History should record the late 1970s as an era of pivotal socio-economic change in California — a new wave of international migration, a shift from an industrial to a post-industrial economy and a new baby boom. Political events also abounded, topped by passage of Proposition 13, but including collective bargaining for public employees, expansion of mail-in voting, a decline in major-party registration and the eruption of crime as a powerful issue. By happenstance, Jerry Brown Read More