Just as we are poised to deliver on the promise of providing health care for millions of Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget would cut funding to neighborhood-based, community-governed health centers. Our centers are the only cost-effective alternative to costly, overcrowded emergency rooms. Read More

It is common for House Republicans to invoke President Ronald Reagan’s legacy and compare their own political ideals with the great communicator’s. Now, many of those same Republicans are threatening to dismantle one of Reagan’s greatest and most enduring accomplishments. Read More

Whenever someone suggests that California’s public employee pension systems need reform, civil service unions react dismissively, often with attacks on the credentials or even the morals of critics.When, for example, a Public Policy Institute of California poll found strong support — even among public workers themselves — for Gov. Jerry Brown’s middle-of-the-road pension reform plan, the union-backed Californians for Retirement Security reacted thusly: Read More