Below is a listing of all California Statewide Ballot Propositions on the November 2024 Ballot with explanations and recommendations. Proposition Title (Number)ExplanationVote#2 – Public School BondsAuthorizes $10 Billion in General Obligations Bonds for K-12 and Community College Facilities and Building Maintenance to be repaid over 35 years: - Provides matching grants to local school bond
No Labels can play an important role in 2024 even without the risks inherent in running a third party "Unity Ticket"fraught with unintended consequences.
Abortion bans, similar to rape and sexual assault are not about sex and procreation -- they are about male dominated power. But women are not helpless. Time to "fight fire with fire".
When did the elected representatives of this nation stop being servants and become our overseers? When did the thrust toward consensus building end and continuous confrontation become the obligatory norm in our public life -- dominated by most extreme voices at both ends of the political spectrum?
George Santos sitting in the House of Representatives is a national crisis. Generic “Congress” enjoyed a measly 21% approval rating in January 2023 public opinion polls -- after a 15 ballot whooping of the new Speaker of the House. Who -- in their right mind -- believes the House of Representatives, specifically the GOP House
President Biden's Executive Order (EO) forgiving up to $20,000 of student debt for past borrowers is not a solution to a $1.6 Trillion student debt problem. It is the fulfillment of a campaign promise blatantly intended to bring more "grateful" young voters to the mid-term polls this November. Young voters are traditionally not a significant
Recession – what recession? Even before the sun rose in Silicon Valley Thursday morning, the US Department of Commerce announced second quarter 2022 GDP had contracted at an annualized rate of .09%, the second consecutive quarter of negative growth – a traditional signal of the start of an economic downturn – a (dreaded) recession, if
Here are the numbers most relevant to the recent Supreme Court decision overturning of Roe V Wade 59.2 percent of registered voters (nationally) participated in the 2016 Presidential Election. 66.9 percent of registered voters (nationally) participated in the 2020 Presidential Election. A difference of 7.7 percent. If 7.7 percent more registered voters had turned out
Radical is not a synonym for conservative, nor even for reactionary; but the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V Wade is closer to the former than the latter. Fundamental to conservative thought among liberal democracies are the founding documents of the United States of America – the oldest living democracy. Those documents argue every
Ten years ago – in December 2012 – a mentally unstable 19 year old shot and killed 26 souls at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut – where 20 of those 26 were 6 and 7 year old kindergarteners and first graders. A week and half ago, 10 Americans were shot to death by a