On Cesar Chavez Day, Rediscover Cesar Chavez
By Randy ShawWhen California in 2000 became the first of eight states to declare March 31 as Cesar Chavez Day, the goal was to connect the honor with a curriculum that would educate students about Chavez. Yet ten years later, it is clear that young Californians know little about Cesar Chavez, and that those raised outside the West Coast and Southwest know even less. Millions of Americans even think Barack Obama invented the “Yes We Can” rallying cry, unaware of its roots
With AB 2492, Ammiano Closes A '$7.5 Billion' Commercial Property Tax Loophole
By Dan Aiello
California Progress Report
The idea of a revision to the state’s property tax law - established with passage of Proposition 13 - is not new to Sacramento. It was born, say revision proponents, with the post-Prop 13 realization that what defines a commercial property sale would not
