Uneasy Rhetoric

It’s not much of a secret that I opposed Proposition 8, and of course, I applauded the judge’s decision today to overturn it. But, I have to hand it to proponents of the measure. Their strategy may have been less about the law and more about a well thought-out public relations strategy. They had to [...]

It’s been out for a week, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that the California Budget Project released the latest edition of Locked Out (pdf), a report that looks at housing in California. Much of the news in it isn’t new, but it is useful to know the numbers behind some of the [...]

A cool breeze and temperatures down into the frigid mid-80s have probably made last week’s heat wave a distant memory for many. But according an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, we can expect a lot more heat waves in the near (not in the far, oh so distant) future. According to the article, by [...]

If you’re a policy wonk like me, you’re constantly on the lookout for juicy studies, briefs, and toilet paper. A couple of people at UC Berkeley have taken it upon themselves to compile “a quick and easy update on what’s new in California public policy research.” The California Policy Inbox aggregates research from several dozen [...]

If there is one thing that is changing faster than the global climate, it is the rate at which scientists (and by “scientists” I am most definitely not including economists) and even nonscientists are abandoning the stance that global warming may not be at least a partial byproduct of human activity. In today’s Bee, Dan [...]