College in California: Better, or More, or Other?
By Peter SchragBy now it’s pretty clear that not only is the California’s 50 year-old Master Plan broken but that the state’s whole higher education system faces a set of critical choices in direction, mission and funding:
Chose elitist excellence over access, especially at Berkeley, UCLA and maybe UC San Diego?
Or, greatly expand access to meet California’s impending shortage of trained people, as recommended in last week’s report from PPIC, the Public Policy Institute of California? Or create a whole new profit-making University of California “cyber campus” offering UC courses and degrees through the Internet and other new technologies all over the world?
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Prop 16 - A Monopoly Wants To Stay That Way
By Dave JohnsonProposition 16 is being sold -- and sold, and sold, and sold -- as a "right to vote." TheProp 16 website makes it sound so reasonable,
The Effect of the Oil Rig Disaster on California Politics
By Brian LeubitzOver at CalBuzz, they're taking a look at how the Louisiana oil rig explosion might affect the Tranquillion Ridge project, coastal drilling, and the political landscape in general:
Now, the metastasizing oil spill* in the Gulf of Mexico, and the apparent loss of the lives of at least 11 oil workers that followed a blow-out on a rig on Tuesday night - Earth Day -