“California is short of water, but it’s flooded with headlines about the drought,” former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said kicking off USC’s Schwarzenegger Institute and the Public Policy Institute ...

It may come as a surprise to many but according to many public documents, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. Before someone goes suggesting this is some sort of public relations spin on ...

Fox&Hounds Daily is a website designed to discuss and explain the confluence of politics and business in California. There are websites specific to California industries and business and numerous ...

As California continues to grapple with pension reform, it’s important to keep the record straight on how the state got into this mess. A major reason was the pension spiking of nearly 20 years ago, ...

Here’s a depressing but documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is breaking bad, and getting worse (twice a month, I update crucial data on ...

Chris Micheli is a Principal with the Sacramento governmental relations firm of Aprea & Micheli, Inc. While California statutes do not provide general canons of statutory construction, readers can ...

In a feat of deft literary juggling, former Sacramento Bee editorial editor Peter Schrag has written a memoir with his father about their escape from Europe during the early years of World War II. The ...

Longtime California Political Consultant and Chief Political Strategist for Ronald Reagan An article by Politico Magazine chief correspondent Glenn Thrush on Monday titled “Clinton Weighs Staff ...

Founder of DERAIL, a grassroots effort against the California high-speed rail Project The State Legislature recently approved on a bipartisan basis, an Audit of the High Speed Rail Authority. The ...

I’ll miss Joel Fox, who died Jan. 10 after a long battle with cancer. But California and its nearly 40 million residents will miss him more. Someone looking at Joel’s resume would instantly peg him as ...

I’ll miss Joel Fox, who died Jan. 10 after a long battle with cancer. But California and its nearly 40 million residents will miss him more. Someone looking at Joel’s resume would instantly peg him as ...

Connecting California Columnist and Editor, Zócalo Public Square, Fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden ...