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Founder-publisher, Democracy Local Columnist @ThePublicSquare Fellow @berggrueninst @GlobalForumDD founder #Coach ex @thecrimson @latimes @WSJ @NewAmerica

California & The Planet

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Joe Mathews

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Do you have a story of local democracy to share? Even the smallest, most intimate tales of everyday people governing themselves have much to teach all of us. If you'd like to share your story, Democracy Local would like to hear from you. Contact: joe @democracylocal .

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Joe Mathews

4 years

After White House officials learned of Hicks’ symptoms, Trump and his entourage flew to New Jersey, where he attended a fundraiser and delivered a speech. Trump was in close contact with dozens of others including campaign supporters at a roundtable event.

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At LAX, our govt is detaining 11 month old US citizen and green card holder mother 2 weeks short of citizenship ceremony, LA Times says

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Trump's plan to build a concentration camp for 47,000 people at Camp Pendleton, and another camp for 47,000 in Concord, ends all debate: it's 25th Amendment time. Beyond the human rights violations, only an insane person would try to build that much housing in California.

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You can leave the EU by a simple majority. If it were something really important, like local taxes in California, they'd have needed 2/3.

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This should be the prelude to a resignation from the Senate in January.

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Never thought I'd see Santa Barbara County declare war on England.

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God, if you were going to take something iconic from 1970s California, I really wish you had chosen Prop 13. #RIP #GlennFrey

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3 years

Gonna be a lot of tears shed in some small $2 million apartments tonight.

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4 years

It's great that our former governor @Schwarzenegger is doing this nationally. It's awful that our basic infrastructure of voting and elections--essential public goods—now need funding via private donations from rich people. #DearDemocracy @GlobalForumDD

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's institute gives Muscogee County elections office $200,000 grant

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2016 is to American politics what 2007 was to American finance.

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As an American, I find nothing so timeless and reassuring as the firing of cruise missiles into a Middle Eastern place I don't understand.

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6 years

This @GavinNewsom briefing on budget is so much better in 3 ways. 1. Gone are the Brown deflections; Gavin way more blunt. 2. very, very direct confronting of pension and retiree costs. 3. Optimistic spirit about trying to address problems of the youngest Californians.

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4 years

@CharlesFinch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. nothing else comes close

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Joe Mathews

8 years

Earth to @BernieSanders - The Associated Press is not corporate media. It is a nonprofit cooperative, of a type that you say you're for. @AP

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Joe Mathews

4 years

I'll buy drinks for any CA press corps member who can get this question answered at next briefing: Governor @GavinNewsom , what is the state's educational guidance on how much booze parents may drink while acting as homeschool teachers? @johnmyers

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3 years

This really is the worst time of the pandemic. We had the winning touchdown pass in our arms, and dropped the ball. And we know it. Now, it's not just our businesses shutting down. People are shutting down. The hardest but best response to this is kindness.

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5 years

It’s irresponsible to air these briefings. They are waterfalls of misinformation. If you’re going to show them, tape and add corrections first.

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Joe Mathews

4 years

I'm exploring a run for governor. My campaign would stand apart in its explicit rejection of common sense and any semblance of coherence. Rational, formulaic governance of California has failed; it's time to govern irrationally. Which might make me the man to meet this moment.

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4 years

It's really a symbolic move. With that 2035 timeline, it likely will fall to the Parliament of the Independent Republic of California to make it legal.

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BREAKING: California will move to ban new gas-only cars in 2035 — the most aggressive action Gov. Gavin Newsom has yet taken to combat the causes of climate change.

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Joe Mathews

7 years

Wyoming has 2 senators, same as California. And they wonder why we sometime rage against America.

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Joe Mathews

2 years

Reading the Thomas opinion in the New York gun case, and it is, beginning to end, insane. It says that judicial use of historical analogy should trump local democracy. Local communities in California should defy it--in the name of democracy, history, and public safety.

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Joe Mathews

3 years

Wait, California collapsed? Did this happen last night? It must have been after the @LAClippers game because it didn't make this morning's @latimes #CaliforniaCollapsingSince1848

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Do We Need 150 More Years of Getting California Wrong? | Connecting California | Zócalo Public...

California is a famously volatile place—lurching from boom to bust and from sunshine to natural disaster—but it’s nowhere near as volatile as the

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Caitlin Flanagan

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I’m not sure who benefits from the collapse of California. It has to be intentional because it’s so thoroughgoing and happening so quickly. But I can’t figure out the true engine and the reward.

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7 years

Outrageous: @TSA is inspecting people's reading materials at Sacramento's airport, by Julie Sze @SacBeeEditBoard

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Hands off my books, TSA. And leave my cookies alone.

The tradeoff between privacy and security seemed to make sense after 9/11. I was there when it happened and saw it all; flying is a privilege, not a right.

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Joe Mathews

2 years

The Roe story is not just about abortion or courts. It's about the failure of US-style democracy. 7 out of 8 national elections more people voted for those who would keep this right. And it didn't matter. America needs a new, modern, democratic system. Now.

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Joe Mathews

4 years

I don't care that much about Congress. But I do care about the everyday people trying to govern in our city halls, school districts and other local governments. And if Congress lets a violent attack on itself go unpunished, our local governments will face more similar attacks.

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6 years

The President is a con artist and tax fraudster. Extraordinary journalism.

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3 years

98 percent of eligible in Gonzales, CA, a working-class Latino town in the Salinas Valley, have had at least 1 dose. And this isn't an isolated example of #vaccination success. My new Zócalo @ThePublicSquare column

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Why California's Lettuce Lands Are Unlikely Vaccination Leaders

If demographics and geography really were COVID destiny, then Gonzales—a small, working-class town with a young, overwhelmingly Latino population in rural

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8 years

I'm not sure if I will accept the results of Dodgers-Cubs. I'll just have to keep you in suspense.

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8 years

Loretta Sanchez shifts between anger and smiles that have nothing to do with content of what she's saying. #Weird #CALSenDebate16

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5 years

On a Sunday evening, visiting that other Zocalo. ⁦ @ThePublicSquare ⁩ . #MexicoCity #DearDemocracy ⁦ @GlobalForumDD ⁩

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4 years

@jamescham @DavidGCrane @dscheinm Yes, David is correct, and it's outrageous. People around California should look at local ands school budgets for OPEB expenditures and debts. And people should demand those unnecessary benefits be ended before your schools or local services are cut.

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Wondering when David Duke might withdraw his endorsement.

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Don't worry. The Brits always say they're leaving, but never stay away for long.

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This isn't a game. It's a Kurosawa film

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"Half of California children have at least one immigrant parent." -- from Public Policy Institute of California's new report... And that's why so many of us Californians see the federal government's war on immigration for what it really is: a war against American children.

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6 years

Never gets old. #TunnelView

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4 years

And so the 2022 governor's race begins.

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Kevin Faulconer

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4 years

Californians are resilient. We can handle anything that comes our way. But it’s not right to ask people to stay at home, make them wait months for an unemployment check, and cut off their electricity — all at the same time. It’s unsustainable.

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7 years

Our crazy president, who commands the world's most powerful military and its nuclear weapons, says the problem is not guns but crazy people having access to weapons... I'd write more but my head is exploding.

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Joe Mathews

3 years

Glad that I live in a state that allows us the choice of whether to replace a leader mid-term. It’s a democratic right all people should have—and one I dearly wish we’d had nationally as a way to remove the last president.

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Joe Mathews

3 years

@cmarinucci @JonahDispatch @RonBrownstein @chucktodd Also, House speaker and House minority leader both from California. So is the vice president—at a moment when we have a 50-50 Senate and the oldest president in history.

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Joe Mathews

8 years

Davide Casaleggio (Milan, 5 Star Movement): we went from 0 to 25 percent of the votes in Italy, all by using the Internet #globlfor16

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Joe Mathews

4 years

Luck is the residue of design, Branch Rickey said. On that last play, @Dodgers had their 4th best centerfielder throwing to a sub-par defensive 1st baseman and their weaker defensive catcher, with their 3rd best reliever failing to back up the plate

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8 years

He just lost whatever chance he had of winning election. You do not attack fat people in America.

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4 years

(1/) My Zócalo Connecting California column this week argues that the current debate about making mayors stronger misses the point. What we need is to make our tiny city councils bigger.

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Madrid Has 57 Councilmembers. Seoul Has 110. Why Does L.A. Have 15?

If you want to make your California city government stronger, don’t make your mayor more powerful. Instead, make your city council bigger.

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2 years

Wonderful opening of @GlobalForumDD tonight at the world-best @mna_inah in #CDMX . Thanks to speakers, from Kampala to California, & our partners in #Mexico & worldwide for making it possible. Big thanks to @Schwarzenegger for a fantastic conversation.

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8 years

Davide Casaleggio (Milan, 5 Star Movement): online tool for ideas produced 419 proposals, 6 now legislation in Italian Parliament #globfor16

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4 years

Promoting absentee and mail balloting was once a great project of California Republicans... Now the party uses disinformation to undermine this vital democratic practice. It's voter suppression. And their legal complaint is just nuts. #DearDemocracy

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Ronna McDaniel

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I am pleased to announce that the RNC, @NRCC & @CAGOP just sued Gavin Newsom over his illegal election power grab. His radical plan is a recipe for disaster that would create more opportunities for fraud & destroy the confidence Californians deserve to have in their elections.

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3 years

What does it mean that @LorenaSGonzalez left legislature? Or that Tino Cuellar has departed CA Supreme Court? Or that Valley leaders like @AshleyCVCF & @MichaelDTubbs aren't in elected office? My column @ThePublicSquare

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Is Public Office the Best Place to Do Public Service? | Zócalo Public Square

Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Is the Latest to Resign From Public Office, Joining an Exodus of Talented California Leaders in Search of Real Impact.

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Joe Mathews

7 years

What Does Blue Mean? New @ThePublicSquare event @GettyMuseum 6/8 7p .

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4 years

This Pasadena boy woke up early on New Year’s Day, like always, and went to the famous corner of Orange Grove abd Colorado.

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I love Modesto

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6 years

The Dodgers blackout is forever.

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Bill Shaikin

6 years

To those asking if today's court ruling approving the AT&T-Time Warner merger affects the Dodgers TV blackout: No. The TV deal was with Time Warner Cable, since merged with Charter. Time Warner was a different entity. (1/2)

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4 years

(1/) Given up hope that CA will ever house its 150,000-person homeless population? Dubious that your town could reduce its homelessness to zero? If so, go jump in a lake. Elsinore or Tahoe will do. My @ThePublicSquare column

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How Two California Lakeside Communities Are Ending Chronic Homelessness—at Jet-Ski Speed

Have you given up hope that California will ever get its 150,000-person homeless population off the streets? Are you dubious that your hometown could ever reduce its homelessness to zero?

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2 years

Fascinating presentations of new research on #DirectDemocracy this afternoon at University of Lucerne during Day 3 @GlobalForumDD @democracy_intl

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4 years

My Zocalo column @sfchronicle is about the 21st century plague Jack London imagined for California and the world way back in 1910.

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Jack London saw a virus coming

Author Jack London wrote a short story about a global epidemic overtaking California...

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Joe Mathews

5 years

Since the media and the state won't tell you this, I must: Californians shouldn't skip the March 3 elections. It's not just a primary election for president. It's a general election for CA.

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March 3 Is California’s Chinatown Election :: Fox&Hounds

The Americans are not going to give us credit for taking our time. The deluge of anger against Iowa’s Democrats, for taking a full day to report the

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2 years

“True #democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the centre. It has to be worked from below by the people of every village.” —Mahatma K. Gandhi, 1948 @democracy_intl @GlobalForumDD @ThePublicSquare @ASU @mehr_demokratie

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8 years

This is shameful, illegal and unconstitutional action. It must be stopped now

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4 years

I've nearly completed my reading of full text of all statewide ballot measures in California. Why do I do this? Because one Californian should actually read such measures. Over 100k words in total. Looking forward to sharing some pearls #CAprops #DirectDemocracy

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Woke up this morning, and there was socialized medicine and no federal government.

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If you can't see, after the past 18 months, that your health depends on the health of all people who live in California, then I've got a property at 101 Ash in San Diego to sell you.

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Jeremy B. White

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. @Kevin_Faulconer rejects Medi-Cal for undocumented (which @GavinNewsom has expanded): "That's the wrong approach that the governor took. 100%"

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2 years

Have an idea for a talk, presentation, panel or workshop at the 2023 @GlobalForumDD on Modern #DirectDemocracy ? We'd love to hear from you--and see you in #MexicoCity . Read our call for proposals and use the form. Questions? joe @zocalopublicsquare .org

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5 years

It's deeply unsettling that Americans want to give all kinds of importance and weight to the political intentions of a mass murderer. The murderer's thinking doesn't deserve our time. What does deserve our time is preventing people from having the firepower to commit mass murder

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4 years

I have huge respect to Pastor Rob for his public service to Thousand Oaks and for his church leadership. But I really wish, for his own safety and the safety of his church members, he had made a different choice.

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7 years

Cheech Marin is still called a "cult" figure. But in reality, he's been masterful at finding, for decades, the beating mainstream heart of culture in the U.S. and in his home state of California - my col @ThePublicSquare

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7 years

Maybe American kids should stop going to school until adults take real action to keep them safe.

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Joe Mathews

3 years

It's frustrating to see so much time/energy wasted on redistricting. It's always going to be problematic, no matter who does it, as long as we stick to single-member districts. Stop beating ourselves up, and switch to multi-member districts with proportional representation.

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Mariel Garza

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3 years

Editorial: It’s time for Los Angeles to have a truly independent citizens redistricting commission.

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5 years

Pro tip: Take advantage of the media's coronavirus fear-mongering and head to Valley Blvd in San Gabriel now. Many great Chinese restaurants where you'd ordinarily wait are nearly empty. Have done this twice this week.

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5 years

The most important election in California on March 3 might not be the presidential primary. Fresno is having a mayor's race that could be a referendum on new directions in governance and politics there. My column @ThePublicSquare

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Why Fresno Is on the Leading Edge of a ‘Wave’ of Political Change | Connecting California | Zócalo...

Looking for the biggest wave in California? Go to Fresno. It’s not just that fast-growing Fresno is emerging as the Golden State’s next great city. Fresno

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3 years

Today’s lunch spot

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2 years

We're going to Mexico City! The 2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy starts in 156 days, and will run March 1-4. Registration will open soon. For now, sign up for updates. @GlobalForumDD @democracy_intl @ThePublicSquare @INEMexico @iecm

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4 years

(1/) My Zócalo column this week asks: Can South Los Angeles teach America how to lead? It's about South LA's transformation, about @RepKarenBass & @CoCoSouthLA and the true nature of leadership.

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Why South L.A. Has Earned the Vice Presidency

Can South Los Angeles teach America how to lead? That’s the promising question behind the news that Karen Bass is a top contender to be the Democratic vice-presidential nominee.

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2 years

In powerful opening keynote @GlobalForumDD , @VanderbiltU philosopher @RobertTalisse says that countering belief polarization means seeing democracy as including reflection & solitude @democracy_intl @ThePublicSquare

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Joe Mathews

4 years

(1/2) Reporters, we need to stop writing falsely about a justice being nominated and/or confirmed "before the election." We are no longer "before the election." The election has begun; people are voting. This nomination, if it happens Saturday, is coming DURING the election....

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Joe Mathews

6 years

If you are reading accounts of the LA teachers' strike that have good guys & bad guys, then what you are reading is unreliable. We Californians are all bad guys when it comes to underfunding education. This includes powerful teachers' unions, authors of much of the system.

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5 years

Smart oped @latimes from @KristNovoselic a well-known musician who is also one of America's most creative thinkers on democratic reform, on the basic time problems of California's approach to elections.

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4 years

I pray that what we saw tonight was not just the end of presidential debates--but the end of the American presidency itself. What more evidence does one need of the madness of putting so much power in one person? It's time for a modern parliamentary democracy please.

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7 years

"I was invented in California, and that's all I'm prepared to say" - Siri, answering my 6 year old's question about where she was born.

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5 years

I'm at terrific California Economic Summit in Fresno. It's amazing how many great things Californians are doing to make their regions better—and how little notice these ideas get from media, and how little financial support there is for such work. #RichStatePoorState @MoveCAFWD

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This is brilliant. And spot-on. Every Xer should read it.

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My Generation, by Justin E. H. Smith

Anthem for a forgotten cohort

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Joe Mathews

4 years

I'm embarrassed for San Francisco and California reading this interview. No person this clueless should be on a school board.

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The New Yorker

4 years

The head of the San Francisco Board of Education discusses the decision to change the names of 44 schools, including those named after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.

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Joe Mathews

6 years

This is my office next week -- the Palazzo Senatorio in Rome. And you can join me there at the free, public @GlobalForumDD #MyRoadToRome

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Joe Mathews

5 years

Just did a work meeting in shorts and t-shirt, then took a nice little walk in 75 degree perfect weather. Maybe a swim later. East Coast folks, trust your media. It’s brutal here

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Liam Dillon

5 years

While the sentiments expressed by @TheAtlantic and @nytimes today get at very important and seemingly irresolvable issues, it’s worth keeping in context that California regularly faces these kinds of pronouncements — like this one I remember from @TheEconomist a decade ago

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What a treasure he was--always out in the community, always teaching, and always full of the fire and passion that, in this sad era, are now out of fashion. And I'm sure Tommy is already giving a pep talk to the Big Dodger in the Sky.

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Los Angeles Times

4 years

Tommy Lasorda, who died Thursday night of a heart attack at age 93, bled Dodger Blue nearly his entire life, spilling it across every corner of the world. An appreciation by @BillPlaschke

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11 years

Congrats to @FHDaily on its 5th birthday.

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7 years

Amidst all the speculation, I want to let all Californians know I'm not running for governor. I've decided to I need to focus my time on what really matters in life -- driving my family to all their different things, and coming up with a column for next week.

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3 years

This is what happens when you don't prosecute property crimes.

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7 years

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't want my children going to a school where the teachers are armed.

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Joe Mathews

6 years

LA Times folks, I lived in El Segundo and enjoyed it. Great park, nice downtown, surprisingly convenient place. I recommend the Office bar and the El Segundo Fish Company next door.

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Joe Mathews

2 years

Eight unforgettable days! Thank you to @chdemstiftung and everyone who made it happen!

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Swiss Democracy Foundation

2 years

The 2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy #gfmdd23 in CDMX has ended: 2 Pre-Tour-Days & 4 Forum-Days brought together 200 speakers & several hundred democracy experts from 100+ countries. A excellent basis to continue working together - until the next Global Forum!

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Joe Mathews

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Join @ThePublicSquare this Tues, Sept. 29, 430p PDT/730 EST (am of Sept. 30 in Asia) to discuss #DirectDemocracy 's & #participatorybudgeting 's global rise. Moderated by @mileskathleen of @NoemaMag @berggruenInst

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Should Global Democracy Become More Direct? | A Zócalo Event

How are people using participatory tools to change their communities, and the world? And what are the future possibilities ...

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Joe Mathews

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Davide Casaleggio (Milan, 5 Star Movement): to create new electoral law, university study, plus 9 online votes by activists #globfor16

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Joe Mathews

7 years

Our would-be dictator congratulates Turkey's would-be dictator. A betrayal of American values.

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Joe Mathews

4 years

Purple rain, purple rain.

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Joe Mathews

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Good grief. If AG Becerra is a radical, then the word has no meaning.

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Manu Raju

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GOP Sen. John Cornyn, a member of leadership, weighed in on Biden’s pick of Xavier Becerra to run HHS, calling him a “radical.” “I think he will be controversial,” Cornyn said, citing his position on singlepayer and abortion. “Some of these folks are pretty radical.”

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Joe Mathews

7 years

Expanding Prop 13 savings isn't enough. Your property tax savings should be immortal - my Zocalo col @MyDesert

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Joe Mathews: California, remember that property tax savings paramount

Joe Mathews opines on the latest push to modify Proposition 13.

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Joe Mathews

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Wow. That is the official war call for us Gen Xers. So, to the barricades (with appropriate diffidence)!

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John Cusack

7 years

Fascism here- in America The noose is tightening around his neck -so be ready for anything- and never ever ever ever stop fighting them - till fascists are gone or in the ground …

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Joe Mathews

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It was interesting to visit America for a few days, but I wouldn't want to live there. #HomeToCalifornia

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Joe Mathews

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After 8 days, 200 speakers, two ambassadorial receptions, a Zocalo on the Zocalo and events across 3 cities of one fantastic country, the 2023 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is in the books. But the work continues. Thank you, Mexico!

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Joe Mathews

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(8/) You don’t build trust by turning mayors into tin-pot Trumps. You build trust by making local governments more responsive and representative. But how can a local government be rrepresentative if there are barely any representatives in local government?

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Madrid Has 57 Councilmembers. Seoul Has 110. Why Does L.A. Have 15?

If you want to make your California city government stronger, don’t make your mayor more powerful. Instead, make your city council bigger.

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