Secretary of State Appoints Alf Brandt to the California Fair Political Practices Commission
Sacramento, CA – Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced on Thursday the appointment of Alf Brand to…
Sacramento, CA – Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced on Thursday the appointment of Alf Brand to…
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By Eric Gelber This is the first of periodic articles (tentatively titled California Capitol Watch) I intend…
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Cities in California – claiming they are already…
(From Press Release) – (Friday), in a ruling in Contra Costa Superior Court, the American Civil Liberties…
In a one-sentence ruling the California Supreme Court denied the efforts by police unions to gut or…
A coalition of media groups led by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed briefing in the…
The issue of WikiLeaks is more than a little ironic at this point. When WikiLeaks emerged on…
On Friday, Governor Brown vetoed SB 249, sponsored by Democratic Senator Ben Hueso, a measure to create…
by Kevin Baker If someone tried to sell you security software that was ten years old, would…
I had to stop blogging using my real name.
The reason: because of certain political comments I had made as a private citizen, my company was harmed by a rejection of likely participation in a government-run program. To prevent future harm, I had to start using a pseudonym.
In the weeks since the Sandy Hook massacre, we have seen a re-engagement of the gun debate. It is an issue area that had been largely ceded since 2000 when Al Gore, running for President, made mistaken inferences from public opinion data and failed to recognize that, while a majority of Americans may support tougher gun control, the group most likely to vote on that basis was heavily against any tougher regulations.
At the same time, I continue to be somewhat awestruck at the lack of basic statistical awareness on the part of opponents of tougher gun laws. A good case in point is Greg Stovall in the local paper, who accuses many of “hypocrisy in the wake of shooting.”
Two years ago this site had a pretty bad reputation for being a tough place in terms of the comment section. People told me they would avoid the comment section altogether, and some people did not even like going to the site because of what they called vitriol.
At the outset here, I will admit I am philosophically opposed to term limits. I believe the public has the right to vote for whomever they choose to vote for. I oppose term limits on Presidents as well, as all it has done is turn the second term into a dead zone.
The events of the last few weeks with the scandal in the British tabloids have focused renewed attention on Fox News. While the phone hacking scandal that has ensnared Mr. Murdoch is salacious, it is the type of story news people live for, particularly since it is happening to Fox News, who has become the voice of the anti-media.
The Court’s 7-2 ruling, that again crossed ideological lines, ruled that the 2005 law violated free speech rights under the First Amendment, with the odd couple of Justice Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas opposing.
According to their report, these allegations concern, in particular, a variety of violations of both Board Policies and Bylaws as well as the State’s Brown Act that regulates and mandates open public meetings.
But that is exactly what has happened to Josh Wolf, a journalism student at UC Berkeley.
Under state law, local governments are reimbursed the cost of fulfilling statutory requirements enacted by the Legislature – so when the state’s budget fails to allow that reimbursement, local governments have argued that they are no longer required to fully notice meetings.