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Last month, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul of the New America Foundation came to Sacramento to promote their new book, “California Crackup: How Reform Broke the ...

Joe Mathews discusses why the California state budget fixes don't fix anything.

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In this partisan time, there's one reform all Californians should agree on.

We need to change the way we do candidates' debates.

Joe Mathews discusses The Whitman-Brown Debate and Latino voters in Fresno.

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On the core charge - that Meg Whitman employed an undocumented immigrant - she has nothing to be ashamed of. Plenty of Californians have done so, knowingly and unknowingly. If this makes her a hypocrite, so what? Immigration law is so thoroughly divorced from the human reality of California that most of us are hypocrites on this issue.

(cross posted at Fox & Hounds Daily)

"Who would you rather have a beer with?" might have been the deciding question in previous political races. The California governor's race is different. The state is a mess, and getting messier. Neither of the two leading contenders has a real plan - or any intention - of doing much more than managing the state's decline.

I'd been trying to track down the most-talked-about player in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign, but I didn't have a phone number and I'd heard he's too old to have email or a cell. I'd just about given up when the phone rang yesterday.

"It's me, the Surplus," the voice said.

"You mean, Jerry Brown's Obscene Surplus, from before Prop 13?" I asked.

Now a new book from California writers Joe Mathews and Mark Paul offers comprehensive solutions. Called "California Crack Up: How Reform Broke The Golden ...

Authors of the book, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul, filled the pavilion to give a clear description of what is wrong with California and how it can be saved. ...

Steel yourselves: you're about to hear a lot of Republican praise for, of all things, the Cuban government.

Yes, it's the next insane and deceptive talking point on the horizon, in California and around the country.

Proposition 13 critics such as New America Foundation senior fellow Joe Mathews often blame Brown for hoarding a budget surplus even while a backlash was ...

... two of the shrewdest California-ologists now practicing -- Joe Mathews, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and Schwarzenegger biographer, and Mark Paul, a former Sacramento Bee editorialist and deputy state treasurer, both now affiliated with the New America Foundation. In California Crackup, Mathews and Paul provide the best explanation we've yet had of the scope and sources of the state's governmental dysfunctionality. ...

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