In the Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos, California, many residents work in the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook. The town boasts a median family income of $150,000 and is known for its upscale housing developments, which even now sell for $1 million a piece on average. The town is also a hotspot for marijuana-related violence. In 2005, police officers entered a violent gunfight on a marijuana farm atop Los...
...em to pay now. Best of all, many of the fears of financial ruin have been largely dispelled—employment and profits have not been effected. According to a study by Ken Jacobs, the Chair of the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, businesses have seen no negative consequences since the implementation of the HSF’s employer mandate in 2008: “the city’s growth rate across all employment sectors...
...inale of Mad Men, but the trauma of the series’s last “WTF” moment still flashes back like a suppressed childhood. Something wasn’t right as the scene cut from Don and family recovering from a calamitous milkshake spill in a California diner: Don was sitting on his bed in his New York apartment in deep contemplation. Questions buzzed in my mind: Where was my California sun? Was this a dream sequence? Alcohol-induced memory lapse? Would I ever se...
In this presidential election year, where Governor Romney became the presumed Republican nominee in May and President Obama is the Democratic incumbent, some states across the country are just now reaching state and congressional primary season. In June, California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, Arizona, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Virginia have already held their primaries. Except for South Dakota and...
...National Popular Vote plan. Under this bill, state legislatures pledge to send all of their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the overall national popular vote, ensuring that this candidate becomes president. So far, California, Maryland, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, Hawaii, and D.C. have signed on, amounting to 132 committed electoral votes. The bill will not come into effect until enough states pass it to b...
...il War, such as the Freedmen’s Bureau. He stated that affirmative action stems from the redressing of the legacy of slavery. Foner also criticized the legal system and particularly its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which changed the rationale for affirmative action away from that of affirmative action as a remedy for societal racism and racial inequality and towards the rationale that was later upheld in Gru...
...terms are coupled with the treatment of many petty crimes – like writing bad checks – as offenses worthy of incarceration. The ludicrously high prison population has beleaguered prisons across the country for years. In 2006, California declared a state of emergency over its prison system, which housed over 15,000 inmates in “gymnasiums, dayrooms, and other common areas not commonly designed as living units, frequently in double or triple bunks.”...
...ally wealthy states like Florida. There are, of course, more nuances to the practice of electoral college politics than pure numbers – after all, it is not likely that Romney will expend much political capital in New York and California, nor that Obama will put up a fight for Texas. Both candidates have already ceded defeat in many of the fifty states, for the simple reason that such states side so consistently with one party that any major attem...
...secession that began in the first years after Los Angeles, motivated by water-rights issues, first annexed the valley. Partially spurred by a backlash against busing in public schools, the 1970s movement was quashed when the California Legislature voted to give large city governments veto power over secession, no matter the will of the voters. The repeal of that law in 1997 was a breath of life for secessionists, who are now supported by a majo...
...Eagleton affair, his campaign lost its vitality. Commentators have noticed the same discontent that characterized 1972 in American politics today. David Broder of the Washington Post recently linked the Dean campaign with the California recall, arguing that both are manifestations of a desire for change. This restlessness cuts across party or ideological lines. For example, the California recall, though initiated by Republicans, had a fairly broa...
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