A major story involving the largest public employee union in California continues to unwind like a soap opera – though a soap opera with...

Dave Rosenfeld is the executive director of the San Diego-based Solar Rights Alliance. He has been a community organizer for more than 20...

For the 2nd holiday season, Sacto Politico takes a step back from raw politics to ask another non-political question of a varied...

Last Saturday, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission issued its last set of draft Congressional district boundaries for public...

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

“Long-time” readers of the Sacto Politico (we are just 14 months old) know my brand of media criticism can seem sharpest toward the...

California is among the most progressive states in the U.S. This is reflected in Congress with 22 of the 96 members of the Congressional...

Robert Herrell is executive director of the Consumer Federation of California (CFC), a statewide non-profit that has been advocating for...

EDITOR’S NOTE (Nov. 11): Last evening, the Citizens Redistricting Commission released its fourth version of maps. At the Congressional...

EDITOR’S NOTE (Nov. 11): Last evening, the Citizens Redistricting Commission released its fourth version of maps. Much can still change...

Editor’s note 1/10/22: Due to Congressional redistricting in California, the number of the district Jones is running in has changed to...

Steve Woolpert is professor of politics at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California. Is California too big to govern? In our state’s...

California’s draft Congressional maps are changing fast. Saturday, Sacto Politico published our first distillation of the first draft...

A small tremor rumbled through California politics this week when the state’s Citizens Redistricting Commission released its earliest...

SEIU Local 1000 is by far California’s largest union of state employees with nearly 100,000 represented members and a $46 million annual...

Every election provides sort of an MRI snapshot of the health of the democratic process. Take California’s recent recall election. This...

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

Politicos throughout California are closely awaiting the outcome of the redistricting for federal and state seats. Per a decision last...

Following the landslide defeat of the $276 million recall, a prominent storyline has been how many state Republicans were in threadbare...

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