The Debate Over Proposition 71
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As technologically advanced as our country is today, it&#39;s both frustrating and heartbreaking that millions of Americans of all ages and across all social, cultural and ethnic groups are still battling life-threatening and debilitating diseases.
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By Melanie Cleveland, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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It's time to get down to business for stem-cell scientists and administrators after the tremendous boost they received from the passage of California's Proposition 71. Two advisory board appointments have been made; there are 25 to go. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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During the nineties, our state saw an increase in population, due to "The Californians" (who we like to bitch about) migrating to our low tax/low smog state.  Though most of us natives like to bitch about their supposedly shallow, urban sprawl, rude soccer mom, cell phone, and shopping mall ways, they have done something useful and actually turned us backwards hillbilly, gun toting, Republican loving rednecks into a swing state. Now we have to deal with traffic on I-25 being snarled for hours whenever Dick Cheney decides to send his motorcade through rush hour.  The most important issue on the ballot in our state is Amendment 36, which would change our electoral voting from "winner takes all" to a proportional voting system.
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Sacramento -- The last time Californians saw the issue of gambling on a ballot, the question was whether to allow big-time casinos on Indian land.
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THE RACE: The Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in California
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Passage of the $3 billion stem cell research initiative, Proposition 71, could help California repeat one of the most celebrated chapters in its business history if one of its most eminent supporters is right.
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How many people does it take to change a light bulb? In California, the answer could be a majority of the Legislature.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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By Janet Elliott and Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 3--AUSTIN -- Acting on an issue that is stirring controversy in the Legislature, Gov.
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I spent much of this afternoon in a mandatory (for poll workers) four hour training class on the Hart InterCivic eSlate voting system, soon to be in use in elections in my home county. (Hart InterCivic is a privately held firm out of Houston, specializing in election equipment and in software products for county records offices). Contrary to my previous impression, the machines are not touch screen machines, although they share some similarities.  I went into the class skeptical; I have been a critic of what I percieve as an unseemly rush to adopt insecure electronic voting systems. I emerged guardedly optimistic; the systems appear, from what I can tell, to be reasonably secure against vote manipulation by people who are not part of the election staff, and they appear to provide approximately the same level of security against election office malfeasance that paper ballots do. At the end of the day, if the election staff wants to tamper, they can; but that was true with paper ballots as well. That risk can be mitigated by election office procedures intended to mitigate it; in San Mateo County's case, those procedures have in some important regards not yet been established, as I will discuss below.
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By David Pollak, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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Berkeley needs a comprehensive and effective sunshine ordinance to promote openness in government and participation of all members of the public.   Many other Bay Area cities, including San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond, already have such legislation on the books.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to reform redistricting takes on the red-blue divide.
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A bill to raise California&#39;s minimum wage to $7.75 an hour over the next two years is headed to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, providing a major test of his pledge to reject