The California Fix

News and Commentary on the California Crackup

The California Fix

News and commentary on the world of California politics, policy, and governance, the California Crackup.

June 14, 2011

The View from Mount Diablo

June 14, 2011/ Mark Paul

I’ll be celebrating the June 15 arrival of the budget deadline by speaking to the Diablo Valley Democratic Club in Walnut Creek. Full information about the event is available on the club’s site. Join us!

March 11, 2011

Boom launches

March 11, 2011/ Mark Paul

The Oakland Museum of California is hosting a launch party today, March 11, at 6:00 p.m., for the new University of California Press publication, Boom: A Journal of California.

Joe Mathews and I have an article in the first issue, and we will talking about California's future at the event. Details and RSVP are here.

The California Fix

In California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul provide clear and informed answers.

Their fast-paced and often humorous narrative deftly exposes the origins of our current political and fiscal problems—from the ugly 1879 constitutional convention to Hiram Johnson’s Progressive reforms to the Prop 13 tax revolt and its legacy of supermajority requirements and voter initiatives.

Mathews and Paul then furnish an uniquely California fix: innovative solutions that allow Californians to debate their choices, settle on the best ones, hold elected officials accountable for results, and choose anew if something doesn’t work.

Concise, lively, and provocative, California Crackup offers something new: a genuinely democratic operating system for the state.