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Brown’s Naiveté in Assuming Fair PUC

June 19, 2018

June 19, 2018

By Tom Elias, Mirror Columnist| Gov. Jerry Brown has made this year something like a farewell tour, traveling the world as...

Waiting for Real Proposition 13 Change

June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018

By Tom Elias, Mirror Columnist| No law is more important to lifestyles in California than Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 law...

Housing Answer Must Help Many

May 3, 2018

May 3, 2018

By TOM ELIAS| Scott Wiener, the ultra-liberal Democratic state senator from San Francisco appeared surprised the other day to learn...

Will Selfish Propositions Crowd This Year’s Ballot?

January 8, 2018

January 8, 2018

By Tom Elias   If supporters of several proposed initiatives now in the process of gathering signatures get their way,...

Partisan Schisms The Result Of One-Party Rule

November 13, 2017

November 13, 2017

By Tom Elias   Some of the 25 surviving Republicans in the state Assembly – a politically endangered species in...

Will Next Governor End State Corruption?

October 16, 2017

October 16, 2017

By Tom Elias   The well-documented corruption in various wings of California state government shows few signs of abating soon....

All-Renewable Power: Reachable Goal For State

October 12, 2017

October 12, 2017

By Tom Elias               Back in 2002, when California set its first statewide renewable...

Key Amendment Reduced Potential Of Moved-Up Vote

October 9, 2017

October 9, 2017

By Tom Elias               If any of this year’s legislative bills was a no-brainer...

The Dangerous Constitutional Convention Measure

October 5, 2017

October 5, 2017

By Tom Elias             The California ballot has seen plenty of dangerous propositions over the...

State Likely Dodges New Energy Crunch

October 2, 2017

October 2, 2017

By Tom Elias               The only time California ceded control of its power supply...