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@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialWhy are L.A. County voters deciding how to negotiate firefighter and other first responder salaries on Nov. 3? The reason relates to a strike 50 years ago.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialDan Morain spent time with Xavier Becerra's parents for a Sacramento Bee column he wrote in 2015. Steve Hilton's notion, Morain says, that Becerra is lying about his father being an immigrant "is itself a lie. Becerra’s story has not changed."
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialBernie Sanders gave plenty of good reasons to fight oligarchy at a rally in L.A. Monday night. But do those reasons justify passing Proposition 40, a billionaire wealth tax with glaring flaws?
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialAngelenos already voted for a county Ethics Commission and funding for alternatives to incarceration. But significant drafting and filing blunders could undo those ballot measures without Measure E's clean-up crew.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialTucked inside L.A. city Measure EE is a provision slashing the number of required weekly council meetings from three to one, reducing the opportunities for the public to address their elected representatives.
@marielgarza.bsky.socialReposted by @goldenstateorg.bsky.socialJon Healey, my excellent former editor and colleague at the LA Times editorial board, came out of retirement to write the smartest critique of Proposition 40, the billionaire tax, I have yet to read. www.golden-state.org/smart-way-to...
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialCalifornia billionaires can certainly afford to pay more in taxes. But Proposition 40's one-time wealth tax is so deeply flawed that it makes you wonder about the true intention of its sponsors, writes Jon Healey.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.social"The world is riddled with airport projects in big cities gone wrong.... So perhaps Angelenos can take some comfort in knowing that the long-delayed LAX people mover isn’t the measure of municipal incompetence some are making it out to be."
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialThe death an despair at ICE detention centers in California and the rest of the U.S. is by design. Sandra Hernandez says lawmakers need to do more.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialCEQA is the poster child for good environmental intentions gone bad, but is Prop. 45 the answer? "Much as I’d love to turn the screws on NIMBYs, I’m voting no," writes Paul Thornton.
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@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialThe billionaires fighting Proposition 40 are funding two other measures on the Nov. 3 ballot that could effectively nullify the wealth tax. But they want voters to believe they're protecting the little guy, not their fellow tech titans and venture capitalists.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialEven to his fans, Beck remains something of a mystery. Author @adamhenig.bsky.social reviews the new book by @josie.zone peeling back the curtain on the L.A.-born pop star and his on-again, off-again relationship with Scientology.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialHumans' insatiable desire for convenience, which has already ruined so much, will soon crowd skies with toilet paper and sandwich deliveries. You'll be wishing for the good old days of noisy delivery trucks ambling down your street.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialWhen Dan Morain edited the Sacramento Bee's editorial page, he knew his job was to steward an institutional voice that had endured since 1857. The Bee's current hedge-fund owners see things much differently.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialProposition 38, the immunology bond measure on California's Nov. 3 ballot, could steer more than $4 billion to its backer's own institute, which isn't even open yet. That's just one problem with it.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialIt takes A LOT of work to dig through the text of 14 ballot propositions, get arguments from all sides and provide independent, intellectually honest assessments. Here's how you can help us help Californians see through the election spin.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialProposition 39 is an underhanded attempt to curtail the state's popular mail-in ballot system that the president hates, based on the lie that hordes of undocumented immigrants are regularly casting votes.
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialWhat the ... what?
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialThe notoriously profane Rahm Emanuel has a lot of kind words to say about community colleges. Might that say anything about a possible presidential run?
@goldenstateorg.bsky.socialSacramento Bee columnist Robin Epley was laid off last week, along with every other member of the editorial board. She doesn't know what that means for all the grueling work she and her colleagues had done interviewing candidates for endorsements.
