25 results for "Peter Schrag"
Viewpoints: Will immigration reform squelch the welfare state?
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 12:00 AMWhen your child or your sister benefits from a program, you're more likely to support it than if the beneficiary is an "other."
Viewpoints: Here comes yet another school funding fix
Friday, May 31, 2013 at 12:00 AMEarlier this month, as an Assembly Budget subcommittee was preparing to re-slice Gov. Jerry Brown's local-control school funding sausage, state Controller John Chiang's office issued a scathing report about the mess in the financial prac...
Viewpoints: Is that the sound of ice breaking in the Capitol?
Friday, April 19, 2013 at 12:00 AMThere must be a law of political science linking the size of an organization to the centrifugal forces that tend to drive it apart.
Viewpoints: Knot still isn't tied for gay marriage rights
Friday, April 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMAfter last week's Supreme Court arguments on California's Proposition 8, most of the smart money seems to be on a ruling – you can't really call it a decision – ducking the big issue: Does the equal protection clause of the...
Viewpoints: On immigration, demography is destiny
Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:00 AMFor anybody who still thinks that we're being swamped by a rising tide of immigrants, legal or otherwise, or that our population growth is out of control, University of Southern California demographer Dowell Myers has news for you.
Viewpoints: New book parses the Jerry Brown enigma
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 12:00 AMMaybe the most surprising thing about Jerry Brown is that it's been more than 30 years since somebody's written a book about him.
Viewpoints: GOP's problems arrived in California first
Friday, February 22, 2013 at 12:00 AMFor those of us who've watched the transformation and meltdown of the California Republican Party for the past 30 or 40 years, today's much-discussed problems of the national GOP seem like déjà vu all over again. And the ca...
Viewpoints: Jerry Brown's big success: Lower expectations
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 12:00 AMDuring his previous terms as governor – from 1975 to 1983 – Jerry Brown liked to ask his fellow Californians to lower expectations. Judging from the enthusiastic response to his State of the State speech last month, and from his spike ...
Viewpoints: UC president had unheralded victories
Friday, January 25, 2013 at 12:00 AMYou have to say this about Mark Yudof's retirement from the presidency of the University of California: His timing now is a lot better than it was for his arrival some five years ago.
Viewpoints: Fixing the schools: The dream lives on
Friday, January 11, 2013 at 12:00 AMReforming California's convoluted school finance system – what former Sen. Joe Simitian called the Winchester Mystery House of school funding – has become one of the issues du jour in Sacramento. This spring we'll find out how ...
