When scandal engulfs a party’s endorsed candidate, questions naturally arise where that party draws the line for stripping an...

Quick quiz: Last month marked the 30th anniversary of the most recent U.S. Constitutional amendment. What was it? Answer: The...

“Accountability journalism” strives to hold individuals – usually the powerful – accountable for activities that, while legal, may...

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Last month, veteran Sacramento lobbyist and law professor Chris Micheli published a unique collection of 49 essays by current and former...

This article is part of SactoPolitico.com’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. For past pieces in the series, click here. Nothing...

Foremost, 2021 will be remembered as the second year of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but it was also an extremely busy year in politics –...

At the federal level, the term “campaign fundraising” is a partial misnomer. That’s because the majority of such funds does little to run...

A major challenge for achieving effective governance involves shrinking newsrooms. As far less about government gets covered, citizens...

The standard official portrait poses members of Congress like patriots in front of a U.S. flag. But with four House members from...

Last week, The New Republic published the results of my four-month investigation into widespread use of a previously obscure campaign...

On July 15, the U.S. Justice Department announced the latest in a long string of indictments against the giant dialysis company DaVita...

Last month, the two leading watchdogs of U.S. political fundraising announced their merger. The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) is...

Later this month, California state employee Richard Louis Brown will be sworn in as president of SEIU Local 1000 after upsetting longtime...

Henry Waxman served 40 years as a Democratic Congressman for Los Angeles. From 1975 to 2015, he carved a memorable legacy in health care....

Documentarian Alex Gibney opens his latest film “The Crime of the Century” in predawn darkness. (See trailer.) Members of a police...

While sitting on board of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) from 2013 to 2017 – including one stint as chair – native Californian Ann...

The Wall Street Journal and Washington Post recently reported that four major opioid makers and distributors are close to finalizing a...

This is the second of two articles in a series. Click here for part one. Last issue, a Sacto Politico study detailed the tens of millions...

This article is part one of two, and part of Sacto Politico’s ongoing “Shame of Our Campaigns” series. For other articles in the series,...