July 2008

Immigration Questions II
Immigration Questions
California Fire Smoke Map
Computer Voting Machine Security -- Prove It
Anti-Democracy Conservatives
The Governor's Lottery Scheme - Bottom of the Barrel?

June 2008

Supreme Court Strikes Down "Millionaire's Amendment"
What Is A Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax?
Speak Out California Is Back Up And Running!
Does Arbitration Work For Citizens?
Cut That OTHER Spending!
Donna Edwards Says You Should Run For Office
Tuesday's Election - As Usual It's About The Money
Hillary's Victory Speech in Puerto Rico

May 2008

There Is An Election Tuesday!
Republicans Pretending To Govern
Private Greed vs. Public Good
Job Killers -- Or Just More Fear?
Budget Analyst Rips Lottery Borrowing Scheme
Failure to Support Progressive Movement Dooms Another Organization
Gambling On Budget - What If We Lose?
A Short Comment On The Governor's Lottery Borrowing Plan
Free Markets?
This Week's Kaiser Security Guard Strike and the Bigger Picture
Solving California's Budget Problems Without Taxes
Use Rebates To Help California Schools

April 2008

Is The Corporate Media Deciding This Election For Us?
The Middle Class Squeeze Is A Result Of LOW Taxes
Why Building Progressive Infrastructure Matters So Much
Tax Cuts Make Us Poor
Tax Internet Sales -- Just Like Local Stores
Hating On We, the People
Justice For ... All?
Conservation - A Call To Action
Why We Need Strong Unions

March 2008

Conservatives Opposed To Rule Of Law, Our Constitution And Good Education
Stuck in Atlanta 24 Hours - Airline Says Too Bad For You
Take Back America - Wednesday -- Where From Here?
Take Back America - Tuesday
From Take Back America - Monday
Oil Tax Defeated, School Budget To Be Cut -- What You Can Do
Choices on Taking and Giving Back
How Does This Help Democrats Win?
A Line In The Sand -- Stop Cutting School Budgets
Keeping the Progressive Voice Alive

February 2008

Reflections On Corporations II - Corporate Philanthropy
Reflections On Corporations
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No.6
Tax And Budget Priorities: Schools No, Yachts Yes
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No.5
Political Suicide II
Political Suicide
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No. 4
Still Counting
Primary Election Day
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No. 3

January 2008

Speak Out Wants to Reach Out
Comments
The Public Interest
Updating the February 2008 Voter Guide
Jackie Goldberg's Initiative Picks for the Feb. 2008 ballot
Exactly The Wrong Time For Spending Cuts
The 2008 Primary Election Voter Guide
It Is Time to Undo Past Tax Cuts
A Budget Shock Attack
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No. 2
"We can't afford Proposition 13 anymore"
Do Taxes Drive California's Economy?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.2 No. 1
Will California's leader lead in 2008?

December 2007

And A Progressive New Year!
Yes, but how do they do it with a straight face?
Fighting An "Emergency" With One Hand Tied Behind Our Backs
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 28
Random Thoughts for a mid-December Day
The Line at the DMV
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 27
An Initiative Process out-of-control
How Does California Develop The State's Budget?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 26

November 2007

Things CAN Change!
Exploring California's Budget
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 25
Do Tax Cuts Really Help The Economy?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 24
Too often closing the barn door too late
Big Money an "Insurmountable Opposition" to Democracy in California
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 23
The ever-busted state budget
Things that Everyone Knows
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 22
Keeping Big Business happy at our children's expense

October 2007

The Power of the Words "We, the People"
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 21
Governor's Veto of The Dream Act limits the Future for Many
IS Greed Good?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 20
The "Job Killer" Soundbite
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 19
Things Change When We Realize WE Are the Government
"Paper or Plastic?"
National Health care policy state-by-state?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 18
Do Taxes 'Hurt'? Is Government Bad?
Blackwater's "Drunken" Mercenaries Open Fire "Crazily," But Still Get New $90 Million Pentagon Contract

September 2007

While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 17
Working to repair a dangerously broken prison system
Hooray for the First Amendment!
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 16
What ever happened to the right to dissent?
If I had a hammer---nostalgia with the great PP&M
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 15
Cowardice and Fear of Honest Debate at UC Irvine
Read the Bill---or how I got through 700 bills in 7 days
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1, No.14
Senate Bill 974 and The Art of the Possible
The End-of-session Drama begins
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 13

August 2007

Job Killer or Opportunity to Help Clean Up L.A.'s Filthy Air ?
Speaker Pelosi on Being the First Woman Speaker
Beating back bad initiatives--one at a time
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 12
Women's Equality Day- How far have we come?
Celebrating Women's Equality through Workforce Justice
What do working women and their families want?
While California Dreams-Weekly update Vol.1 No. 11
Victory over alcopops, liquor industry targeting of teens
It's time for Civil Unions, at the least
Bye-bye Rovie
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 10
Summer Election Reform Adds Up To This: Get Out The Votes!
Obstinance or principle?
Trying to steal the Presidency---again!
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 9
America is Crumbling
Can We Count on Voting Machines to Count the Votes?

July 2007

Historic vote: California voters needed NOW to help raise fuel economy, curb global warming
The Governor's Birthday present--with love from his Party
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 8
GOP Budget for California Found In President Bush's Colonoscopy
Budget Crunch Time-Who is asking the tough questions?
West Hollywood Calls for Impeachment
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 7
No Second Grade Testing for our Children!
The Big Corporate Bullies Are At It Again
Lightblueline: Sending Out An SOS
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 6
Budget stalemate--Week Two
Are Charter Schools the Answer?
What Happened to the California Dream?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 No. 5
Speaking plainly
Happy Birthday to our once and future America
Has the U.S.Supreme Court officially reinstated racism in our schools?
An Inspired Week For Conservatives

June 2007

While California Dreams- Volume 1. No.4
Public Education---Is anyone in charge here?
Empowering California's Youth
Are You Contributing to Republicans When You Buy a Car?
While California Dreams- Weekly Update Vol.1 Iss.3
Raising Educational Achievement
Making Real the Promise
Killer cars flooding into CA
While California Dreams--Our new newsletter
How to fix the education divide- more beginnings
Green Blogging
While Rome Burns We're Looking at Paris
Back to the Bottom
Auto Industry stalls Global Warming legislation
It IS Class size, of course!
Whose life is it anyway?
The Republican Party Cages African American Voters
Global Warming Action Alert

May 2007

UCSB Student Detained After Homeland Security Interrogated Her Roommate
Take Back America coming up
Making state dollars go farther
Crisis at the University of California
Devious Debt Collectors get their just desserts
Attacking California's high school drop-out epidemic
Total Recall: Prison Reform Update
Where is the governor's moral compass?
The Catholic Church doesn't like Planned Parenthood
Privatizing California
Will we learn to fund progressive infrastructure?
Conservative Failure Day
Now we must fund reproductive health care

April 2007

I asked Hillary Clinton about California...
The "Head and Heart" and enthusiasim of California of Progressives is here in San Diego
Convention coverage roundup
Presidential candidates woo us--but will the honeymoon last?
A Call to Reproductive Arms
Healthcare moves to center stage
The Rogue Court and Reproductive Rights
Healthcare Battle Heating Up
Life after Anna Nicole Smith
Freedom smackdown part II: Andrew Sullivan edition
Wal-mart Corporate Espionage
The smoke-and-mirrors governor

March 2007

How to fix our schools--Do we have the will?
Fixing our broken educational system
What will really fix California's schools?
Liveblogging TALC
Cal State Faculty Strike Looks Like a Go
Voting to kill the troops - even here
Ideas and consequences: the case for interdependence
Woah! Tom McClintock on hate radio!
Everyone gets one house before anyone gets two
The Oilies are at it again
Crackling with new energy
Lettuce, Vioxx, and Cigarettes in a perfect world

February 2007

Seriousness
Cal State University dispute-Time to strike?
Obama and narrative
Getting hammered by the "right" (that isn't)
Celebrating great leadership
Secretary of State Deb Bowen off and running
Shame on the mainstream media
Random thoughts for a slow February
Mourning Molly Ivins

January 2007

Engaging the Powers, Part I: Five Worldviews
Update on Cal State University impasse
Not everyone found the SOTU address riveting
Roe v. Wade- What it means today
Roe v Wade- reproductive freedom 34 years later
Effectiveness, evolution and vision
Politics under the radar screen
Sallow Depressives on the march
The gleam in the Governor's eye
The impending Schwarzenegger health care disaster
It only took 231 years
The Governor's Party

December 2006

What a year!
Update on the CSU Faculty contract stalemate
Arnold as Centrist
Why to bother with netroots outreach
The Golden Dream of the Golden State
The New Legislature Begins
The Year At Hand

November 2006

Wither campaign finance reform in California?
Buying Democracy
Who will buy the LA Times?
Paying the people who teach: The Impasse at CSU
Did the Fraudsters Take a Substantial Vacation?
Progressive values control the state and national agenda
RootsCamp this weekend in SF
The Work We Have To Do
The short version of our election analysis
Over 1.5 million hits on our site...and counting!
Moral clarity
Get Out The Vote!
Awesome GOTV in CD4
Voter Guide in Spanish
Whose government is it, anyway?
McClintock and Strickland--Too Extreme For California-Failing to Protect Consumers

October 2006

McClintock and Strickland--Too Extreme for California--Threatening Our Working Families
Malcom Gladwell on Prop 90
McClintock and Strickland--Too Extreme for California-The Environment
McClintock and Strickland--Too Extreme for California--Womens' issues
Judge research thread
Ten Reasons to Support Phil Angelides for Governor
National field update
Our worst nightmare-California goes red!
"We had no idea."
Senator Sheila Kuehl on electing Deb Bowen
Underlying economic realities
Schwarzenegger veto bad news for environment, families, taxpayers
It's the philosophy
The 2006 General Election

September 2006

Voter guide up, Arnold at 44 and vulnerable
Why we link Bush and Schwarzenegger
Ann Richards - In Memoriam
The real bogeyman in the healthcare debate
The Republican Tax machine

August 2006

Day Four on the Floor
Day Three on the Floor
On the Floor again -Part Two
Floor action in the Legislature
Getting into crunch time
Don't let Big Tobacco supporters off the hook
We need clean money to clean up politics and our arteries
Let's Housebreak Big Corporations
Governor Phil
Crazy Dayz
Do more than vote
It's the new cruelty

July 2006

How about the politics of passion, instead?
Early polling and gubernatorial politics
Stem cells and the innocent
Friday smart growth blogging
Flashreport freedom smackdown
The Reconstruction of Governor Humpty-Dumpty
The 2006 General Election
Another blunder in the misguided War on Drugs

June 2006

Roaming the halls in Sacramento
Bipartisanship and compassion create results
More on the importance of labor
So what's holding up the budget now?
Same old budget battles
Unions 101
Foundations III: Ten progressive principles, a response to Russel Kirk
What does it all mean?
Today is the day - Vote!
Swiftboating of Judy Chu: Tobacco rears its ugly head - again!
Following the money: Prop 82
Sign the Progressive Pledge

May 2006

WineCamp wrap
Corporate Donors Continue Attacking Progressive Candidates while hiding behind front groups
Big money rolling in to hot races
Independent Expenditures: How corporations hide the ball
The Launch of our 2006 Primary Voter Guide
Temporary Setback for AB 2097
Tax debate: Angelides response
Foundations II: substantial freedom
The tax debate
Our kids, our legislature and the liquor lobby
Help get AB 2097 off suspense
The ad we wish Phil would run
Money, money, money....makes the ballot go round
What would you do?
Foundations: interdependence
Today without an immigrant
Convention pics

April 2006

Infighting? Not now!
Orwell is alive and well in America
One Step Closer to Restoring Voter Confidence in California’s Voting System!
Right-wingers control Republican legislators
The Bush Machine comes to California
Immigration and "something d-o-o" economics

March 2006

More on Battle Cry
Christian capitalist tools
The emerging progressive landscape
State elections officials sued over voting machines
This just about says it all...
The Terminator Fails Again
The eye of the beholder
A day late and a bond dollar short
Friday cat blogging
Ms. President
Pragmatic progressivism, illustrated
Crunchy cons
Friday Cat Blogging!
Blue dawn
Senator Perata not getting it again
Help fix the Gov.'s bond proposal

February 2006

Strapped
Moral cowardice vs. strength of conviction
This explains so much.
Here's the beef.
The greening of the left
C'mon in, Mr. Lucas, the water is fine
Give me a break
Frankly, we don't give a damn what Microsoft likes
No free lunch
How is this possibly OK?

January 2006

Keep Clean Money bill alive
Too futuristic?
"Schwarzenegger declined to take a stand"
They really just don't get it
Clean Money bill on its way to a floor vote
Dear Senator Feinstein,
"Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness"
technology and social goods
I smell a campaign commercial
Support Clean Money for California
Clean Money bill clears first hurdle
More spending, no new solutions
Arnold's bond plan won't solve our problems
Support Clean Money for Fair Elections
The 2006 Primary Election
Real change v. empty rhetoric
Why getting involved locally completely rocks
Privatization

December 2005

The Best California Posts of 2005
Greed and graft in 2005
The Exit-A-Sham
Announcing: California Speaks Out Blog Contest!
Help ensure reliable voting machines
CA-48th special tomorrow!
"She's not a real Kennedy, either"

November 2005

It's still a failed economic policy, no matter how many Democrats you hire
A picture is worth 1,000 words
Thankful I don't have Dan Walters' outlook on life
Governor scores "D" grade on racial equity
Revisionist history
Clean Money for California
It might be funny, if it weren't true
Stronger together.
Sweep.
Results
Live from Castro HQ!
Today is the day.
The Governor needs rest
Server traffic is a good thing
LAT telling the truth
Why California progressives must stand with organized labor on November 8
In search of the disgusted non-voter
GOTV quote
Phil Ting on the trail, and flickr
The playbook.
Pacific Edge.
Why should I care?
Prop 75 is just so very evil
Steve Lopez is irritated, too
It's going to be close...and you can help!
Save ANWR, and Harry's giving 'em hell
You are the best.

October 2005

Blogad update
motivation
Let's get this voter guide out!
Blast from the past
Wealth capture is not wealth creation.
Another widly successful No on Prop 73 phone bank
Even the corporate media ain't buying it.
We are being lied to.
All of us, together
Turnout is the core dynamic
Hope
Despicable!
New SUSA poll numbers
Stronger together
More on the middle class squeeze
All the propaganda that's fit to print
If you're still tempted to vote for 77...
Special election ground work and Howard in Hayward
More JoinArnold lameness
Get Involved!
Santa Barbara welcomes the Governor
We love Maria!
Money, money, money
A little humor on Props 78 and 79
Even McCain can't deal with Schwarzenegger's photo ops
Why we need to show up
Off center

League of Cities to endorse 76?
USC proposition info
Polling confusion
How to spin REALLY bad poll numbers

September 2005

The progressive revolution
Governor vetoes same-sex marriage bill
Welcome to the redesign!
P.S. If you can, please send more money.
GENUINE CORRUPT GOVERNOR!!!!***
The expectations game
A case study in corporate media failure
It's (almost) alive!
Schwarzenegger's foibles national news
More of the same: Schwarzenegger supports Prop 75
Political expediency at the expense of human rights
Disappointment ... Disgrace
Governor: Support equal rights for all
Democrats stand up for love
Reaching out to the people of the Gulf Coast
Cindy Tuck rejected by Senate
Three bills for a better California
A question of priorities

August 2005

Stop the foxes from guarding the henhouse
Two weeks?! That's ancient history!
More moonlighting in the Schwarzenegger administration
The importance of down-ticket

July 2005

Unions strike back
Initiative yo-yo
Call it off or not - it's time to fight
What did they know and when did they know it?
One down, five to go!
Quote of the day on PumpGate
We're calling it "PumpGate"
Consequences
2005 Special Election Voter Guide
Cutting contract doesn't cut it
Conflict of interest, anyone?
Where California needs to go
Equal rights bill makes a comeback
I'm crushing your head!
Read my lips
Strap in, kids!
Welcome to the blog of Speak Out California!

June 2005

The 2005 Special Election