TOP TWO in California Primaries, June 2012: By the Numbers; High Rates of Invalid Ballots; Perverse Outcomes; Major Parties Dominate. Washington, DC, 6/13/2012 — On June 5, California held its first “top two” primary in…
Posts published by “Bruce Anderson”
THE LOCAL ANGLE: A Contra Costa County prosecutor who had rape charges against him dismissed last year has sued the state, the county (of Contra Costa) and the city of Martinez, claiming he was the…
Given the choice, I'd prefer the real Stalinism over the hippie version prevalent on the Northcoast, no better example of which was Monday night's (April 2nd) Women's Voices talk program on KZYX, itself, along with…
Fort Bragg said goodbye to Vern Piver last Saturday. It was standing room only in the high school gym where one of the largest crowds in local memory gathered to honor the memory of this…
Arline Day-Chambers passed away Saturday in Ashland, Oregon. She was 94. “Nana,” as she was always known among her family, was a fourth generation Californian born to Lovell and Helen Hunter Hamilton and raised on…
The shy, sandy-haired man doesn’t match the groans and apocalyptic comment his name elicits in the halls of local government. “Total psycho,” says a program administrator. “Most likely to go postal,” another official says. But…
FOOTNOTE to the County’s elimination of the permit and fee portions of the 9.31 program under threats from US attorney’s office to County Counsel Jeanine Nadel. When members of the public asked what the rush…