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California’s Proposition 16: What Is It? Why All The Noise?

From their cor­po­rate web page: “Pacific Gas and Elec­tric Com­pany (PG&E), incor­po­rated in Cal­i­for­nia in 1905, is one of the largest com­bi­na­tion nat­ural gas and elec­tric util­i­ties in the United States. … There are approx­i­mately 20,000 employ­ees who carry out Pacific Gas and Elec­tric Company’s pri­mary business—the trans­mis­sion and deliv­ery of energy. The company […]

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Jerry Brown For Governor: My Take

This week it wasn’t much of a sur­prise when Attor­ney Gen­eral Jerry Brown declared he was run­ning for Gov­er­nor of Cal­i­for­nia once again.  You can reach his cam­paign web­page here.

The announce­ment had been expected for some time.  There are no other polit­i­cally sig­nif­i­cant Demo­c­ra­tic can­di­dates run­ning.   (The web­site Politics1 cur­rently lists three oth­ers: retired busi­ness­man, real estate investor, and San Diego econ­o­mist Richard Aguirre; non-profit group founder and Pas­tor Joe Sym­mon; and Fred Medill, a col­lege stu­dent and founder-operator of Fred TV.)

Why He’s Run­ning
Prior Accom­plish­ments High­lighted
On Grid­lock And Gov­er­nance
Expe­ri­ence
Opin­ion
Question(s) For You

Why He’s Running

In his March 2nd dec­la­ra­tion Brown said, “The polit­i­cal break­down in Sacra­mento is threatening(:) …”

  • Jobs,
  • Our schools and the
  • State’s credit rating.

… which is the worst in the coun­try … Our state is in seri­ous trou­ble and the next gov­er­nor must have the prepa­ra­tion, the knowl­edge and the know-how to get Cal­i­for­nia work­ing again. That is what I offer and that’s why I’m declar­ing my can­di­dacy for governor.”

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Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind Introduced

National Fed­er­a­tion of the Blind Applauds Mea­sure To Ensure Blind Peo­ple Equal Access to Technology

Wash­ing­ton, DC (Jan­u­ary 27, 2010): Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today intro­duced the Tech­nol­ogy Bill of Rights for the Blind (H.R. 4533), which will man­date that all con­sumer elec­tron­ics, home appli­ances, kiosks, and elec­tronic office tech­nol­ogy pro­vide user inter­faces that are acces­si­ble to the blind.

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I Cannot Say It Better

Clin­ton Turned Right in ’96 Speech, While Obama Plowed Ahead — NYTimes​.com

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Some­times, when I’m search­ing for the right words to express all my feel­ings about the cur­rent state of affairs, I get slapped in the head with some­thing writ­ten by some­one else who does it much bet­ter than I would have.

This can be […]