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Why FPPC Should Expose Online Campaign Trolls 26 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
There is simply no logical or ethical reason to oppose a proposal, pending before the Fair Political Practices Commission, that would require candidates and campaigns to identify the people and amount...
Op Ed: Manning and Snowden Play Russian Roulette 22 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Hank Plante Special to Calbuzz The only person more upset than Army Pfc. Bradley Manning this week, other than Manning himself, is probably fellow leaker Edward Snowden. Manning’s 35-year-senten...
Filner, the Groper, is Worse than Weiner, the Wagger 19 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
As loyal readers know, we occasionally round up the Calbuzz Advisory Board of Leading Authorities on Practically Everything to share their wisdom about the most pressing political, ethical and theolog...
Sacto Scandals: Ex-Fed Prosecutor on Corruption 5 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Robert B. Gunnison Special to Calbuzz A quarter century later, David Levi still savors the moment. Listening to a secretly recorded conversation, Levi heard state Sen. Alan Robbins, D-Van Nuys, ...
Red States Fixin’ to Gut Progressive California Laws 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Chuck McFadden Special to Calbuzz We Californians have been pretty smug about it for years now — even decades. But it all may be coming to an end. I’m talking about our laws addressing climate...
Pervs Cling to Power While a Gassy Cop Wants Cash 29 Jul 2013 | 12:01 pm
On one coast, we have a prick of a mayor and on the other coast we have a would-be mayor obsessed by his prick. It’s hard to say who’s the creepiest perv: San Diego Mayor Bob Filner or New York mayora...
Larry Jinks: How Politics Has Decayed Over 70 Years 25 Jul 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Larry Jinks Special to Calbuzz My old friend and colleague Phil Trounstine greeted me with a question: “How long have you been following politics in this country? Sixty years?” “More like 70,”...
Why Isn’t Darrell Issa In Jail? 8 Jul 2013 | 12:01 pm
As we watch U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, whom Calbuzz first got to know during the 1998 Republican primary for U.S. Senate (won by Matt Fong, who later lost to Sen. Barbara Boxer), we keep wondering why ou...
Prop. 8 and DOMA: What Victory Means (and Doesn’t) 27 Jun 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Hank Plante Special to Calbuzz PALM SPRINGS — The only people happier than gay and lesbian couples in California today are the hotel owners, caterers and wedding planners in popular gay tourist d...
‘Bay Citizen’ Deal: A Case of Local News Decline 24 Jun 2013 | 12:01 pm
By Robert B. Gunnison Special to Calbuzz On May 26, 2010, Warren Hellman, the banjo-picking San Francisco financier-philanthropist, mounted the stage at the Great American Music Hall to announce wit...
