Another primary has past and as we anticipate the coming elections in November, we can take a moment to put aside the partisan attacks to revel in the moment that is democracy. Whether you voted by mailing in your ballot or actually stood inside the ballot box yesterday, your vote counts. While CALIFORNIA [...]

After two years of campaigning, the 2010 primary election is less than one month away. At this stage in the candidate’s campaign, the ads start running, mail is sent, phone calls are made, and candidates walk their precincts to meet their constituents.
As the primary election has unfolded this season, I keep hoping the Democrats become [...]

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”
John of Salisbury; Metalogicon
The [...]

As the election season intensifies, so do the political machinations. Sometimes politics can be so deceiving and malicious that we get angry and lose sight of how important it is to elect individuals who will govern.
This year is especially important. California has serious budget difficulties. While traveling this past week, someone asked me if California [...]

As the end of the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, I find myself anxious to leave behind an era that has been dubbed “The Big Zero.” From health care to reproductive rights to equal pay, women’s rights were under assault. We see the writing on the wall that girls, like [...]