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Your District’s Party Registration

No “party time” puns, I promise. The law requires the Secretary of State to release registration numbers as of 154 days before statewide elections. She released them today. You can read in all the other news reports about how many Republicans there are, how many decline-to-state voters, yaddah, yaddah. But what you won’t hear from [...]

State Senate Maps Supremely Validated

The California Supreme Court confirmed that this year’s elections will make use of the maps drawn by the citizens redistricting commission. Today’s decision is here. A group called Fairness and Accountability in Redistricting (or FAIR, which is good thinking on someone’s part), requested that the Court — just for the 2012 election — either retain [...]

Digging for the Good News (But Not Too Deep)

Everywhere you look: bad news. Not here! Check out some reasons for tempered optimism.

How Many by 2020?

California’s population is set to grow by 11.5 percent. Details within.

State Receipts Up, But Enough?

State receipts for June are up and down. Will the budget hold?