Posts by Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

COMMENTARY
The talking heads pretty much got it wrong. It was an anti-gun ballot measure — more than his race — that cost Tom Bradley the California governorship.

**Editor’s Note: This piece has been updated to include the results of a new poll released July 30.
On a January afternoon in 1969, Paradise was violated and the modern environmental movement was born.
Six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., a “blowout” erupted below a Union Oil Co. platform, spewing crude oil from drilling-induced [...]

On Tuesday, June 3, California will hold its state primary. Not many Americans—or even Californians — realize this. The Big One — not the major earthquake the state expects, but its presidential primary — was on Feb. 5, part of that electoral front-loading called Super-Duper Tuesday.
The state Democratic leaders championed splitting the presidential contests off [...]