SACRAMENTO — Several years ago, after she’d been elected state Assembly speaker, I asked Karen Bass about her views on the water supply — specifically from the troubled Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. She was honest in her ignorance. “I’m strictly a city […]
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SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he appealed to voters’ better angels, not their worst natures. He
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SACRAMENTO — Atop my Christmas wish list is free tuition for all California undergrads at public universities. We had that for generations before shortsighted politicians took it away. No, I’m not advocating a free college education. Tuition accounts for only a
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SACRAMENTO — Kamala Harris could make history as the first woman and person of color to be elected California governor. But she’d need to really want the job. She couldn’t see it as merely a consolation prize after losing the presidential
SACRAMENTO — Running for president, Ronald Reagan repeatedly promised to “make America great again.” Thirty-six years later, Donald Trump grabbed the line and became the great plagiarizer. “Reagan was the original MAGA. No question. Trump swiped the line from Reagan,” political
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SACRAMENTO — Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had to win, it’s good that he prevailed in both the archaic electoral
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SACRAMENTO — The state Legislature will convene a new two-year session on Dec. 2, and hopefully lawmakers have been reading the messages California voters sent them on election day. The messages were straightforward and concise, although many elected officials who inhabit
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SACRAMENTO — How did we allow a convicted felon, compulsive liar, adjudicated sexual abuser and wannabe dictator to be elected our nation’s president? Three words: Democrats botched it. It shouldn’t have been even close, running against a man with his disqualifications.
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SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom got a huge political boost when Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s presidential election. Newsom now has a direct path to the White House in 2028. With Harris — his fellow Californian and longtime Democratic
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SACRAMENTO — Here’s my take on the painful 2024 presidential race. And I’ll keep it simple. OK, call it simplistic. This absurd election season does lend itself to simple-minded thinking. Mainly, what I don’t fully fathom is why any American could
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