Left Coasting : Plug and play democracy
Californian voters learn to live with constitutional gridlock
Columns
Classics : Go Dog.Go ! ( 1961) by P.D. Eastman
The Red Scare of the 1950s helped create this hymn to perpetual motion.
From The Hood : Relax, everything’s fine!
We’ll put the world to rights
Left Coasting : Wars for water
The battle to control California’s water
Left Coasting : Governor Jerry Brown, by default ?
The race to be the next Governor of California
From the Hood : Looking beyond the veil into news beyond our own
Looking beyond the veil into news beyond our own
Left Coasting: The Door That Swings Both Ways
California fails to cope with its crowded prisons
From the Hood : Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
Bullet Points Will Solve All My Structure Problems
Left Coasting: Home Discomforts in Berkeley
Away from home among the homeless in Berkeley California
From the Hood : Sorry, No Article This Week
Lyndon Hood – discretely proffers a cautionary tale
Left Coasting : In California, Education Just Doesn’t Pay
How California has screwed up the funding of education
From the Hood : The Irony of Satire
“Only if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” [Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic]
Left Coasting : Bus Trip to the Summer of Loss
Rosalea Barker reports from the US about California’s social and budgetary meltdown
From the Hood : How To Misunderstand Satire
satirist Lyndon Hood on the mechanics of the trade