Even if the efforts don’t achieve enactment today, the effort can be an investment in future success. See the Lancet editorial in item C below: What’s government for, anyway? County fiscal 2021 budget hearings are to begin May 13. Now is a good time to contact the Supervisors with you...
Fast forward a few conversations later and I had agreed to have my name on the delegate election ballot since they were a delegate and two alternates short. We didn’t have speeches or bios, only our house staff pictures. I was stuck grossing during elections and didn’t even get to vote...
I received my Official Sample Ballot and Voter Information Pamphlet many weeks in advance. It was a lot to read (88 pages!) and make sense of. I noted the date and place to vote, and then as the weeks went by, paid more attention to campaigning than I usually did. Election Day came...
In recent weeks, Police Chief Joseph Santoro said, officers in Arcadia, El Monte, Inglewood and Pomona have been shot at while on duty. In the San Gabriel Valley, only Monrovia, Pasadena and Sierra Madre do not provide ballistic vests for their police officers, he said. The council agreed ...
circulating another ballot initiative petition to prevent private management of the Huntington Beach public libraries. Decisions about our treasured libraries should not be made by four city council members. Time for the voters to have an opportunity to vote on library issues. Our...
In the final analysis, the financial reports required to be filed by all candidates indicated the incumbent spent around one hundred and twenty-five dollars per ballot cast in favor of him to wage his campaign against me, while I didn’t spend a dime. ...
Like many supporters of medicinal marijuana, Peron hopes that its approval as a legal drug would be the first step in legalizing the plant for all uses. In 1991, he sponsored an advisory measure on the San Francisco ballot calling for its legalization as a medicine. The proposition passed wi...