
Periodic posts about California politics and policy, my next book, and the occasional scoop.
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Voters should take issue with Xavier Becerra’s campaign for governor. All but guaranteed of victory over his Republican opponent Steve Hilton, Becerra is taking few stands, issuing no white papers, and making no grand pronouncements.
That...
Listeners to a discussion focused on behavioral health in Sacramento last week might have missed the big news if they weren’t dialed into one important and complex facet of our mental illness crisis. I moderated the panel at the invitation...
Photographs in simple black frames lined the walls of the editorial board meeting room on the third floor of the old Sacramento Bee building. There were maybe two dozen photos, all of them portraits, and they told a story of endurance and v...
In the park on the south side of California’s Capitol Park, a small plaque names a huge redwood for Byron Sher, appropriate given that as a state senator, he led the fight in Sacramento to protect the last large untouched privately owned re...
Between stops in the early presidential primary state of Nevada and the source of campaign money that is Los Angeles, Rahm Emanuel made a quick visit to the California Community Colleges’ Futures Summit in Santa Clara on Sept. 9 to talk abo...
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My book about the history and politics of our mental health system due in April 2027. Author of “Kamala’s Way, An American Life.” Worked at the LA Times, LA Her-Ex, SacBee and CalMatters.
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