News From California Progress Report

Good Sunday morning, readers of the California Progress Report. I have major news--and although it is strange to write about oneself in a headline in the third person, I am in transition, and so is the California Progress Report.

On December 1, when the new California legislature is sworn in and after Assemblymember Nancy Skinner takes the oath of office, I will officially become her chief of staff. This will be my third trip working under the Capitol dome in Sacramento--having worked in the 70's fresh out of law school as Administrative Assistant to an Assemblymember and in the 80's as Legal Counsel to the Speaker of the Assembly where I reviewed the work of the Judiciary and Public Safety Committees among other matters.

. . . I also have the good fortune to announce that a California nonprofit organization will be shepherding the California Progress Report from being published, edited, and written by me to a consortium of different organizations who see the value of having a daily reporting of California state news and opinion in this age of the decline of the established media. We will have more details about that coming out during the week.