Gov. Newsom: A ‘Solar Tax’ Threatens Your Climate Legacy
Esperanza Vielma, Ambrose Carroll and Francisco Moreno are founders of the Coalition for Environmental Equity and Economics (CEEE) and...
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Nov. 13, 2022 – Vol. 3, Issue 5
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Jeff Burdick
Nov 5, 2022
Analysis: Jury partially out on what early California voting data means
In political analysis, it’s essential to know the difference between tea leaves and dependable empirical data. Unfortunately, this is no...
Ben Testani
Nov 5, 2022
How to Turnout Young Voters Each Fall
A frequent election question received from readers – particularly Democrats – is how more young voters can be engaged and turned out to...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 21, 2022
Campaign money laundering complaint filed in Board of Equalization race
Four weeks ago, SactoPolitico broke the story about the ethically challenged Democratic Board of Equalization incumbent Mike Schaefer...
Ben Testani
Oct 21, 2022
Voters: Make 3 times a charm for Prop 29 dialysis reforms
Ben Testani is a 24-year-old digital strategist for progressive political causes. Based in Oakland, he also authors the Substack column...
Jeff Burdick
Oct 6, 2022
Before you vote, check out past S/P coverage first
On Oct. 10, counties start mailing 2022 general election ballots to 22 million registered California voters. It marks the close of a...
Jeff Burdick
Sep 22, 2022
Did Incumbent Democrat Schaefer give $30K to buy Republican support?
When scandal engulfs a party’s endorsed candidate, questions naturally arise where that party draws the line for stripping an...
Jeff Burdick
Sep 8, 2022
CA Controller candidate Lanhee Chen on fiscal audits, Taiwan & Kobe Bryant
Lanhee Chen is a GOP fiscal policy expert long associated with the conservative Hoover Institute and familiar to voters from his regular...
Justin Ha
Aug 18, 2022
As Californians & planet sweat, rooftop solar revisions stuck in limbo
The future of rooftop solar in California is uncertain. Efforts to revise the state’s landmark Net Energy Metering (NEM) program that...
Nick Pilch
Aug 18, 2022
In Newsom-DeSantis rivalry, it’ll surprise who’s better on rooftop solar
Nick Pilch is an environmentalist and from 2014-2020 was a Council Member in the Bay Area town of Albany, Calif. This included serving as...
Jeff Burdick
Jul 31, 2022
Midterm roundup: Kiley fundraising off concerns about radical associations
Friday night, South Carolina’s capital newspaper The State reported House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) swung by that state GOP’s...
Jeff Burdick
Jul 31, 2022
Obituary for Sacramento Bee election coverage
The Washington Post has the most memorable and consequential motto in journalism: “Democracy dies in darkness.” Adopted in 2017, the...
Pat Needles
Jul 31, 2022
How ADA compliant is your website? Digital accessibility lawsuits rise in California
Pat Needles is vice president of Equidox PDF Accessibility Solutions, an Ohio-based firm that specializes in helping organizations make...
Justin Ha
Jul 12, 2022
California College Republican on students, CRT & generational politics
Christian Lucia Hunter of Dixon, Calif., is the Northern Regional Director for the California College Republicans. After first attending...
Jeff Burdick
Jul 12, 2022
AD-5 candidate Rebecca Chenoweth on her husband’s healthcare fraud conviction
With 94% of the June 7 primary vote counted, Rebecca Chenoweth is currently in first place in California Assembly District 5 which...
Jeff Burdick
Jun 24, 2022
Can David (Dodson) topple Democrats’ unethical “goliath”?
The four elected seats on the California Board of Equalization (BOE) are the least powerful and least sexy of California’s constitutional...
Justin Ha
Jun 24, 2022
Thanks for the memorabilia! Reno to host return of political collectibles convention next month
Covid threw a wrench into a lot of national convention schedules. So it may be with a sigh of relief for political memorabilia lovers...
Susannah Saunders & Rebecca Elliot
Jun 24, 2022
Mission critical: CPUC can (finally) meet its mission by saving rooftop solar incentives
Revision of California’s rooftop solar program has received more guest essay submissions than any other issue in SactoPolitico.com...
Ed Millican
Jun 24, 2022
San Bernardino County Democrats unified behind pair of union issues
Ed Millican is an elected member of the central committee of the San Bernardino County Democratic Party and a California Teachers...
Jeff Burdick
Jun 9, 2022
18 y.o. Santa Clarita organizer on March for Our Lives & gun violence ‘dread’
This Sunday, June 11, March for Our Lives will convene its second set of nationwide marches against gun violence – especially in U.S....
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