HeyJaredGeorge Skelton
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Skelton: Three ballot measures on housing, medical research but only one no-brainer (opens the original)
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Three state bond measures are on California’s November ballot. You probably haven’t paid much attention to them. So here’s my read on these big-ticket proposals. One is a no-brainer “yes.” It would help middle-class Californians buy a new home by allowing them to borrow most of the down payment. And it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime. That’s Proposition 37. Another housing measure is probably worthwhile, but gives me pause because it accommodates too many interests in order to attract broad polit
Skelton: Wildfire bill flameout sad for California (opens the original)
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It was unprecedented and stunning: California’s governor and top two legislative leaders negotiated a compromise on a big bill — and one house rebelled, refusing to bring it to a vote. Not just any bill, but this year’s biggest in the state Legislature, dealing with catastrophic wildfires, arguably the state’s most perilous problem. The issue: who gets hit the hardest financially when a for-profit utility’s electrical equipment ignites a blaze. The utility’s investors? Its ratepayers? The insure
Skelton: Wildfire bill flameout sad for California (opens the original)
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It was unprecedented and stunning: California’s governor and top two legislative leaders negotiated a compromise on a big bill — and one house rebelled, refusing to bring it to a vote. Not just any bill, but this year’s biggest in the state Legislature, dealing with catastrophic wildfires, arguably the state’s most perilous problem. The issue: who gets hit the hardest financially when a for-profit utility’s electrical equipment ignites a blaze. The utility’s investors? Its ratepayers? The insure
Skelton: California’s fight against Trump’s unhinged war on voting by mail (opens the original)
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California could have some zany theater this fall: county prosecutors charging federal postmasters with felonies for obeying President Donald Trump’s order to withhold delivery of mail ballots to voters. Does Trump then federalize the California National Guard to protect his postmasters from local sheriffs bent on hauling them off to the jailhouse? Just wondering after reading legislation whipping through the state Capitol. None of it seems likely to happen, but with this unhinged president and
Skelton: Two good ideas from California Republicans dead on arrival in state’s Democratic Legislature (opens the original)
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Memo to Democrats and independents: Just because an idea emanates from a Republican, doesn’t mean it necessarily stinks. Here are two examples. Legislators wearing red jerseys have proposed to: Both ideas, of course, were dead on arrival when introduced in the Democratic-dominated state Legislature, which is about to wrap up a two-year session. But both make good government sense and promote democracy, which the Democratic Party claims it’s fighting for against the President Trump-led GOP. The s
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