bush there were calls to abandon the Electoral Colle ...

In 1996, California voted to support Proposition 209, a measure that would end state mandated Affirmative Action programs.In July of 2006, nearly ten years after Proposition 209, the UC Board of Regen ...

In 2000, Californians weary of the ever-rising cost of campaigns and perceived influence of big money passed Proposition 34 which seemed to be a constitutional answer to the problem of campaign spendi ...

Watching the recent events in Woodland unfold was a reminder both of how far we have come and how far we still have to go in this society in terms of attitudes toward gay people. I am not naive enough ...

Let me make this clear--the Term Limits law passed in California is one of the worst initiatives that California voters have passed with the most unintended consequences since Proposition 13. For thos ...

NG Blog covered the on-going Fischer story today. On his blog he posted a video from the CurrentTV network. It created by a couple of teens describing incidents of anti-gay harassment against them in ...

Yolo County has generally been a reliably Democratic County. In 2004, Kerry received 59% of the vote in Yolo County to Bush’s 39 percent of the vote. In fact, Yolo in 2000 was one of only six Californ ...

After some technological struggles, I have managed to clip the testimony of Guy Fischer from the November 12, 2006 Davis Joint Unified School District board meeting. This is a 12 minute video clip.CBS ...