This is the home of the 2024 Deciders Project. Our focus group respondents belong to demographic groups that will likely play an outsized role in determining the outcome of the election. We are interviewing a different category of voters each month.
Back in 2013, in a piece about elder-swindling Republican Assemblywoman Diane Harkey‘s successful race for a seat on the Board of Equalization, I wrote the following passage – a SEMINAL passage if I say so myself, which was celebrated by the…
Workers in the room described a familiar squeeze: wages that technically went up but still don't cover the basics. Diego Henry Jr., a 12-year Disney employee who works in parks attractions, said he earns slightly more than $21 an hour. “I…
Last week, we detailed the ongoing drama in Anaheim as Mayor Ashleigh Aitken’s chief of staff accused her of using slurs and drunkenness. We reached out to Aitken to see where the city goes from here. As she has done…
New Jersey has a fraud problem. And not just in its voter rolls. By now, everyone in America knows that New Jersey just found 6,600 noncitizens who were illegally registered to vote. About 400 of them illegally cast ballots. But New Jersey…
GOSHEN – Orange County’s new Health Commissioner Dr. Cortland Lohff the county’s issues, services and challenges when he takes over. The doctor, who most recently worked in the New Mexico Department of Health, spoke before the county legislature’s Personnel Committee on…
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA — Campaign spending accelerated in the Huntington Beach City Council race as the local police union poured nearly $100,000 into independent ads targeting incumbents who voted against raises and supporting their opponents, according to the Voice of OC. The…
Fue Xiong, who was elected to represent District 6 in 2022, posted his seven-page voter guide on Tuesday. Included on the final page is a comment about his recommendation for voters on Measure B, a 1% sales tax increase. Xiong recommended Merced residents…
This summer, I had a rare accident — a thought struck me. I’m OK, thanks for asking. The good news was some long-festering ideas surfaced. One idea I labeled “Swiss Army Knife Governing.” It requires something I’m not very good at:…
WEEK | 25 News Now Rain Chances Return Today Ahead Of A Gusty Friday Illinois Wesleyan expands direct admission to all 13 McLean County high schools Peoria hosts public meeting on $3.9 million parkway path extension project Peoria County Zoning Board of Appeals recommends…
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