Can California Bundle Its Bureaucracy Into a Single Handy Website?
A One-Stop Shop for Government Services Is One of the Oldest and Most Repeated Ideas. It’s Also an Impossible Dream.
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1.2 Million Passengers. One Single Track.
California May Not Need That $68-Billion Bullet Train. But It Sure As Heck Needs More Rail Capacity.
I’m not a big fan of trains, but my oldest son, Ben, 4, loves them. He’d been lobbying to go on a “big train trip,” and his school would be …
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My Doubts About Single-Payer Just Show I’m Sick in the Head
California's Newest Litmus Test Requires Support of Government Healthcare—or Else
I’m so disappointed in myself.
I really should be 100 percent supportive of the effort to establish a single-payer health system in California. Because all the best Californians are for it. …
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Why California Keeps Failing to Grade Its Schools
The State Is Inexcusably Late in Delivering a Revamped Public School Index
It’s a California educational reality worthy of Kafka. Our state’s leaders keep asking parents and communities to take bigger roles in making local schools better—even as those same leaders keep …
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California Sticks Its Schoolkids’ Futures in a Vise
Even with Record Education Funding, Escalating Retirement Costs and Expensive New Demands Have Brought School Districts to the Brink
Don’t squeeze your kids too hard as you send them off to another school year, because the state of California is already squeezing your kids hard enough to hurt their …