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What is it: Here’s another proposition to sell a $5.4 billion bond to protect our water in California. It’s aim is to keep our drinking water safe, make sure our water quality is to par, clean up pollution, and develop better public access to our waterways (like at state and county parks). What the Pro [...]

What is it: This measure would increase the penalties imposed on sex offenders. It would increase the distance that registered sex offenders would have to live from a school or park, requires a GPS system on the serious offenders, expands the definition of the sex offender and makes it much more difficult to release sex [...]

Some city has to be the most dangerous city in America, and that (dis)honor this year goes to St. Louis (apparently the folks in Camden, NJ, which were the previous 2-year holders of that record were celebrating!). While the Cardinals brought some love to the city that has seen its violent crime stats go up [...]

What is it: This initiative will sell about $4 billion in a bond aimed for disaster preparedness and flood prevention. Most of California’s levees are in the central valley, and this bond measure would earmark money (about $3 billion) to repair and upgrade those levees. The rest of the money will be split among different [...]

Every several years, I feel like I need a primer on the validity of the Bible. Amy Orr-Ewing provided that primer for me this time around with her book, Is the Bible intolerant? Sexist? Oppressive? Homophobic? Outdated? Irrelevant? (Title is basically the book’s table of contents) There was nothing really new in this book that [...]

What is it: A $10 billion to fund repairs and construction of school facilities (K-12 + Higher Education) What the Pro people are saying: The pro people are pointing out the dire need for money to (re)build our education system in California. We desperately need new schools and upgrades to current facilities to meet the [...]

What is it: This bond initiative will give the state about $3 billion in upstart money to invest in low-income housing, emergency shelters, and the like. It also provides money for downpayment assistance in certain cases. What the Pro people are saying: Housing prices and rent rates close the door on a lot of people. [...]

Here are a couple of stories I caught in the LA Times that are worth noting. I’ve learned to live that news from the motherland is rarely good news (unfortunately). The first story is one that highlights how strict Israel has become in allowing travel to and from the West Bank (and presumably Gaza). This [...]

What it does: If passed, this proposition will approve the state to sell $19.9 billion in bonds for transportation purposes–highway safety, traffic reduction, port security, and air quality improvements. When it’s fully repaid (in 30 years), this bond would cost California taxpayers about $39 billion. What the Pro people are saying: We have one of [...]

In light of the election season, I’ll be posting a quick snippet on my take of the different propositions on the ballot. I’m not sure if I’ll get to all of them by Nov. 7 or on how many I’ll actually take a position, but I’m sure if you read closely enough, you’ll probably get [...]