Choosing Democracy

  SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE Dear Governor Brown,                                                 Jan. 31, 2011 In your State of th...

Sorry Tea Partiers -- The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs By Jim Hightower, AlterNet Pos...

 The  Financial Crisis Inquiry Report seems well researched and well written.  Here . The economic crisis was caused by lax regulation and b...

The Bee's editorial position is strange. Jan.27. here. here They  assert that the lay off priority process for teachers is wrong. They ...

Jerry Brown claimed again today - as he does most days- that cruel budget cuts must be made because the money is just not there.   here htt...

Obama’s faulty education logic: What he said and failed to say http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/poverty/obamas-stran-faulty-ed...

State of the Union : a change in perspective I found the overall frame of President Obama’s State of the Union speech   most interesting,...

In Writings of Obama, a Philosophy Is Unearthed Duane Campbell          The book Reading Obama may well offer some significant insights in...

For this week, in response to the State of the Union,   and the Republican message machine, we urge Progressive Alliance members to write...

 I just returned fro a Town Hall with Senator Darrell Steinberg  about the state budget crisis at the Belle Cooledge library in Sacramento. ...

Note: Michele Rhee opens a lobby operation and gets a front page coverage in the Bee and a photo.   She certainly is effective at gettin...

An important piece from Dan Walters. Prop.25 may actually help. Dan Walters: Vote margin on taxes key factor PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1...

It is clear that the California budget is in crisis and we can not simply cut our way out of the crisis.  Budget cuts and lay offs make ...

See the several excellent videos of King giving his major speeches at http://sacramentopa.blogspot.com/ It’s been a rough year for Mart...

The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education  campaign is now preparing for new debates around re-authorization of "No Child Left Behind...

  At the national level almost all of the projected deficit through 2020 will be the result of three factors: the Great recession, the ta...

States’ Budget Woes Go Deep Below the Surface New Brookings report shows seeds of deficit troubles were planted years ago, and problems may ...

Duane Campbell             The book Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition , may well offer some significant insi...