Something new is coming, not just a blog, a website, and a podcast. Real print journalism in community-based newspapers with real readers and accountability that only traditional journalism created when having content meant more than just a place to throw random thoughts. Remember when you were careful, intentional, when you took pictures with a non-digital camera? There were only 24 pictures on the roll of film. The same can be said of the words that we use when we have to p

Thank you, Paul Scholl, Publisher of the Messenger Publishing Group of Newspapers. The 1st Amendement protects us all when good men engage in America.

California is one of 24 states that allow voters to initiate laws. Ochlocracy is defined as mob rule. Ronald Reagan used the term "mobocracy" in a 1968 speech referencing Pericles, stating: “When democracy in ancient Athens was becoming 'mobocracy,' Pericles warned, 'The man who takes no interest in public affairs is not a man who minds his own business; we say he has no business being here at all.'" Warning that without active, informed participation, direct democratic tools

He was famous for his movie quote, “I’ll be back”. Well, he’s back. Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger & Lt. Gov Abel Maldonado played a central role in advancing California Proposition 14 in 2010. As governor at the time, he strongly supported the shift to a “top-two” open primary system as part of his broader push for political reform in California. Schwarzenegger argued that allowing all voters to participate in a single primary would reduce partisan gridlock, empower